Aerial Robot Swarms (Max Planck Lecture)
- Vijay Kumar, Ph.D.
- University of Pennsylvania, UPS Foundation Professor School of Engineering and Applied Science
Autonomous micro aerial robots can operate in three-dimensional, indoor and outdoor environments, and have applications to search and rescue, first response and precision farming. I will describe the challenges in developing small, agile robots and the algorithmic challenges in the areas of (a) control and planning, (b) state estimation and mapping, and (c) coordinating large teams of robots.