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REDI: Remote Distributed Intelligence

Distributed intelligence is concerned with the design of a multi-agent system that achieves a global objective while the system itself is composed of agents which are inherently distributed in space, time, or functionality. For example, a team of robots performing a concerted mission describes a distributed intelligent system. The application possibilities of multi-agent systems are appealing as concerted missions can be performed without often complex, non-robust, non-scalable, and time-consuming centralized control.

Rather, by utilizing a fault tolerant multi-agent distributed intelligent system in which the global behavior of the system emerges from local interactions of agents with their environment and with each other, it would be possible to achieve a global objective reliably without centralized coordination. In addition, the multi-agent system can be spatially distributed which is particularly useful in guarding, monitoring, and inspection applications.

The purpose of this research is to implement a multi-agent system composed of state-of-art miniature mobile robots equipped with sensors and communication devices which support a wide range of applications including guarding, monitoring, and various, possibly hazardous, inspection tasks. In this research, a serious effort is made to bring mobile robots to real world applications in a cost-effective and a feasible way.

Publications

Haverinen J (2005) Performance Evaluation and Analysis of SENMP in Robotics Experiments, Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'05), August 2 - 6, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, p. 2575-2580. [pdf]

Haverinen J, Parpala M & Röning J (2005) A Miniature Mobile Robot With a Color Stereo Camera System for Swarm Robotics Research, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2005), Apr 18-22, Barcelona, Spain, p. 2494-2497. [pdf]

Kemppainen A, Haverinen J & Röning J (2006) An Infrared Location System for Relative Pose Estimation of Robots, Proc. 16-th CISM-IFToMM Syposium of Robot Design, Dynamics, and Control (ROMANSY 2006), Jun 20 - 24, Warsaw, Poland (submitted). [pdf]

• Academy of Finland

• Janne Haverinen
• Anssi Kemppainen
• Matti Tikanmäki
• Jaakko Suutala