Download or read book Robotic Testbed for Multi robot System written by Xiaolei Hou and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents the design and developments of robotic and virtual SWARM testbeds within SWARM Laboratory at the Australian National University. Some experimental works and theoretical outcomes are also included as parts of thesis research. These two testbeds aim to implement the active researches within System and Control Group in ANU on multi-agent systems, especially on formation control, onto physical robots and improve the algorithms practically by making comparisons of the experimental results from robotic and virtual testbeds. Due to the lack of sensing and communicating capabilities of the physical robots, an alternative approach, which deploys visual aid, networked communication and remote control, is proposed to provide localization capabilities for agents to achieve the distributed control system scheme of robotic testbed. While, the virtual testbed are capable to conduct self-localization and inter-agent communication, hence, a different distributed system approach is proposed. A series of various drive modes are developed to simplify the process of implementing Matlab simulations and to improve algorithms' performance. Then a novel method is presented for future use of these two testbed, which enables quick implementations on testbeds with a few modifications on Matlab simulation codes. At last, theoretical research on the development of a cooperative shadowing system is presented, and a speed only approach within this framework is proposed and investigated on the virtual testbed system.
Download or read book A Remote Integrated Testbed for Cooperating Objects written by Jose Ramiro Martinez-de Dios and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testbeds are gaining increasing relevance in research domains and also in industrial applications. However, very few books devoted to testbeds have been published. To the best of my knowledge no book on this topic has been published. This book is particularly interesting for the growing community of testbed developers. I believe the book is also very interesting for researchers in robot-WSN cooperation. This book provides detailed description of a system that can be considered the first testbed that allows full peer-to-peer interoperability between heterogeneous robots and ubiquitous systems such as Wireless Sensor Networks, camera networks and pervasive computing systems. The system architecture includes modules that allows full bidirectional communication between robots and WSN. One robot can The book describes the current state of the art in development of testbeds integrating Cooperating Object technologies. It describes in detail the testbed specification and design using requirements extracted from surveys among experts in robotics and ubiquitous systems in academia and industry. The book also describes the testbed novel architecture and its hardware and software components. Moreover, it includes details on user support tools to facilitate its use such as remote use using a virtual private network and sets of functionalities of interest for members from the robotics, WSN and robot-WSN communities. Finally, the book illustrates its capabilities and potentialities describing the implementation of some of the experiments that have been performed. Examples from the robotics, WSN and robot-WSN communities are described.
Download or read book Implementation of a Multiple Robot Frontier Based Exploration System as a Testbed for Battlefield Reconnaissance Support written by Patrick A. Hillmeyer and published by . This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future military battlefields will see smaller forces responsible for ever increasing geographical areas. In addition, future conflicts will occur more often in urban or built-up areas. Both of these trends argue for some type of augmentation for initial reconnaissance, continued observation, and control of lines of communication and other key terrain features. Multisensor systems, mounted on a variety of robotic platforms, can provide this type of battlefield support where it is needed most. However, before costly decisions concerning the details of such systems can be made, basic research needs to be conducted regarding their most effective composition and utilization. Prior to this time all multiple robot studies at this institution had only taken place in simulated environments. This thesis implements a real-world multiple robot system that uses a technique known as frontier-based exploration to explore and map a laboratory or office environment. In doing so, many previously hidden aspects of multiple robot systems, unnoticeable in simulation-only studies, become evident The results developed here are compared to results obtained elsewhere involving other robotic platforms. This research lays the foundation for future research involving multiple robots interacting as a system in a real-world environment and acting towards a common or shared goal.
Download or read book Development of a Multi robot Testbed for Direct Human swarm Interaction written by Venkata Satya Kiran Maridi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robotic swarms are well suited for missions that involve covering large areas such as environmental monitoring, search-and-rescue operations, as well as those that require fusing information from multiple sources such as target tracking and machine inspection. However, navigating a swarm of robots effectively requires performing higher-level functions that are typically executed by humans such as commanding them to stay close and guiding them along with a preplanned route. In this context, the ability of multiple robots to stay together autonomously significantly reduces the cognitive load on a human operator. The goal of this thesis is to design and build a multi-robot testbed for studying human-swarm interaction. The specific objective of this research is to use methods from simulation-based design to estimate the control parameters required for robust operation of the robots. A consensus algorithm is implemented on simulated unicycle agents to keep them within sight of each other, as they follow a human leader. The algorithm is augmented with features to match a real-world implementation including realistic occlusion of swarm members in the presence of obstacles and collision handling. Search strategies are incorporated to reduce instances where a robot can be lost forever. Following an exhaustive simulation exercise, the control gains that reveal the best performance in terms of swarm connectedness and the ability to reach a goal location are further assessed in terms of their sensitivity to sensor noise. Finally, the approach is implemented and tested on an iRobot Create 2 testbed that consists of six robots monitored using an array of wide-angle web cameras in a large laboratory environment with obstacles. In a true decentralized architecture, the robots are instrumented with a microcontroller and a web camera to follow each other using vision-based cues only without any external reference.
