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Swarms of robots in heterogeneous environments working together in a System of Systems, raise the need for suitable inter-swarm communication. This paper presents a potentially viable solution. Communication for land swarms was found to be successful through ZigBee Radio Modems, and a suitable counterpart is necessary for underwater swarms in a system of systems. An extensible standards based protocol...
This paper describes the programming of a reconfigurable environment to handle inverse dynamics computation for robotics control. Instruction parallelism/pipelining and avoidance of carry propagation while evaluating a lengthy sequence of sum of products is proposed. The difficulties of programming a reconfigurable platform are overcome by defining a fixed Processing Element (PE) model with multiple...
Simulation provides a low cost method of initial testing of control for robotic swarms. The expansion of robotic swarms to heterogeneous environments drives the need to model cooperative operation in those environments. The Autonomous Control Engineering center at The University of Texas at San Antonio is investigating methods of simulation techniques and simulation environments. This paper presents...
In order to develop a robotic system of systems the robotic platforms must be designed and built. For this to happen, the type of application involved should be clear. Swarm robots need to be self contained and powered. They must also be self governing. Here the authors examine various applications and a prototype robot that may be useful in these scenarios.
This paper investigates how we can work towards building net-centric swarms of land, sea and air robots working together to accomplish a common goal. The goal is to bring together swarms of robots from all three sectors to safely benefit mankind without increasing dangers in the process. Several platforms are explored for simulation to investigate swarm robotics within heterogeneous environments.
As swarm of robots from different domains works together in a system of systems, the need arises for inter-swarm communication. This paper presents a viable solution for robotic swarm communication and navigation for different autonomous applications. Communication is achieved through ZigBee radio modems and an expandable protocol to accommodate different types of data. This proposed communication...
In order for underwater robots to communicate with land and air based robots on an equal basis, high speed communications is required. If the robots are not to be tethered then wireless communications is the only possibility. Sonar communications is too slow. Unfortunately radio waves are rapidly attenuated under water due to phenomena such as skin depth. These experiments attempt to extend the range...
Undergraduate Computer Science Department students at the University of Hawaii at Hilo participated in design, development, and deployment of a low-cost system of systems to collect and report near real-time field data from various sources including sensors linked by satellite or directly connected to the Internet. The project has been implemented as a working prototype for investigating an integrated...
This paper deals with networking and knowledge base design to support researchers from various fields. The project is been implemented as a working prototype for investigating an integrated model for environmental research, which concentrates on the application spatial, and temporal analysis techniques to large-scale ecological data sets and includes satellite imagery and ground-based sensor data...
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