Bio-inspired Heterogeneous Swarm (Kangaroo Project)

We develop a swarm of mobile robots that can be applied in many applications including exploration and mapping, surveillance and reconnaissance, patrol and monitoring, victim identification in hazardous environments.

This work presents a strategic method and technological solution to emergency response services by inspiration from the Kangaroo family. We describe a semi-autonomous system consisting of a Kangaroo “mother” robot carrying a number of “child” robots sitting on her “pouch”. Depending on situation, the mother allows the children to jump out for exploration, data gathering, or call them back for data collection and displacement.