Towards net-centric system of systems robotics in air, sea and land

Abstract

This paper investigates how we can work towards building net-centric swarms of land, sea and air robots working together to accomplish a common goal. The goal is to bring together swarms of robots from all three sectors to safely benefit mankind without increasing dangers in the process. Several platforms are explored for simulation to investigate swarm robotics within heterogeneous environments.

Autonomy and Control of Adaptive Systems of Systems

“…Systems of systems (SoS) raise many relevant problems: Architecture, design and acquisition, 1 tests and evaluation, 2,3 systems deployment, integration and standards definition, in different domains such as industrial automation, 4 Aeronautical systems, 5 robotic, 6 etc. These problems are naturally inherent problems in SoS because they are distributed heterogeneous systems that work independently but with coordination objective.…”

Control and simulation of robotic swarms in heterogeneous environments

“…HE focus of ongoing research at the Autonomous Control Engineering (ACE) center at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is on developing technology for Systems of Systems in the area of swarm robotics, working cooperatively in heterogeneous environments. A specific example is harvesting and transporting deep sea resources [1] as illustrated in Fig. 1.…”