Robot coordination

[GARY BOGGS]

In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors,
small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc
teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more.

If these things can keep from running into each other, why is it so
hard to design and implement a system to keep sailplanes apart?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR6tiSW-AM&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_459294

Boggs

[Grider Pirate[_2_]]

On Mar 5, 11:39*am, GARY BOGGS > wrote:
> In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors,
> small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc
> teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more.
>
> If these things can keep from running into each other, why is it so
> hard to design and implement a system to keep sailplanes apart?
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR6tiSW-AM&feature=iv&annotation_id=a...
>
> Boggs

The jellyware in the cockpit.

[soartech[_2_]]

On Mar 5, 2:46*pm, Grider Pirate > wrote:

>
> > If these things can keep from running into each other, why is it so
> > hard to design and implement a system to keep sailplanes apart?


Avoid gaggles?

[T[_2_]]

On Mar 5, 11:39*am, GARY BOGGS > wrote:
> In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors,
> small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc
> teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more.
>
> If these things can keep from running into each other, why is it so
> hard to design and implement a system to keep sailplanes apart?
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR6tiSW-AM&feature=iv&annotation_id=a...
>
> Boggs

It's all preprogrammed moves, all worked out on a computer before the
flight profile is uploaded to each unit. They are all synced to the
same clock.

T

[GARY BOGGS]

Really? I thought they were sensing each other in some way?

Boggs