Download or read book 2020 IEEE Andescon written by IEEE Staff and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANDESCON is the biannual Technical and Scientific Conference of the Andean Council of the IEEE that brings together IEEE professionals and scientists from the Andean countries The tenth edition of this IEEE event will be held in the wonderful city of Quito in Ecuador As of 2019, about 1,978,376 people lived there Quito is the second largest city in Ecuador after Guayaquil The Historic Center of Quito, Ecuador is one of the largest, least changed and best preserved historic centers in the Americas Quito was designated a World Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1978 It is the first city to be honored in such a way
Download or read book Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems written by Alcherio Martinoli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed robotics is a rapidly growing, interdisciplinary research area lying at the intersection of computer science, communication and control systems, and electrical and mechanical engineering. The goal of the Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) is to exchange and stimulate research ideas to realize advanced distributed robotic systems. This volume of proceedings includes 43 original contributions presented at the Tenth International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2010), which was held in November 2010 at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. The selected papers in this volume are authored by leading researchers from Asia, Europa, and the Americas, thereby providing a broad coverage and perspective of the state-of-the-art technologies, algorithms, system architectures, and applications in distributed robotic systems. The book is organized into four parts, each representing one critical and long-term research thrust in the multi-robot community: distributed sensing (Part I); localization, navigation, and formations (Part II); coordination algorithms and formal methods (Part III); modularity, distributed manipulation, and platforms (Part IV).
Download or read book Autonomous Mobile Robots and Multi Robot Systems written by Eugene Kagan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a theoretical and practical guide to the communication and navigation of autonomous mobile robots and multi-robot systems This book covers the methods and algorithms for the navigation, motion planning, and control of mobile robots acting individually and in groups. It addresses methods of positioning in global and local coordinates systems, off-line and on-line path-planning, sensing and sensors fusion, algorithms of obstacle avoidance, swarming techniques and cooperative behavior. The book includes ready-to-use algorithms, numerical examples and simulations, which can be directly implemented in both simple and advanced mobile robots, and is accompanied by a website hosting codes, videos, and PowerPoint slides Autonomous Mobile Robots and Multi-Robot Systems: Motion-Planning, Communication and Swarming consists of four main parts. The first looks at the models and algorithms of navigation and motion planning in global coordinates systems with complete information about the robot’s location and velocity. The second part considers the motion of the robots in the potential field, which is defined by the environmental states of the robot's expectations and knowledge. The robot's motion in the unknown environments and the corresponding tasks of environment mapping using sensed information is covered in the third part. The fourth part deals with the multi-robot systems and swarm dynamics in two and three dimensions. Provides a self-contained, theoretical guide to understanding mobile robot control and navigation Features implementable algorithms, numerical examples, and simulations Includes coverage of models of motion in global and local coordinates systems with and without direct communication between the robots Supplemented by a companion website offering codes, videos, and PowerPoint slides Autonomous Mobile Robots and Multi-Robot Systems: Motion-Planning, Communication and Swarming is an excellent tool for researchers, lecturers, senior undergraduate and graduate students, and engineers dealing with mobile robots and related issues.
Download or read book Multi Robot Systems written by and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robotics is an important part of modern engineering involving electricity and electronics, computers, mathematics, and mechanism design. In recent years, in addition to serial robots, multi-robot systems have begun to attract the attention of students, academics, and industry workers. This interest has directly impacted the development of novel theoretical research areas and products. This book explores new developments in multi-robot systems, such as trajectory planning, control algorithms, and programming.
Download or read book Multi Robot Systems From Swarms to Intelligent Automata Volume III written by Lynne E. Parker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume documents recent cutting-edge developments in multi-robot systems research. This volume is the result of the Third International workshop on Multi-Robot Systems that was held in March 2005 at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. This workshop brought together top researchers working in areas relevant to designing teams of autonomous vehicles, including robots and unmanned ground, air, surface, and undersea vehicles. The workshop focused on the challenging issues of team architectures, vehicle learning and adaptation, heterogeneous group control and cooperation, task selection, dynamic autonomy, mixed initiative, and human and robot team interaction. A broad range of applications of this technology are presented in this volume, including UCAVS (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles), micro-air vehicles, UUVs (Unmanned Underwater Vehicles), UGVs (Unmanned Ground vehicles), planetary exploration, assembly in space, clean-up, and urban search and rescue. This proceedings volume represents the contributions of the top researchers in this field and serves as a valuable tool for professionals in this interdisciplinary field.
