University of Alabama Participation of EPSCOR Institution in SSR-RC: QOS service metrics for unmanned surveillance

首席执行官建议0934373亚拉巴马大学（外展项目）安德森首席执行官建议与现有的I/UCRC合作，即明尼苏达大学的安全、安保和救援研究合作研究中心（SSR-RC），在亚拉巴马大学开展研究和外展活动。具体来说，作为分布式机器人实验室的主任，PI建议研究一个统一的平台，该平台将使人类通过基于Android的图形控制器输入，以协调和控制一组合作的无人机。该建议的智力价值涉及到基于机器人的当前状态和目标的最佳服务质量解决方案的真实的时间开发的算法的开发。如果该算法是合作的，它也将使多机器人协作。该提案旨在通过广泛的基于物理的模拟来推进这一研究问题。这项拟议工作的最广泛影响领域是多机器人合作研究的可能进展，这将在时间至关重要的灾难情况下对社会产生明显的好处。此外，所有开发都将使用标准语言，使用开源库和现成的操作系统，这一计划增加了其他人能够从这项工作中进行开发的可能性。该提案还提出了在PI实验室积极招收少数民族学生和女学生的计划。拟议中的研究可以说将促进PI的机构和几个军事中心之间的合作。

PROGRAM DIRECTOR'S RECOMMEMNDATIONIIP 0934373University of Alabama (Outreach Project)AndersonThe PI proposes to cooperate with an existing I/UCRC, the Cooperative Research Center for Safety, Security and Rescue Research (SSR-RC) at the University of Minnesota, for research and outreach activities at the University of Alabama. Specifically, as the Director of Distributed Robotics Lab, the PI proposes to investigate a unified platform that will enable inputs from a human via an Android-based graphical controller to coordinate and control a team of cooperative UAVs. The intellectual merit of the proposal involves the development of an algorithm for real time development of optimal quality of service solutions based upon the robot's current state and goal. If the algorithm is cooperative it would also enable multi-robot collaboration. The proposal seeks to advance this research issue through extensive physics-based simulation. The broadest area of impact of this proposed work is the likely advances in multi-robot cooperation research, which will have clear benefits to society in disaster situations where time is of the essence. In addition, the plan that all development will be in standard languages using open source libraries and off-the-shelf operating systems increases the likelihood that others will be able to build from this work. The proposal also presents plans for actively recruiting minority and female students in the PI's laboratory. The proposed research will arguably promote collaboration between the PI's institution and several military centers.