Vabljeni na * **12. seminar FRI:* *
Mimicking the navigation of bats with echolocation*, ki bo v* TOREK,14. 10. 2008* ob *12.15* v PR-JA (Jadranska 21) Predavatelj: *Dr. Phillip McKerrow*, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong ------------------- Povzetek predavanja A bat can navigate in enclosed dark spaces using echolocation. Our aim is to build an electronic bat. One of the potential applications for a flying robot is "site assesment" in urban disaster search and rescue (USAR). Site assesment has to be done from the perimeter of the disaster site and can take a long time, time that is critical to the survival of the injured. Deployment of a flying robot to carry sensors into the site should provide better information for the asssesment. The development of such a robot poses many research challenges. The vehicle has to be able to fly in constrained space without crashing, hover on the spot, perch and stare, fly along narrow corridors without meandering and be easy to fly by unskilled pilots. In this seminar, he will discuss 3 robots that we have been working on: the Draganflyer quadrotor helicopter, a swinging robot and the Lama dual rotor helicopter. We have not reached the stage of having a vehicle that we can fly without crashing. Most of our work has been in modelling the dynamics of these robots and in developing a software architecture suitable for ultrasonic sensor based flight control. Recent research has focussed on achieving flight control of the Lama with a Sun SPOT processor. Toward this end we have developed a real-time operating system in Java to run on the Sun SPOT.
