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Communication for a (Real) Group of Robots
Evaluate, from a very practical perspective, how robots can communicate in a multi-robot field experiment.
Keywords: communication wireless multi-robot robotics real world practical
One of our visions for the future is to deploy a group of robots in an unknown environment and have them create a map of that environment. However, a key obstacle to doing this in the real world is communication. Although there are many theoretical solutions, it is a very common theme in the community that deploying them in practice is hard.
One of our visions for the future is to deploy a group of robots in an unknown environment and have them create a map of that environment. However, a key obstacle to doing this in the real world is communication. Although there are many theoretical solutions, it is a very common theme in the community that deploying them in practice is hard.
In this work, you will approach this problem from a strictly practical perspective. You will operate on the concrete case of an experiment where a group of flying robots is to be deployed in the offices of our lab. You will start with the simple approach of a well-placed router, and evaluate what we can afford in that scenario, and what factors impact reliability. If that approach is well-explored, you will consider more advanced approaches such as one of the robots providing a wifi hotspot for the other robots, or using specialized hardware like Zigbee. An interesting sub-project would be to create a communication map ( https://tinyurl.com/y7g5qmfc ) of the offices.
In this work, you will approach this problem from a strictly practical perspective. You will operate on the concrete case of an experiment where a group of flying robots is to be deployed in the offices of our lab. You will start with the simple approach of a well-placed router, and evaluate what we can afford in that scenario, and what factors impact reliability. If that approach is well-explored, you will consider more advanced approaches such as one of the robots providing a wifi hotspot for the other robots, or using specialized hardware like Zigbee. An interesting sub-project would be to create a communication map ( https://tinyurl.com/y7g5qmfc ) of the offices.
Titus Cieslewski ( titus at ifi.uzh.ch ), ATTACH CV AND TRANSCRIPT! Required skills: Linux, ability to learn autonomously, a sense for the practical.
Titus Cieslewski ( titus at ifi.uzh.ch ), ATTACH CV AND TRANSCRIPT! Required skills: Linux, ability to learn autonomously, a sense for the practical.