Enabling Novel Mission Operations and Interactions with ROSA: The Robot Operating System Agent

1 code implementation • 9 Oct 2024 • Rob Royce, Marcel Kaufmann, Jonathan Becktor, Sangwoo Moon, Kalind Carpenter, Kai Pak, Amanda Towler, Rohan Thakker, Shehryar Khattak

The advancement of robotic systems has revolutionized numerous industries, yet their operation often demands specialized technical knowledge, limiting accessibility for non-expert users.

Copiloting Autonomous Multi-Robot Missions: A Game-inspired Supervisory Control Interface

no code implementations • 13 Apr 2022 • Marcel Kaufmann, Robert Trybula, Ryan Stonebraker, Michael Milano, Gustavo J. Correa, Tiago S. Vaquero, Kyohei Otsu, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, Giovanni Beltrame

Real-world deployment of new technology and capabilities can be daunting.

NeBula: Quest for Robotic Autonomy in Challenging Environments; TEAM CoSTAR at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge

no code implementations • 21 Mar 2021 • Ali Agha, Kyohei Otsu, Benjamin Morrell, David D. Fan, Rohan Thakker, Angel Santamaria-Navarro, Sung-Kyun Kim, Amanda Bouman, Xianmei Lei, Jeffrey Edlund, Muhammad Fadhil Ginting, Kamak Ebadi, Matthew Anderson, Torkom Pailevanian, Edward Terry, Michael Wolf, Andrea Tagliabue, Tiago Stegun Vaquero, Matteo Palieri, Scott Tepsuporn, Yun Chang, Arash Kalantari, Fernando Chavez, Brett Lopez, Nobuhiro Funabiki, Gregory Miles, Thomas Touma, Alessandro Buscicchio, Jesus Tordesillas, Nikhilesh Alatur, Jeremy Nash, William Walsh, Sunggoo Jung, Hanseob Lee, Christoforos Kanellakis, John Mayo, Scott Harper, Marcel Kaufmann, Anushri Dixit, Gustavo Correa, Carlyn Lee, Jay Gao, Gene Merewether, Jairo Maldonado-Contreras, Gautam Salhotra, Maira Saboia Da Silva, Benjamin Ramtoula, Yuki Kubo, Seyed Fakoorian, Alexander Hatteland, Taeyeon Kim, Tara Bartlett, Alex Stephens, Leon Kim, Chuck Bergh, Eric Heiden, Thomas Lew, Abhishek Cauligi, Tristan Heywood, Andrew Kramer, Henry A. Leopold, Chris Choi, Shreyansh Daftry, Olivier Toupet, Inhwan Wee, Abhishek Thakur, Micah Feras, Giovanni Beltrame, George Nikolakopoulos, David Shim, Luca Carlone, Joel Burdick

This paper presents and discusses algorithms, hardware, and software architecture developed by the TEAM CoSTAR (Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots), competing in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.

Decision Making Motion Planning

Decentralized Connectivity Control in Quadcopters: a Field Study of Communication Performance

1 code implementation • 23 Sep 2019 • Jacopo Panerati, Benjamin Ramtoula, David St-Onge, Yanjun Cao, Marcel Kaufmann, Aidan Cowley, Lorenzo Sabattini, Giovanni Beltrame

Redundancy and parallelism make decentralized multi-robot systems appealing solutions for the exploration of extreme environments.

Robotics Multiagent Systems C.2.4; C.4; I.2.9