Modeling and distributed control methods for multi-robot systems: Achievements and trends at DISAL.
Event details
| Date | 04.12.2009 |
| Hour | 10:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. A. Martinoli, Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algorithms Laboratory, EPFL. |
| Location |
MEC2405
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
In this talk, I will first highlight the challenges related to the design, control, modeling,
performance evaluation and optimization of distributed intelligent systems. I will then shift
my focus on one particular instance of such system class: distributed robotic systems. In
particular, I will describe selected modeling and distributed control methods that we
developed in order to deal with resource-constrained, mobile robotic nodes, which have to
operate and coordinate their actions in a shared real environment. I will support the
discussion with a few recent case studies concerned with distributed sensing and
manipulation missions, in particular using miniature robots of a few centimeters in size.
Finally, I will extrapolate a few lessons we learned from such methods and outline the
importance to combine them, when appropriate, with data-based methods relying on robust
machine-learning algorithms in order to overcome some of their limitations.
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