REACT Lab Rescue Robots
на канале: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Multi-robot teams, developed by Stephanie Gil's REACT Lab at Harvard SEAS, may one day provide assistance to traditional rescue efforts.
A robot, or a group of robots, on a mission often have conflicting priorities. The primary mission of a team of search and rescue robots, for example, is to find survivors. But when they do, they also need to be able to send information to the rest of the team. The best way to find survivors may be to spread out, but the best way to send information is to stay close together. If robotic teams are going to be deployed in more real-world situations, they’re going to need a system to balance these priorities.
Computer scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new control mechanism for robotic teams that allow them to automatically calculate the tradeoffs of maintaining a resilient communication network and achieving their primary goal of moving through an environment.
The research was co-authored by Beatrice Capelli and Lorenzo Sabattini. It was funded in part by the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program under grant number N00014-21-1-2714.