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== Description ==
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== Introduction ==
  
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The objective of this project is to build an autonomous heterogeneous multi-vehicle system. Such system consists of UAVs and ground robots and performs formation maintenance and manipulation with obstacle avoidance. The platform is implemented from vision positioning, cooperation protocol and obstacle avoidance algorithm. Potential applications can be seen in ground-to-air multi-task coordination, such as terrain exploration, disaster rescue and traffic control. The project involves 1-2 Quadrotor UAVs, 3-4 robots and multiple cameras to locate the agents and obstacles. The robot will be modeled as two-wheel discs, while the quadrotor will be described by aerodynamic analysis. The communication channels between the vehicles (robots and UAVs) and the computer can be established through WiFi. Based on the positions and attitudes of the vehicles, the coordination algorithm will be designed for UAVs and robots to operate under some user-defined formations. Meanwhile, obstacles avoidance and inter-robot collision avoidance need to be considered.
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This project is to build an autonomous heterogeneous multi-vehicle system where several unmanned ground robots (UGV) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) could achieve obstacle avoidance and formation control. In detail, UAV could move forward to any destination by controlling four airscrews on each side of UAV while two UGVs which are run by two wheels on each side would follow UAV as followers. In addition, UGVS could follow the UAV in certain formation, bypassing all obstacles on ground during moving process. After encountering an obstacle in moving, UGV could temporarily jump out of the formation shape and take bypassing this obstacle as the priority. If there are several obstacles on ground, the UGV could also find an optimal path to follow the UAV as the leader.
  
 
== Group members ==
 
== Group members ==

Revision as of 14:33, 3 November 2017

Introduction

This project is to build an autonomous heterogeneous multi-vehicle system where several unmanned ground robots (UGV) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) could achieve obstacle avoidance and formation control. In detail, UAV could move forward to any destination by controlling four airscrews on each side of UAV while two UGVs which are run by two wheels on each side would follow UAV as followers. In addition, UGVS could follow the UAV in certain formation, bypassing all obstacles on ground during moving process. After encountering an obstacle in moving, UGV could temporarily jump out of the formation shape and take bypassing this obstacle as the priority. If there are several obstacles on ground, the UGV could also find an optimal path to follow the UAV as the leader.

Group members

Hexu Zhang

Xiaoyuan Wang

Wenkai Yang

Supervisor

Peng Shi

Cheng-Chew Lim

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