Foundations of Robotics
Seminar, October 8, 2009
Time
and Place | Seminar Abstract
An Overview of the Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Areas (URUS)
Prof. Alberto Sanfeliu
Institut de Robotica i Informatica Industrial
Universitat Politecnica de Cataluyna
NSH 1507
Talk 4:30 pm
The general objective of URUS project is the development of new ways of cooperation between network robots and human beings and/or the environment in urban areas, in order to achieve efficiently tasks that in the other way can be very complex, time consuming or too costly. For example, the cooperation between robots and video cameras can solve surveillance problems in urban areas, or the cooperation between robots and wireless communication devices can help people in several ways. The focus of the project is in urban pedestrian areas, where there exists a growing interest in reducing the number of cars in the streets and improving the quality of life. Network robots can be an important instrument to address these issues in the cities.
The objective of the project is to develop an adaptable cognitive network robot architecture for cooperation between network robots and human beings and/or the environment in urban areas. The URUS aim is to deploy a team of robots in an urban area to give a set of services to a user community. In this talk we will explain the main architecture of the project, how we have designed the interrelation between robots, environment sensors and embedded robot sensors, and humans. Also we will explain the achievements in specific functions that have been developed, cooperative localization and navigation, cooperative environment perception, cooperative map building and cooperative guiding of people.
The Robotics Institute is part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.