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DI Lab Robots

Meet the DI Lab Robots:
(back row) Augustus, Arno, Blitz, Cappy, Duke, Constantine
(3rd row) Optimus, Bumblebee, Jazz, Ironhide, Ratchet
(1st two rows) Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet

Last updated: April 2011

UT Cooperative Robot Movies

IQ-ASyMTRe: Information Quality Based Approach for Satisfying Multi-Robot Sensor Constraints

(Physical robots) Robot navigation task (2009)
(Physical robots) Robot navigation task, different interference situation (2009)
(Physical robots) Tracking task, using IQ-ASyMTRe (2009)
(Physical robots) Tracking task, using VFH (inferior to IQ-ASyMTRe) (2009)

Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Teaming in a Box Pushing Task

(Physical robots) Human-Robot box pushing, video 1, robot pushes on the right (2x speed) (2008)
(Physical robots) Human-Robot box pushing, video 2, robot pushes on the left (2x speed) (2008)
(Physical robots) Human-Robot box pushing, video 2, robot pushes on the left (regular speed) (2008)

Multi-Robot Perimeter Patrol

(Simulation robots) Perimeter patrol (2009)
(Physical Robots) Perimeter patrol, using null-space-based behavioral approach; shown for open border (2009)
(Physical Robots) Perimeter patrol, using null-space-based behavioral approach; shown for closed border (2009)
(Physical robots) Perimeter patrol, video 1 (2008)
(Physical robots) Perimeter patrol, video 2 (2008)

Learning-Based Fault Detection in Cooperative Tasks

(Simulated robots) Normal follow robot task, Robots learning "normal" operation of follow-leader (2008) (Physical robots) Robots detect error in follow robot task, using distributed SAFDection(2009)
(Simulated robots) Robots detect stuck robot in follow robot task, using distributed SAFDetection (2008)
(Physical robots) Normal box pushing task, Cooperative robots learning "normal" operation (2007)
(Physical robots) Robot gets stuck during box pushing, automatically detecting problem from learned "normal" model (2007)
(Physical robots) Communication fails during box pushing, with robots automatically detect problem from learned "normal" model (2007)
(Physical robots) Goal (indicated by red blob) lost during box pushing, with robots automatically detect problem from learned "normal" model (2007)

Anomaly (Intruder) Detection in Sensor Networks, with Mobile Robot Response

(Physical robots) Sensor network detects abnormal situation , with mobile robot responding to location of anomaly (2007)

ASyMTRe-Based Sensor Sharing for Go-to-Goal

(Physical robots) Site Clearing task, AsYMTre layered with higher-level task allocator (2006) (run with Windows Media Player)
(Physical robots) Partial robot failure, leading to reconfiguration of sensor sharing (2005)
(Physical robots) Robot death, leading to reconfiguration of sensor sharing (2005)
(Physical robots) Case 1: (Filetype: wmv) Two fully capable robots going to goal independently (using laser localization) (2004)
(Physical robots) Case 2: (Filetype: wmv) Left robot has only camera, using it to calculate relative localization to right robot; right robot communicates its global position (using laser localization), helping left robot reach goal (2004)
(Physical robots) Case 3: (Filetype: wmv) Left robot has no sensors; right robot uses its camera and laser localization to communicate left robots' global position to the left robot; after left robot reaches goal, right robot moves independently to goal (2004)

Heterogeneous Assistive Navigation

Distributed Mobile Acoustic Sensor Network

(Physical robots) Distributed acoustic sensor network with several AmigoBots (2003)
(Simulation) Acoustic sensor net detection of intruder (2003)
(Simulation) Intruder intercept within acoustic sensor network (2003)

Formation-keeping

Photo Album

SDR Experiments at Ft. AP Hill, VA, January 2004.
SDR Testing at SAIC (McLean, VA), 2003.
Research robot photos, 2003.
SDR Robot Construction Day in the Distributed Intelligence Laboratory, May 2003.

DI Lab Robots

UT Cooperative Robot Movies

IQ-ASyMTRe: Information Quality Based Approach for Satisfying Multi-Robot Sensor Constraints

Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Teaming in a Box Pushing Task

Multi-Robot Perimeter Patrol

Learning-Based Fault Detection in Cooperative Tasks

Anomaly (Intruder) Detection in Sensor Networks, with Mobile Robot Response

ASyMTRe-Based Sensor Sharing for Go-to-Goal

Heterogeneous Assistive Navigation

Distributed Mobile Acoustic Sensor Network

Formation-keeping

Photo Album

Parker's older Cooperative Robot Movies from MIT and ORNL

ORNL Formation-Keeping (2002)

ORNL Cooperative Object Handling (1998)

ORNL Cooperative Multi-Target Observation (2000)

ORNL Laser-based Mapping, single robot (2000)

MIT "Mock" hazardous waste cleanup (1993)

MIT Box pushing (1994)