Algorithms and Software/Hardware Infrastructure for Distributed Miniature Robots
http://www.cts.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2007116
Record Type: DOT
The development of large-scale robot teams has been prohibitive for a number of reasons. The complexity of such systems has been hard to simulate, especially in the case of a many to one relationship between a marsupial robot and the robots it can deploy. Additionally, the construction of physical systems can be expensive to implement and maintain. However, there is a number of scenarios in which large scale distributed teams are advantageous such as urban search and rescue, biological or chemical release monitoring, or distributed surveillance and reconnaissance. Distributed robot teams are often able to leverage the power, computational, and locomotive capabilities of a larger system to transport, coordinate, and control miniature robots which may carry more specialized sensing capabilities into areas that are spatially restrictive. As a result, this grant pursues research into a hardware/software infrastructure to improve robotic response capabilities in the case of robot teams and proposes some innovative robot designs that depart from the shape and functionality constraints of the initial platform.
Start date: 2007/5/15
End date: 2010/4/30
Status: Active
Secondary Number: CTS-2007116
Total Dollars: 225000
Source Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date Added: 08/01/2008
Index Terms: Robotics, Robots, Mobile robots, Software packages, Control devices, Technological innovations, Infrastructure, Research projects,
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Center for Transportation Studies
cts@umn.edu
200 Transportation and Safety Building
511 Washington Avenue S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA
Phone: (612) 626-1077
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Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos
Phone: (612) 625-0163
Email: papan001@cs.umn.edu
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