1. Networks of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles
Prof. Schwartz
Presentation to Frontline Robotics
May 8, 2008

2. Research and Development Areas
Autonomous Robot Construction.
Cooperating Mobile Autonomous Robots.
Vision Systems.
Robot Flocking and Swarming
Robot swarms that adapt and learn (game theory and evolution).
Robot teams and learning.

3. Autonomous Vehicles Built from low cost robot kit.
HandyBoard HC11 controller
Bluetooth communication channel.
Sonar sensor.
Able to control over internet.
On board navigation control.

4. Robotic Tracking Activmedia PeopleBot Robot 2 DOF camera
Optical flow-based target detection and verification
Target’s motion is estimated using a particle filter
Laser rangefinder
It is used to determine distance between robot and target

5. Robotic Boat developed by 4th-year students
The boat can be controlled over a wireless network
User with a PC and a web browser can control the boat from anywhere
The web server is placed on the on-board microcontroller, which has not be done before by others

6. Robots leaving a room using game theory

7. Modelling
Robots leaving a room
Player B
Walk
Wait
Player A -1 X

8. Cooperative robots and intelligence
Robots have own control and navigation algorithms
Robots only know their position and others

9. Video Processing and Understanding
Tracking of video objects

10. Intelligent Video Object Tracking
Tracking, counting and timing of video objects.

11. Networks of Robots and Sensor Swarms

12. Vehicles Playing the Evader – Pursuit Game
Research Topics
Vehicles Learn Each Others Dynamics.
Vehicles Adapt Behaviour.
Coalition and Team Formation

13. Robots avoiding obstacles and following each other

14. Multiple Robots

15. Swarm Intelligence and Personality Evolution
Game Theory, Coalition formation.
Evolutionary Game Theory.
Learning (fuzzy, adaptive, genetic).
Personality Traits.

16. This is a smart robot

17. Conclusion Capability in Building Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous Vehicle Control
Swarming
Evader/Pursuer
Learning and Adapting Networks
Robots leaving a room
adapting personalities