| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/J49785/01 |
| Title: |
ITE: MULTIPLE AUTOMATA FOR COMPLEX TASK ACHIEVEMENT |
| Principal Investigator: |
Barnes, Professor D |
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| Department: |
Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Salford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 January 1994 |
Ends: |
31 July 1997 |
Value (£): |
230,023
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Human-Computer Interactions |
Robotics & Autonomy |
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The aim of the research is to investigate the joint IT/Engineering problem of how to enable a single human operator to interface to, and interact with, multiple automata for the purpose of planning and executing a complex task. The objectives are:1) to develop a multi-agent non-linear predictive planning system to decompose a defined task into sub-tasks for execution by multiple mobile robots,2) to implement a negotiation based technique to allocate sub-tasks to individual mobile robots,3) to integrate a reactive planning system with both our existing mobile robot control architecture and the predictive planning systems and,4) to build appropriate mobile robot hardware for a set of research demonstrations that show the results of our research when applied to salient aspects of the complex problem posed by our industrial collaborators.
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