I/UCRC Collaborative Research: A Testing Methodology and Testbed for Miniature Robots

安全、安保与救援研究中心提案#1127938本提案为丹佛大学和明尼苏达大学的安全、安保与救援研究中心站点寻求资金。基础研究的资金申请由NSF批准的征求授权，NSF 10-601。本次招标邀请I/ ucrc提交支持行业定义基础研究的提案。在极端环境中使用机器人团队进行荒野搜索和救援，城市搜索和救援以及监视，预计需要在陆地，水中和水下操作。提议的工作将探索通过环境干扰、通信失误和硬件和软件故障来保持这种多个机器人团队协调的方法。此外，建立弹性机器人团队的工作将使团队能够探索由于这些各种故障而可能出现的紧急行为。这项工作将建立一个基于Aquapod机器人的实时测试平台，并包括在各种水环境中开发单个和多个机器人的测试方法。拟议工作的成果有可能在公共安全和民用和军事应用领域的搜索和救援领域产生重大影响。这项工作得到了行业咨询委员会以及该中心的个别行业成员的支持，并有可能扩展该中心。通过扩展到机器人团队领域，他们的行为和容错控制。由于为机器人团队开发的测试方法，这项工作的影响有可能扩展到中心之外。该中心将让研究生和本科生参与这项工作，并将结果纳入机器人和软件系统工程的现有课程。

Safety, Security and Rescue Research CenterProposal #1127947Proposal #1127938This proposal seeks funding for the Safety, Security and Rescue Research Center sites at the University of Denver and the University of Minnesota. Funding Requests for Fundamental Research are authorized by an NSF approved solicitation, NSF 10-601. The solicitation invites I/UCRCs to submit proposals for support of industry-defined fundamental research. Use of robots teams in extreme environments for wilderness search and rescue, urban search and rescue and surveillance are anticipated to require operation on land, water and under water. The proposed effort will explore means to maintain coordination of such multiple robot teams through environmental disturbances, communication lapses, and hardware and software failures. Moreover the work to establish resilient robot teams will enable the exploration of emergent behavior of the team that has the potential to arise due to these various faults. The effort will establish a real-time test bed based on the Aquapod robot and include development of test methodologies for single and multiple robots in various aqueous environments.The outcomes of the proposed work have the potential for significant impact in the areas of public safety and search and rescue across civilian and military application spaces. The work is supported by the Industry Advisory Board as well as individual industry members of the center and has the potential to extend the center?s portfolio through expansion into the areas of robot teams, their behavior and fault tolerant control. The impact of the work has the potential to extend beyond the center by virtue of the testing methodology to be developed for robot teams. The center will involve graduate students and undergraduates in the work and incorporate the results in existing coursework in robotics and software systems engineering.