The Robotics Institute

RI | Seminar | February 3, 2006

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 Mechanics
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

 

Time and Place

Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)
Refreshments 3:15 pm
Talk 3:30 pm

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.

Speaker Biography

Website: www.grasp.upenn.edu/~kumar

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.