Selected projects·2020 — 2022
A heterogeneous robot team inspecting an industrial plant — the field test that made the coordination problem concrete.
A multi-modal robot team — a tracked vehicle, a mecanum-wheeled vehicle, and a UAV, managed by two operators — competed in the Disaster Prevention Challenge at the World Robot Summit 2020, automating industrial plant inspection. Each platform proved good at something different: the tracked vehicle at mechanical tasks, the mecanum vehicle at rapid visual inspection in narrow passages, the UAV at aerial coverage. Making a team of unlike agents useful together, under time pressure and partial information, is the problem this site is about.
01/Representative publications
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2022
Shotaro Kojima, Tomoya Takahashi, Ranulfo Bezerra, Takaaki Nara, Masaki Takahashi, Naoto Saiki, Kenta Gunji, Pongsakorn Songsuroj, Ryota Suzuki, Kotaro Sato, Zitong Han, Kagetora Takahashi, Yoshito Okada, Masahiro Watanabe, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Tadokoro
Advanced Robotics·Journal