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DI Lab Robots

Meet the DI Lab Robots:
(back row) Ada, Alexandria, Edith, Grace
(3rd row) Augustus, Arno, Blitz, Cappy, Constantine
(1st two rows) Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet

Last updated: Sept. 2007

Photo Album

SDR Experiments at Ft. AP Hill, VA, January 2004.
SDR Testing at SAIC (McLean, VA), 2003.
Research robot photos, 2003.
SDR Robot Construction Day in the Distributed Intelligence Laboratory, May 2003.

UT Cooperative Robot Movies

Learning-Based Fault Detection in Cooperative Tasks

(Physical robots) Normal box pushing task, Cooperative robots learning "normal" operation (2007)
(Physical robots) Robot gets stuck during box pushing, automatically detecting problem from learned "normal" model (2007)
(Physical robots) Communication fails during box pushing, with robots automatically detect problem from learned "normal" model (2007)
(Physical robots) Goal (indicated by red blob) lost during box pushing, with robots automatically detect problem from learned "normal" model (2007)

Anomaly (Intruder) Detection in Sensor Networks, with Mobile Robot Response

(Physical robots) Sensor network detects abnormal situation , with mobile robot responding to location of anomaly (2007)

ASyMTRe-Based Sensor Sharing for Go-to-Goal

(Physical robots) Site Clearing task, AsYMTre layered with higher-level task allocator (2006) (run with Windows Media Player)
(Physical robots) Partial robot failure, leading to reconfiguration of sensor sharing (2005)
(Physical robots) Robot death, leading to reconfiguration of sensor sharing (2005)
(Physical robots) Case 1: (Filetype: wmv) Two fully capable robots going to goal independently (using laser localization) (2004)
(Physical robots) Case 2: (Filetype: wmv) Left robot has only camera, using it to calculate relative localization to right robot; right robot communicates its global position (using laser localization), helping left robot reach goal (2004)
(Physical robots) Case 3: (Filetype: wmv) Left robot has no sensors; right robot uses its camera and laser localization to communicate left robots' global position to the left robot; after left robot reaches goal, right robot moves independently to goal (2004)

Heterogeneous Assistive Navigation

Distributed Mobile Acoustic Sensor Network

(Physical robots) Distributed acoustic sensor network with several AmigoBots (2003)
(Simulation) Acoustic sensor net detection of intruder (2003)
(Simulation) Intruder intercept within acoustic sensor network (2003)

Formation-keeping

Parker's older Cooperative Robot Movies from MIT and ORNL

ORNL Formation-Keeping (2002)

(Physical robots) 3 ATRVs outside, laser-based chaining
(Physical robots) 4 Nomads, laser-based chaining

ORNL Cooperative Object Handling (1998)

(Physical robots) Multi-robot baton passing, 4 Nomads

ORNL Cooperative Multi-Target Observation (2000)

ORNL Laser-based Mapping, single robot (2000)

(Physical robot) Nomad doing mapping

MIT "Mock" hazardous waste cleanup (1993)

MIT Box pushing (1994)

(Physical robots) Homogeneous robots
(Physical robots) Heterogeneous robots