Workshop: Frontiers of Real-World Multi-Robot Systems: Challenges and Opportunities; Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Spring 2011

研讨会：现实世界多机器人系统的前沿：挑战与机遇；

• 批准号: 1107010
• 负责人: Manish Kumar
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1107010&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Frontiers; Real; World; Multi

The purpose of this project is to organize a two-day workshop on multi-robot systems that addresses the practical aspects and issues involved in real-world implementation of these systems. The field of multi-robot systems has seen a tremendous analytical progress that has included development of mathematical and algorithmic tools to enable information processing, control, and communication. These systems have tremendous potential for applications in dynamic and uncertain conditions that characterize a wide range of civilian and military applications such as disaster management, large-scale monitoring and surveillance, and space exploration. Before these systems can be operational in real-world environments, not only a number of research issues have to be resolved but also the theories generated from research have to be verified, validated, and tested by extensive experimentation and field implementation. The workshop focuses on five issues central to the experimental and real-world implementation aspects of multi-agent robotics that includes: i) multi-robot hardware; ii) software integration; iii) communication; iv) sensing; and v) simulation environments. The main objectives of the workshop include determining strategic research directions, developing action plans, and foment interdisciplinary collaborations to help overcome the shortcomings prevalent in the current systems. The workshop brings together researchers working on the multi-disciplinary aspects of the swarm robotics such as systems and controls, communication, sensor data processing and fusion, and development of sensors. In addition to researchers working in the engineering disciplines, researchers from several other disciplines such as biology, physics, and mathematics will be invited to discuss various aspects of this research. Such a forum enables the cross-fertilization of ideas from multiple scientific domains and promotes interdisciplinary research. This project enables and supports participation of students, especially those at undergraduate levels and from underrepresented groups. Elaborate arrangements are made to widely disseminate the presentations, discussions, and findings from this workshop to broader research community.

该项目的目的是组织一个为期两天的多机器人系统研讨会，讨论这些系统在现实世界中的实施所涉及的实际方面和问题。多机器人系统领域已经看到了巨大的分析进展，包括数学和算法工具的开发，以实现信息处理，控制和通信。这些系统在动态和不确定条件下具有巨大的应用潜力，这些条件是灾害管理、大规模监测和监视以及空间探索等广泛民用和军事应用的特点。在这些系统可以在现实世界的环境中运行之前，不仅要解决一些研究问题，而且还必须通过广泛的实验和现场实施来验证，验证和测试研究产生的理论。研讨会重点讨论了多智能体机器人技术的实验和现实世界实施方面的五个核心问题，包括：i）多机器人硬件; ii）软件集成; iii）通信; iv）传感; v）仿真环境。研讨会的主要目标包括确定战略研究方向，制定行动计划，并促进跨学科合作，以帮助克服当前系统中普遍存在的缺点。该研讨会汇集了研究群体机器人多学科方面的研究人员，如系统和控制，通信，传感器数据处理和融合，以及传感器的开发。除了工程学科的研究人员外，还将邀请生物学、物理学和数学等其他学科的研究人员讨论本研究的各个方面。这样一个论坛使来自多个科学领域的想法能够相互交流，并促进跨学科研究。该项目使学生，特别是本科生和代表性不足群体的学生能够参与并支持他们的参与。精心安排，广泛传播的演讲，讨论，并从这次研讨会的结果，以更广泛的研究界。