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Robotics Institute
Seminar, February 3, 2006
Time
and Place | Seminar Abstract | Speaker
Biography | Speaker Appointments
Scalable
Approaches to Deploying Swarms of Vehicles and Sensors
Vijay Kumar
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied
Mauldin
Auditorium (NSH 1305)
Refreshments 3:15 pm
Talk 3:30 pm
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Abstract |
The talk will
address the fundamental problems and practical issues underlying the deployment
of large numbers of autonomously functioning vehicles, with insights from field
experiments with UAVs and UGVs in urban environments. I will present decentralized controllers and
estimators that allow large numbers of robots to maintain a desired shape
(formation) while following a desired trajectory. Finally, I will describe our ongoing SWARMS
project whose goals are to develop a framework and methodology for the analysis
of swarming behavior in biology and the synthesis of bio-inspired swarming
behavior for engineered systems.
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Speaker Biography |
Website: www.grasp.upenn.edu/~kumar
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Speaker Appointments |
For appointments,
please contact Virginia Arrington
(va2@andrew.cmu.edu).
The Robotics Institute is part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.