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Dr. William M. Spears Dr. Diana F. Spears Computer Science Department University of Wyoming. Swarm Robotics at the University of Wyoming. Traditional Robotics. Traditionally, robotics researchers focus on the development of highly capable and expensive robots. Only a few are made.
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Dr. William M. Spears Dr. Diana F. Spears Computer Science Department University of Wyoming Swarm Roboticsat theUniversity of Wyoming
Traditional Robotics Traditionally, robotics researchers focus on the development of highly capable and expensive robots. Only a few are made. Predator airplanes With swarm robotics, the emphasis is on having lots of relatively inexpensive robots. Micro-air vehicles
Advantages Swarms of robots are effective: They can perform tasks that one expensive robot cannot. Swarms are robust: Even if some robots fail, the swarm can still achieve the task.
Goal The UW Distributed Robotics Laboratory serves as an environment for prototyping and demonstration of proof-of-principle for swarm robotics. Our goal is to design methods for enabling groups of robots to perform important real-world tasks…
Tasks Search and Rescue Surveillance Convoy / Formation Movement Organizing into a Formation Movement Toward a Goal Avoiding Obstacles Chemical Plume Source Tracing
Graduate Student: Wesley Kerr Search and Rescue Project
Search and Rescue Simulation Task: Robots must avoid obstacles and each other while reaching the rescue area. Rescue Area
Funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Graduate Students: Wesley Kerr Suranga Hettiarachchi Dimitri Zarzhitsky Surveillance Project
Scenario: Unmanned Aerial VehiclesCooperate To Detect Targets UAV UAV UAV Target detector Terrain detector
Surveillance Simulation Task: UAVs must detect as many of the moving targets as possible, while avoiding each other. UAVs forest
Graduate Student: Suranga Hettiarachchi Convoy / Formation Movement Project
Formation Organization Task 1: Robots must organize themselves into formation.
Formation Movement Task 2: Robots must organize themselves into formation and then move toward a light source.
Task 3: Robots must organize themselves into formation and then move toward a goal, while avoiding obstacles. Formation Movement Simulation goal
Portions of this work to be funded by the Joint Robotics Program. Testing to take place at Camp Guernsey. Graduate Student: Dimitri Zarzhitsky Chemical Plume Tracing Project
Robots must organize themselves into a formation, and then locate the source of a chemical hazard, while avoiding obstacles. Plume Tracing Simulation source
Portions of this work to be funded by the Joint Robotics Program. Testing to take place at Camp Guernsey. Graduate Students: Paul Maxim Thomas Kunkel Ultrasonic Localization for Swarms of Robots
Swarm robot technology equipped with a localization system • Use trilateration method for local positioning system Hardware implementation Robot prototype
Project Participants FACULTY Jerry Hamann, Cameron Wright (Electrical and Computer Engineering) M. P. Sharma (Chemical Engineering) John Schabron (Chemist, Western Research Institute) Dave Walrath, Doug Smith, Dimitri Mavriplis (Mechanical Engineering) Dan Stanescu (Mathematics) David Thayer (Physics and Astronomy) GRADUATE STUDENTS Rodney Heil Suranga Hettiarachchi Wesley Kerr Lee Frey Thomas Kunkel Paul Maxim Mark Patterson Yi Shi Dimitri Zarzhitsky UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Paul Hansen Kurt Lawton Ben Palmer David Weiser Ella Wellman Brian Zuelke
