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Authors: Anders Lyhne Christensen 1 ; Sancho Oliveira 1 ; Octavian Postolache 2 ; Maria João de Oliveira 3 ; Susana Sargento 4 ; Pedro Santana 2 ; Luis Nunes 2 ; Fernando Velez 5 ; Pedro Sebastião 2 ; Vasco Costa 1 ; Miguel Duarte 1 ; Jorge Gomes 6 ; Tiago Rodrigues 1 and Fernando Silva 6

Affiliations: 1 Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) and BioMachines Lab, Portugal ; 2 Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal ; 3 Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) and Vitruvius FabLab-IUL, Portugal ; 4 Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal ; 5 Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal ; 6 Instituto de Telecomunicações, BioMachines Lab, LabMAg and Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Keyword(s): Robotics Platform, Digital Manufacturing, Mesh Networks, Evolutionary Robotics, Decentralized Control.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Agents ; Artificial Intelligence ; Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems ; Autonomous Systems ; Collective Intelligence ; Computational Intelligence ; Cooperation and Coordination ; Distributed and Mobile Software Systems ; Enterprise Information Systems ; Evolutionary Computing ; Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development ; Knowledge-Based Systems ; Multi-Agent Systems ; Physical Agents ; Robot and Multi-Robot Systems ; Self Organizing Systems ; Soft Computing ; Software Engineering ; Symbolic Systems

Abstract: The availability of relatively capable and inexpensive hardware components has made it feasible to consider large-scale systems of autonomous aquatic drones for maritime tasks. In this paper, we present the CORATAM and HANCAD projects, which focus on the fundamental challenges related to communication and control in swarms of aquatic drones. We argue for: (i) the adoption of a heterogeneous approach to communication in which a small subset of the drones have long-range communication capabilities while the majority carry only short-range communication hardware, and (ii) the use of decentralized control to facilitate inherent robustness and scalability. A heterogeneous communication system and decentralized control allow for the average drone to be kept relatively simple and therefore inexpensive. To assess the proposed methodology, we are currently building 25 prototype drones from off-the-shelf components. We present the current hardware designs and discuss the results of simulation- based experiments involving swarms of up to 1,000 aquatic drones that successfully patrolled a 20 km-long strip for 24 hours. (More)

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Lyhne Christensen, A.; Oliveira, S.; Postolache, O.; João de Oliveira, M.; Sargento, S.; Santana, P.; Nunes, L.; Velez, F.; Sebastião, P.; Costa, V.; Duarte, M.; Gomes, J.; Rodrigues, T. and Silva, F. (2015). Design of Communication and Control for Swarms of Aquatic Surface Drones. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART; ISBN 978-989-758-074-1; ISSN 2184-433X, SciTePress, pages 548-555. DOI: 10.5220/0005281705480555

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author={Anders {Lyhne Christensen}. and Sancho Oliveira. and Octavian Postolache. and Maria {João de Oliveira}. and Susana Sargento. and Pedro Santana. and Luis Nunes. and Fernando Velez. and Pedro Sebastião. and Vasco Costa. and Miguel Duarte. and Jorge Gomes. and Tiago Rodrigues. and Fernando Silva.},
title={Design of Communication and Control for Swarms of Aquatic Surface Drones},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART},
year={2015},
pages={548-555},
publisher={SciTePress},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART
TI - Design of Communication and Control for Swarms of Aquatic Surface Drones
SN - 978-989-758-074-1
IS - 2184-433X
AU - Lyhne Christensen, A.
AU - Oliveira, S.
AU - Postolache, O.
AU - João de Oliveira, M.
AU - Sargento, S.
AU - Santana, P.
AU - Nunes, L.
AU - Velez, F.
AU - Sebastião, P.
AU - Costa, V.
AU - Duarte, M.
AU - Gomes, J.
AU - Rodrigues, T.
AU - Silva, F.
PY - 2015
SP - 548
EP - 555
DO - 10.5220/0005281705480555
PB - SciTePress