Title
Safe, Remote-Access Swarm Robotics Research on the Robotarium.
Abstract
This paper describes the development of the Robotarium -- a remotely accessible, multi-robot research facility. The impetus behind the Robotarium is that multi-robot testbeds constitute an integral and essential part of the multi-agent research cycle, yet they are expensive, complex, and time-consuming to develop, operate, and maintain. These resource constraints, in turn, limit access for large groups of researchers and students, which is what the Robotarium is remedying by providing users with remote access to a state-of-the-art multi-robot test facility. This paper details the design and operation of the Robotarium as well as connects these to the particular considerations one must take when making complex hardware remotely accessible. In particular, safety must be built in already at the design phase without overly constraining which coordinated control programs the users can upload and execute, which calls for minimally invasive safety routines with provable performance guarantees.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Robotics
Test facility,Simulation,Upload,Engineering,Swarm robotics
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1604.00640
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
27
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Pickem1532.80
Li Wang21077.24
Paul Glotfelter3514.76
Yancy Diaz-Mercado4525.36
Mark Mote5372.09
Aaron D. Ames61202136.68
Eric Feron7428.23
Magnus Egerstedt82862384.94