This project provided undergraduate and graduate students a unique opportunity to work with an interdisciplinary and international team of researchers on the design and control of multi-agent robotic systems. The technical focus of the collaboration was centered around the design of robust multi-robot coordination strategies for execution of large scale cooperative tasks. Advances in embedded processor and sensor technology in the last thirty years have accelerate the demand for teams of robots in various application domains. Multi-agent robotic systems are particularly well-suited to execute tasks that cover wide geographic ranges, require significant parallelization, and/or depend capabilities that are varied in both quantity and difficulty. Example applications include littoral exploration and surveillance, rainforest health monitoring, autonomous transportation systems, warehouse automation, and hazardous waste clean-up.
Grant: NSF OISE 113011.
Project Alumni
Daniel Mox, B.S./M.S. 2015, Drexel University, Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania
Dennis Larkin, M.S. 2015, Drexel University
Emily LeBlanc, B.S. 2014, Temple University, Ph.D. student at Drexel University
James Milligan, B.S./M.S. 2013, Drexel University, SRI