Title :
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
fDate :
June 30 2004-July 2 2004
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;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8335-4
