Multi‐Robot Systems for Monitoring and Controlling Large Scale Environments
Abstract
Groups of aerial, ground, and sea robots working collaboratively have the potential to transform
the way we sense and interact with our environment at large scales. They can serve as eyes‐in‐the‐sky for environmental scientists, farmers, and law enforcement agencies, providing critical, real‐time information about dynamic
environments and cityscapes. They can even help us to control large‐scale environmental processes, autonomously cleaning up oil spills, tending to the needs of
crop lands, and fighting forest fires, while humans stay at a safe distance. This talk will present an overview of research toward the realization of this vision, giving special attention to recent work on distributed optimization‐based control algorithms for groups of aerial robots to monitor large‐scale environments. I
will describe a general optimization‐based control design methodology for synthesizing practical, distributed robot controllers with provable stability and convergence properties. I will also describe low‐level control techniques based on differential flatness to coordinate the motion of teams of multirotor
helicopters in an agile and computationally efficient manner. Experimental studies with groups of multirotor robots flying both outdoors and indoors using these controllers will also be discussed.
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