Name of Sponsoring Organization: Dr. Alexandro Castellanos/Dr Wilfrido Moreno
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Name of Technical Mentor (i.e. Subject Matter Expert): NA
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Project Title: Multiple Mobile Robot Systems
Required EE Area(s) of Expertise: Basic Math and Programming skills, Engineering Design, Control Theory, Mechatronics, and Applied Robotics.
Brief Project Description: Motivations for developing multi-robot system solutions are: 1. Task complexity is too high for a single robot to accomplish. 2. Building several resource-bounded robots is much easier than having a single powerful robot. 3. Multiple robots can solve "challenges" faster using parallelism. 4. The introduction of multiple robots increases robustness through redundancy. The project’s main goal is to develop a Multiple Robot System for navigation. Using different AI techniques robots will be able to get their optimized path completion during navigation. A successful way of structuring this navigation task deals with the issue of co-operative behavior among multiple mobile robots across this project. The project will use two autonomous mobile robots developed in prior Capstone Design Projects.
Major system products expected from this project: 1. Build a Multiple Robot System for navigation. 2. Test and validate the system in a real-life scenario with specific tasks to be accomplished.
Parts of the project that “Engineering Design” is expected (e.g., mathematical calculations and/or verification simulations): 1. Develop a Multiple Robot System for navigation based on the system’s kinematics and its surroundings (Math) 2. Simulate and validate using the Robotic Operating system (ROS) (programming) 3. Use AI techniques to develop navigation strategies for the Robot System.
The level of support (Time: technical guidance, materials, computing, financial, etc.) for the project. If no financial support will be provided, please offer an estimate of the Materials Cost: Time: Technical guidance by the mentors at USF (1 hour/week) Materials: Mobile Robot platforms will be available to the students