Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate
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The talk
TED http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ErEBkj_3PY
dotSUB http://dotsub.com/view/a2ef8a95-b3b3-4426-a252-91366308a814
transcript Vijay_Kumar-_Robots_that_fly_..._and_cooperate_eng.srt
About the speaker
Home Page at University of Pennsylvania
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Kumar_(roboticist)
The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/
Alex Kushleyev http://diydrones.com/profile/AlexKushleyev
Daniel Mellinger https://fling.seas.upenn.edu/~dmel/wiki/index.php?n=Main.HomePage
KMel Robotics (Alex and Daniel's quadrotor company) http://kmelrobotics.com/
Related resources
Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUeGC-8dyk
Construction with Quadrotor Teams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18Z3UnnS_0
Aggressive Quadrotor Part II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geqip_0Vjec
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4
Cooperative Grasping and Transport using Quadrotors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBsJwapanWI
Autonomous Aerial Navigation in Confined Indoor Environments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMSozUpFFkU
Papers referred
Quentin Lindsey, Daniel Mellinger, and Vijay Kumar. Construction of Cubic Structures with Quadrotor Teams. Robotics: Science and Systems, June 2011. pdf video: Construction with Quadrotor Teams
N. Michael, J. Fink, and V. Kumar. Cooperative manipulation and transportation with aerial robots. In Proc. of Robotics: Science and Systems, Seattle, WA, June 2009. pdf
S. Shen, N. Michael, and V. Kumar. Autonomous indoor 3D exploration with a micro-aerial vehicle. In Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robot. and Autom., Saint Paul, MN, May 2012. To Appear.
Daniel Mellinger and Vijay Kumar. Minimum Snap Trajectory Generation and Control for Quadrotors. Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, May 2011. pdf video: Aggressive Quadrotor Part II
S. Shen, N. Michael, and V. Kumar. Autonomous indoor 3D exploration with a micro-aerial vehicle. In Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robot. and Autom., Saint Paul, MN, May 2012. To Appear.
Berman, S., Lindsey, Q., Sakar, M.S., Kumar, V. and Pratt, S.C. (2011) Experimental study and modeling of group retrieval in ants as an approach to collective transport in swarm robotic systems. Proceedings of the IEEE, in press.
M. Turpin, N. Michael, and V. Kumar. Trajectory design and control for aggressive formation flight with quadrotors. In Proc. of the Intl. Sym. of Robot. Research, Flagstaff, AZ, Aug. 2011. pdf
Daniel Mellinger, Alex Kushleyev, and Vijay Kumar. Mixed-Integer Quadratic Program (MIQP) Trajectory Generation for Heterogeneous Quadrotor Teams. Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 2012. To Appear.
Daniel Mellinger, Michael Shomin, Nathan Michael, and Vijay Kumar. Cooperative Grasping and Transport using Multiple Quadrotors. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov 2010. pdf video: Cooperative Grasping and Transport using Quadrotors
Shaojie Shen, Nathan Michael, and Vijay Kumar 3D Indoor Exploration with a Computationally Constrained MAV pdf video: Autonomous Aerial Navigation in Confined Indoor Environments
Terms and expressions
I'm here today to talk about autonomous, flying beach balls. (The previous talk was Improv Everywhere's “A TED speaker's worst nightmare. ”)
Quadrotor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrotor
Unmanned air vehicle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle
AscTec Hummingbird
- http://www.asctec.de/asctec-hummingbird-autopilot-5/
- http://www.asctec.de/assets/Downloads/Manuals/AscTec-Autopilot-Manual-v10.pdf
AscTec Pelican http://www.asctec.de/asctec-pelican-3/
Boeing Scaneagle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_ScanEagle
Gen. Atomics Predator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predator
Gen. Atomics MQ-9 Reaper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper
Northrop-Grumman Global Hawk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_RQ-4_Global_Hawk
roll, pitch, yaw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_principal_axes
jerk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics)
snap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jounce
G http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_acceleration
jump through hoops: to do a lot of extra things so you can have or do something you want (thefreedictionary)
Aphaenogaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphaenogaster
Stephen Pratt http://sols.asu.edu/people/faculty/spratt.php
Quentin Lindsey https://fling.seas.upenn.edu/~quentinl/wiki/index.php
Microsoft Kinect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect
Hokuyo Laser Scanner http://www.hokuyo-aut.jp/02sensor/07scanner/utm_30lx.html
Rangefinder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangefinder
Shaojie (Frank) Shen https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/people/shaojie_shen
Nathan Michael https://fling.seas.upenn.edu/~nmichael/wiki/index.php/Main/HomePage
Kurtis Sensenig http://kurtissensenig.com/
Errata
92 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,000 So here the processes on board So here the processors on board 214 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 and let's look at robot I and robot J -- and let's look at robot i and robot j -- 293 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 and a laser H finder, laser scanner. and a laser rangefinder, laser scanner.