Instrumentation and Autonomous Agents Laboratory

在过去十年中，政府、机构和广大民众对自治系统的接受和认可呈指数级增长。虽然科学在许多子领域都取得了进步，但没有一个比移动车辆的自动化更突出。任何现代自主系统研究的基石都是准确定位和快速跟踪移动代理运动的能力。渥太华大学新成立的仪器和自主代理机构将通过联合机械工程系和电气工程与计算机科学学院的专业知识，支持跨学科研究，以扩大自主系统的能力。运动捕捉系统与智能自主机器人代理相结合，将在自主系统算法、协作控制和协调系统以及定位和传感方法方面带来新的发现。传感工具将促进申请人小组最近开发的车辆设计的实施和性能评估，并促进生物启发感知机制，无人机交付，空中部署，异构多智能体任务分配和控制领域的新进展。通过该提案获得的动作捕捉系统和代理将在执行多学科协作实验研究和向机器人、自动驾驶汽车、远程操作和人机交互领域的未来几代工程师和科学家灌输市场技术技能方面发挥重要作用。

Autonomous systems are witnessing exponential growth in acceptance and recognition from governments, agencies and the population at large and over the last decade. While scientific advances have been made in many subfields, none is more prominent than the automatization of mobile vehicles. The cornerstone of any modern autonomous systems research is the ability to accurately localize and quickly track the motion of mobile agents. The newly created Instrumentation and Autonomous Agents facility at the University of Ottawa will support interdisciplinary research to expand the capabilities of autonomous systems by uniting expertise from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The motion capture system combined with a fleet of intelligent autonomous robotic agents will lead to new discoveries in autonomous system algorithms, cooperative control and coordination systems, and localization and sensing approaches. The sensing tools will facilitate the implementation and performance assessment of vehicle designs recently developed by the applicants' groups and foster new advances in the fields of bio-inspired perception mechanisms, drone deliveries, aerial deployments, heterogeneous multi-agent task allocation and control. The motion capture system and agents acquired through this proposal will play a vital role for performing multi-disciplinary collaborative experimental research and instilling marketable technological skills to future generations of engineers and scientists in the fields of robotics, autonomous vehicles, teleoperation, and human-robot interactions.