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Multi-Robot Search and Rescue
An Open-Ended Bridge Between Theory and Practice
Philip Twu and Magnus Egerstedt
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology
• Problem: 60 graduate students, lots of math, simplifying assumptions needed, theory-practice gap • Goal: Ability to apply computational networked control theory concepts to complex CPS
Multi-Robot Search and Rescue
• The year is 2030 and NASA has identified an asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth! Robot scouts sent previously to collect surface samples have been temporarily disabled from a pulse of EM radiation. Based on your extensive experience in networked controls, members of the robotics faculty at Georgia Tech have selected you to lead a rescue mission. Your mission is to design decentralized controllers to: 1. 2. 3. Navigate a team of 6 robots through the asteroid’s terrain Locate & reactivate 6 disabled robots from a previous mission Bring all 12 robots back to the platform, get into formation, and await to be picked up by a nearby orbiting spacecraft.
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Good luck, the future of humanity rests in your hands!
Student Solutions
What Did The Students Think/Learn?
See you at the poster session!
An Open-Ended Bridge Between Theory and Practice
Philip Twu and Magnus Egerstedt
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology
• Problem: 60 graduate students, lots of math, simplifying assumptions needed, theory-practice gap • Goal: Ability to apply computational networked control theory concepts to complex CPS
Multi-Robot Search and Rescue
• The year is 2030 and NASA has identified an asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth! Robot scouts sent previously to collect surface samples have been temporarily disabled from a pulse of EM radiation. Based on your extensive experience in networked controls, members of the robotics faculty at Georgia Tech have selected you to lead a rescue mission. Your mission is to design decentralized controllers to: 1. 2. 3. Navigate a team of 6 robots through the asteroid’s terrain Locate & reactivate 6 disabled robots from a previous mission Bring all 12 robots back to the platform, get into formation, and await to be picked up by a nearby orbiting spacecraft.
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Good luck, the future of humanity rests in your hands!
Student Solutions
What Did The Students Think/Learn?
See you at the poster session!