Colloquium Artificial Intelligence - Dr. Bahar Haghighat, ENTEG

Title: Miniaturized Robot Swarms for Sensing and Inspection Applications

Abstract:

Over the past two decades, the field of swarm robotics has been very successful at developing ground, aerial, and aquatic robotic swarms that demonstrate a variety of collective behaviors. A main challenge that remains unmet, however, is deployment of robot swarms to deliver applications in uncontrolled real-world settings. Sensing, surveying, and inspection applications stand to largely benefit from deployment of robot swarms. Swarms of miniaturized robots will enable accessing environments that are beyond the reach of typical platforms, realizing extensive networks of mobile sensors. In this talk, I will present a summary of my research work on mechatronic design, modeling, and control of miniaturized robot swarms. I will cover two example miniaturized swarms of aquatic and surface robots and provide an overview of future work towards achieving the aforementioned vision.