Multi-Robot Systems: Uses and Benefits
EUVATION: Spotlight on European Innovation
Technikon
5 • 1 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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In this episode we speak with Professor Christian Bettstetter and Agata Barciś from the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. The team recently published an award winning paper which deals with the synchronization of Multi-Robot Systems such as drone swarms. We examine the societal uses for this technology and discuss the benefits of machines communicating with each other to act in unison.
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| 0:00.0 | Powerful collaborations, cutting-edge science, and curious minds coming together for a glimpse of the future. |
| 0:12.9 | Stay tuned as we look at the latest updates on some of the most promising technology projects. |
| 0:21.8 | Welcome to Spotlight on European Innovation. I'm your host, Peter Ballant, from Technicon. |
| 0:26.7 | Today we're talking about drones, but it's a side of drones you probably hadn't thought |
| 0:31.5 | about before. Launching one drone is fairly straightforward, but what about launching 20 or 50 or even a larger |
| 0:39.6 | swarm? In this scenario, the trick is to get them to communicate and make decisions amongst |
| 0:45.2 | themselves a lot like animals would. It's no easy task, but for Christian Betchdara, it's a career. |
| 0:53.1 | He's a professor and head of the Institute of Networked |
| 0:56.6 | and Embedded Systems at the University of Klagenfurt. He's also the founding scientific |
| 1:02.7 | director of Lakeside Labs, a non-profit company that performs research on self-organizing networked |
| 1:09.2 | systems. He joins us today along with Agatha Barcis, a PhD student and researcher in the Karl Popper |
| 1:15.6 | doctoral school on networked autonomous aerial vehicles at the University of Klogenford here in Austria. |
| 1:22.6 | Together they wrote a paper entitled Beyond Sync, Distributed Temporal Coord coordination and its implementation in a multi-robot system. |
| 1:31.3 | This paper was submitted to the IEEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems in Sweden and won the award for best paper. |
| 1:41.9 | It's really a noteworthy achievement for this pair, and we welcome them to the |
| 1:45.7 | studio to talk more about their work. We start with Christian Betzre by asking, what are you |
| 1:51.6 | working on? I'm working on networked systems, where the systems can be anything from tiny sensors to robots to cars or even larger systems like airplanes |
| 2:08.6 | so one of my field of research is how to make them networked in an efficient, energy efficient, resource efficient manner. |
| 2:20.6 | And I've devoted the last years to a special topic where we work on multi-dron systems, |
| 2:27.3 | so multiple aerial robots. This topic we started 12 years ago, and we now have a new doctoral school in this area at the University of Clarenford where we have four PhD students working on control of such aerial robots, on communication of such aerial robots, on synchronization and other aspects, |
| 2:51.6 | localization, navigating them through space, |
| 2:55.6 | also always with certain applications in mind, |
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