Networks of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles Prof. Schwartz Presentation to Dr. Ponsford of Raytheon May 20, 2008

Slide Name 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.

Slide Name 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.

Slide Name Robotic Boat,developed by 4 th -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

Slide Name Cooperative robots and intelligence Robots have own control and navigation algorithms Robots only know their position and others

Slide Name Video Processing and Understanding Tracking of video objects

Slide Name Networks of Robots and Sensor Swarms

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

Slide Name Robots following each other and avoiding obstacles.

Slide Name Multiple Robots

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

Slide Name This is a smart robot

Slide Name Conclusion,Capability in Building Autonomous Vehicles,Autonomous Vehicle Control –Swarming –Evader/Pursuer Learning and Adapting Networks Robots leaving a room adapting personalities