Course Description

Recent years have seen a great increase in the volume of research conducted into multi-robot systems. This course covers the state-of-the-art in control and synthesis techniques for multi-robot systems. Starting initially from motivations and definitions, students will study several important coordination methods and the ideas that have inspired them. The course balances study of fielded systems and applications with analysis of algorithms and formalisms. Students will use physical robots to design, implement and demonstrate multi-robot controllers.

This is a list of sensors sorted by sensor type.

18/April/2007

In this report we discuss our implementation of a local path planning algorithm based on virtual potential field described in [1]. The algorithm uses virtual forces to avoid being trapped in a local minimum. Simulation and experiments are performed, and compared to the results presented in the paper. They show good performance and ability to avoid the local minimum problem in most of the cases.

B. Hallgren - CERN ATLAS DCS

CAN is is a fieldbuse that allows to connect different sensors and control functions.
The basic principles of CAN network communication are explained with examples.