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

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

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and let's look at robot I and robot J --
and let's look at robot i and robot j --

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and a laser H finder, laser scanner.
and a laser rangefinder, laser scanner.