Heterogeneous Swarm for Search and Rescue
Developing a heterogeneous swarm of mobile robots for fast deployment in hazardous environments.
The main objective of this collaborative project between University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), University of Ottawa (uOttawa) and Clearpath Robotics Inc. is to design and develop a heterogeneous swarm of mobile robots with capacities of fast deployment and displacement as the first responder in hazardous environments.
The heterogeneous swarm consists of a mothership and numerous child robots that are capable of fast deploying and dispersing from the mother’s deck for exploration and victim identification and self-organizing an ad-hoc network for data gathering and communication.
To achieve this goal, we are developing a novel hierarchical distributed control method for controlling global network integrity preservation of the heterogeneous swarm of mobile robots (SWARM).