Distributed systems and control

分布式系统和控制

• 批准号: 6020-2011
• 负责人: Francis, Bruce
• 金额: $ 2.77万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=568437
• 关键词: Distributed; systems; control

The major area of this proposal is distributed robotics, meaning networks of mobile robots that cooperate to perform a task. The best-known example is perhaps robot soccer, where teams of mobile robots play against each other. A more practical example is a convoy of military vehicles transporting material through hostile territory to the front line; the vehicles are unmanned and are driven by on-board computer/camera control systems. And a third example is a team of robot rovers equipped with isotropic antennas that are required collectively to form a single antenna with a focussed beam. The proposal also contains a minor area: multivariable control design for power electronics. Three projects are proposed: 1) Dynamic path-following for convoys of robot vehicles. 2) New theory for robot formations. 3) Control design for switched-mode power supplies.

该提案的主要领域是分布式机器人，即移动机器人合作执行任务的网络。最著名的例子可能是机器人足球，由移动机器人组成的球队相互比赛。一个更实际的例子是军用车辆车队通过敌对领土向前线运送物资；这些车辆是无人驾驶的，由车载计算机/摄像头控制系统驱动。第三个例子是一组配备各向同性天线的机器人漫游车，它们需要共同形成一个具有聚焦光束的单一天线。该提案还包含一个小领域：电力电子的多变量控制设计。