Download or read book Multi Robot Systems From Swarms to Intelligent Automata Volume III written by Lynne E. Parker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume documents recent cutting-edge developments in multi-robot systems research. This volume is the result of the Third International workshop on Multi-Robot Systems that was held in March 2005 at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. This workshop brought together top researchers working in areas relevant to designing teams of autonomous vehicles, including robots and unmanned ground, air, surface, and undersea vehicles. The workshop focused on the challenging issues of team architectures, vehicle learning and adaptation, heterogeneous group control and cooperation, task selection, dynamic autonomy, mixed initiative, and human and robot team interaction. A broad range of applications of this technology are presented in this volume, including UCAVS (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles), micro-air vehicles, UUVs (Unmanned Underwater Vehicles), UGVs (Unmanned Ground vehicles), planetary exploration, assembly in space, clean-up, and urban search and rescue. This proceedings volume represents the contributions of the top researchers in this field and serves as a valuable tool for professionals in this interdisciplinary field.
Download or read book Robotics written by Nicholas Roy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robotics: Science and Systems VIII spans a wide spectrum of robotics, bringing together contributions from researchers working on the mathematical foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and analysis of robotics systems.
Download or read book Concepts Applications Experimentation and Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks written by Hossam Mahmoud Ahmad Fahmy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this hands-on textbook pursues the focus on the principles of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), their applications, their protocols and standards, and their analysis and test tools; a meticulous care has been accorded to the definitions and terminology. To make WSNs felt and seen, the adopted technologies as well as their manufacturers are presented in detail. In introductory computer networking books, chapters sequencing follows the bottom up or top down architecture of the seven layers protocol. This book is some more steps after, both horizontally and vertically, the view and understanding are getting clearer, chapters ordering is based on topics significance to the elaboration of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) concepts and issues. This book is intended for a wide audience, it is meant to be help and motivate, for both the senior undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and practitioners; concepts and WSNs related applications are laid out, research and practical issues are backed by appropriate literature, and new trends are put under focus. For senior undergraduate students, it familiarizes with conceptual foundations, applications and practical projects implementations. For graduate students and researchers, energy-efficient routing protocols, transport layer protocols and cross-layering protocols approach are presented. Testbeds and simulators provide a must follow emphasis on the analysis methods and tools for WSNs. For practitioners, besides applications and deployment, the manufacturers and components of WSNs at several platforms and testbeds are fully explored.
Download or read book Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics V written by Jean-Daniel Boissonnat and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-09-11 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected contributions to the Workshop WAFR 2002, held December 15-17, 2002, Nice, France. This fifth biannual Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics focuses on algorithmic issues related to robotics and automation. The design and analysis of robot algorithms raises fundamental questions in computer science, computational geometry, mechanical modeling, operations research, control theory, and associated fields. The highly selective program highlights significant new results such as algorithmic models and complexity bounds. The validation of algorithms, design concepts, or techniques is the common thread running through this focused collection.
Download or read book Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control Automation written by Masoud Mohammadian and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliable and straightforward, this text has helped thousands of students learn to write well. Jean Wyrick's rhetorically organized STEPS TO WRITING WELL WITH ADDITIONAL READINGS is known for its student-friendly tone and the clear way it presents the basics of essay writing in an easy-to-follow progression of useful lessons and activities. Through straightforward advice and thoughtful assignments, the text gives students the practice they need to approach writing well-constructed essays with confidence. With Wyrick's helpful instruction and the book's professional samples by both well-known classic and contemporary writers, STEPS TO WRITING WELL WITH ADDITIONAL READINGS sets students on a solid path to writing success. Everything students need to begin, organize, and revise writing--from choosing a topic to developing the essay to polishing prose--is right here In the ninth edition, Wyrick updates and refines the book's successful approach, adding useful new discussions, readings, exercises, essay assignments, and visual images for analysis.
Download or read book Experimental Robotics VII written by Daniela Rus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental robotics is at the core of validating robotics research for both its system science and theoretical foundations. Robotics experiments serve as a unifying theme for robotics system science and theoretical foundations. This book collects papers on the state of the art in experimental robotics. The papers were presented at the 2000 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics.
Download or read book Designing Self Organization in the Physical Realm written by Heiko Hamann and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.
Download or read book Robotics and Rehabilitation Intelligence written by Jianhua Qian and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of 1st International Conference on Robotics and Rehabilitation Intelligence, ICRRI 2020, held in Fushun, China, in September 2020. The 56 full and 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 188 submissions. The papers are divided into the following topical sections. In the first volume: Rehabilitation robotics and safety; machine vision application; electric drive and power system fault diagnosis; robust stability and stabilization; intelligent method application; intelligent control and perception; smart remanufacturing and industrial intelligence; and intelligent control of integrated energy system. In the second volume: smart healthcare and intelligent information processing; human-robot interaction; multi-robot systems and control; robot design and control; robotic vision and machine intelligence; optimization method in monitoring; advanced process control in petrochemical process; and rehabilitation intelligence.
