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RI | Research | Projects | Reliability of Mobile Robot Teams
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Reliability of Mobile Robot Teams Head: John Dolan Contact: John Dolan (jmd@cs.cmu.edu)
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Associated center: VASC For more information, see this project's homepage.
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| Project Description |
We are developing analytical tools which enable the prediction of robotic mission failure given mission specifications and robot component reliability data. These tools will enable a mission designer to choose the lowest-cost configuration of robot components and robot teams providing a required probability of mission success. We are specifically addressing multirobot missions for Mars, but the tools we are developing should have relevance for many robotic applications.
Within some narrow range of missions we envision the end product of this work to be analytical methods embedded within software which accepts as input mission parameters (including the tasks to be completed, the mission duration, and the required probability of success) and component parameters (including reliability and cost) and gives as output a comparison of different robot and team configurations in terms of their cost and their probability of success.
More generally, we will lay out the methods which can be used to develop such tools for a broad range of robotic missions.
In addition, we hope that we will be able to make some general statements about classes of missions and classes of robot team configurations. For instance, we hope to discover general guidelines for when it is preferable to have a team of robots vs. a single robot.
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Name | Title | Email Address |
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John Dolan | Senior Systems Scientist | jmd@cs.cmu.edu |
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Stephen B Stancliff | Research Programmer | stancliff@cmu.edu |
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Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.