Synthesis, Modeling, and Experimental Validation of Distributed Robotic Search
Event details
| Date | 17.12.2008 |
| Hour | 17:00 |
| Speaker | James Pugh |
| Location | |
| Category | Thesis defenses |
Searching for targets in an unknown environment is a task well-suited for mobile robots, and especially for a distributed group of robots working in collaboration. In this work, a suite of new tools and methods for distributed robotic search are presented: an on-board robotic module that allows multiple searching robots to determine their relative locations; a learning-based technique to automatically evolve robotic search controllers; and a set of models that can predict how robots will behave in the search process. These tools and methods are tested in experiments with up to 10 real mobile robots.
Practical information
- General public
- Free