MVWT-II: the second generation Caltech Multi-Vehicle Wireless Testbed

Author

Jin, Z. ; Waydo, Stephen ; Wildanger, Elisabeth B. ; Lammers, Michael ; Scholze, Hans ; Foley, Peter ; Held, David ; Murray, Richard M.

Author_Institution

California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

6

fYear

2004

fDate

June 30 2004-July 2 2004

Firstpage

5321

Abstract

The Caltech Multi-Vehicle Wireless Testbed is an experimental platform for validating theoretical advances in multiple-vehicle coordination and cooperation, real-time networked control system, and distributed computation. This paper describes the design and development of an additional fleet of 12 second-generation vehicles. These vehicles are hovercrafts and designed to have lower mass and friction as well as smaller size than the first generation vehicles. These hovercrafts combined with the outdoor wireless testbed provide a perfect hardware platform for RoboFlag competition.

Keywords

design engineering; games of skill; hovercraft; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; real-time systems; Caltech MultiVehicle Wireless Testbed; RoboFlag competition; distributed computation; hardware platform; hovercraft design; multivehicle cooperation; multivehicle coordination; outdoor wireless testbed; real time networked control system; second generation vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8335-4

Type

conf

Filename

1384698