CRI: II-NEW: Adaptive Robotic Testbed for Wireless Sensor Networks and Autonomous Systems

CRI：II-新：无线传感器网络和自主系统的自适应机器人测试台

• 批准号: 0855098
• 负责人: Chun-Sing Lee
• 金额: $ 34.73万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0855098&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CRI; II; NEW; Adaptive; Robotic

Mobile robots are envisioned to play a significant role in a variety of application domains such as collaborative sensing of a target object or environment, assisting homeland security personnel in safe-guarding buildings and detecting intruders or harmful materials, assisting elderly and disabled individuals in daily-life activities, etc. However, several key challenges related to sensing and control algorithms, network protocols, mobility management, localization, and embedded hardware/software need to be addressed in order to realize the full potential of mobile robots. This project deals with the acquisition and development of an adaptive robotic testbed, consisting of four clusters of heterogeneous mobile robots, to support and expand a wide range of ongoing research and education activities in robotics, embedded sensor systems, wireless sensor networks, distributed computing systems, and power management. The testbed includes four Pioneer 3-DX robots, twenty iRobot Create robots, and several desktop and laptop computers to interact with and control the testbed. The robotic testbed brings together diverse faculty researchers and students to facilitate new advances in each of the above areas and enables the validation of research results that would not have been possible without this infrastructure. In addition to providing state-of-the-art equipment for graduate students to perform their experimental research, the developed infrastructure also provides a flexible and cost-effective testbed for use in undergraduate and graduate courses on robotics, embedded systems, distributed systems, etc. Finally, the testbed also serves as an effective vehicle to recruit high-school and minority students, providing excellent synergy with the highly successful high-school FIRST robotics competition.

移动的机器人被设想在各种应用领域中发挥重要作用，诸如目标对象或环境的协作感测、协助国土安全人员保护建筑物并检测入侵者或有害材料、协助老年人和残疾人进行日常活动等。本地化和嵌入式硬件/软件需要解决，以实现移动的机器人的全部潜力。该项目涉及的收购和开发的自适应机器人试验台，由四个集群的异构移动的机器人，支持和扩大了广泛的正在进行的研究和教育活动的机器人，嵌入式传感器系统，无线传感器网络，分布式计算系统和电源管理。该试验台包括四个Pioneer 3-DX机器人，二十个iRobot Create机器人，以及几台台式机和笔记本电脑，用于与试验台进行交互和控制。机器人试验台汇集了不同的教师研究人员和学生，以促进上述每个领域的新进展，并使研究结果的验证成为可能，如果没有这种基础设施。除了为研究生提供最先进的设备来进行实验研究外，开发的基础设施还提供了一个灵活且具有成本效益的测试平台，用于机器人，嵌入式系统，分布式系统等本科生和研究生课程。为非常成功的高中FIRST机器人竞赛提供了出色的协同作用。