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A video from a recent field experiment. The robot equipped with a compass and GPS autonomously collects data from wireless sensors. For more info, please visit the project page.
Researchers at the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication
Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan have recently developed a proof-of-concept
system showcasing the capabilities of ubiquitous networked robot
systems for social robotics applications targeted towards assisting the
elderly.
A recent trend in robotics generalizes the notion of a "robotic system" to include distributed networked systems consisting of robots, sensors, small devices, and software agents. Witness of this trend is the emergence of new areas like Networked Robots and Ubiquitous Robotics. A complementary trend in pervasive computing extends the notion of "pervasive computer system" to include devices that interact with the physical world through sensors and actuators. Witnesses of this trend are the areas of Cyber-Physical Systems and Cooperating Objects. Unfortunately, work along these two tr
Networked mobile robots will have far reaching technological impact. It
is envisioned that groups of autonomous robots will collaborate using
wireless radios to allow large-scale sensing for environmental
monitoring, reconnaissance and surveillance. They will also provide
on-demand communication infrastructure for search and rescue and other
emergency response operations. A key challenge in realizing these
systems is maintaining network-wide communication as robots constantly
gain and lose links while moving. Further, the changing network
This workshop will bring together researchers in all areas of pursuit/evasion and search. This
includes (but is not limited to) geometric approaches, probabilistic
optimization, graph theoretic search, decision theoretic planning, and
adversarial search.
The primary focus will be on multi-robot search,
which includes unmanned ground (UGVs), aerial (UAVs), surface (USVs),
and underwater (UUVs) vehicles, as well as heterogeneous search teams
in both outdoor and indoor environments. Various sensors, including
The traditional approach to provide network connectivity is to deploy a network of stationary wireless routers which cover the entire area of interest. We can use the mobility and communication capabilities of mobile robots to provide appealing solutions where stationary networks might be costly if not infeasible.
This is my master thesis, and it is a module under the EU sponsored
reconfigurable modular robotics research project called SYMBRION [www.symbrion.eu]. The project was developed at the IPR [Institute for Process control and Robotics], Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany. The main goal of the SYMBRION project is to develop robots that are capable of operating as a large swarm of robots
as well as building large organisms, by connecting individual robots together, for investigating and developing
novel principles of evolution and adaptation for symbiotic organisms.
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