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Distributed Control For Robotic Swarms Using Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations, Shelley Rounds

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis introduces a design combining an emerging area in robotics with a well established mathematical research topic: swarm intelligence and Voronoi tessellations, respectively. The main objective for this research is to design an economical and robust swarm system to achieve distributed control. This research combines swarm intelligence with Voronoi tessellations to localize a source and create formations. Extensive software coding must be implemented for this design, such as the development of a discrete centroidal Voronoi tessellation (CVT) algorithm.

The ultimate purpose of this research is to advance the existing Mobile Actuator and Sensor Network (MASnet) platform to eventually develop …

Analysis And Experiments For Tendril-Type Robots, Lara Cowan

All Theses

New models for the Tendril continuous backbone robot, and other similarly constructed robots, are introduced and expanded upon in this thesis. The ability of the application of geometric models to result in more precise control of the Tendril manipulator is evaluated on a Tendril prototype. We examine key issues underlying the design and operation of 'soft' robots featuring continuous body ('continuum') elements. Inspiration from nature is used to develop new methods of operation for continuum robots. These new methods of operation are tested in experiments to evaluate their effectiveness and potential.

Implementación De Una Interfaz Hmi Para La Operación Del Módulo Control De Procesos Del Laboratorio De Robótica, Jhon Jairo Grueso Delgado

Ingeniería en Automatización

Para poder implementar una interfaz humano-máquina en el modulo control de procesos, se deben conocer los distintos tipos de software diseñados para el diseño de esta aplicación así como el estándar utilizado para la comunicación entre PLC y computador. Antes de entrar a implementar la interfaz se realizó una descripción del modulo para conocer sus componentes y realizar pruebas a los mismos. Se hizo una revisión a los planos existentes, realizando algunos cambios en las conexiones eléctricas para poner en funcionamiento el equipo, después de estar funcionando se procedió a realizar la configuración del PLC que es uno de los …