The goal of this multidisciplinary project is to develop the first cooperative network of small robots. It involves the concurrent investigation of control and estimation algorithms, actuators, sensors and platforms that support mobility and collaboration subject to severe power, size and weight constraints.
The original goals of this project were to take an existing open surgical robot testbed (the RAVEN robot), and to create a robust infrastructure for cyber-physical systems with which to extend traditional real-time control and teleoperation concepts. This is done by adding three new interfaces to the system:
