A networked and cooperative control testbed
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Vladimerou, V.; Stubbs, A.; Fulford, A.; Strick, J.; Dullerud, G.E.
- Source
- SICE 2004 Annual Conference SICE 2004 SICE 2004 Annual Conference. 3:2811-2816 vol. 3 2004
- Subject
- Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Aerospace
Remotely operated vehicles
Mobile robots
Internet
Computer networks
Software safety
Feedback
Cameras
Software testing
Ethernet networks
Control systems
- Language
This paper describes a testbed facility - the HoTDeC (HOvercraft Testbed for DEcentralized Control) - developed by the authors at the University of Illinois, consisting of multiple autonomous hovercraft vehicles which are wirelessly networked. This facility provides a flexible and state-of-the-art testbed for experimentation with inter-networked vehicles and sensors for decentralized and cooperative control, in a dynamically nontrivial setting.