Autonomous Control and Human Interaction in Multiple Robots Systems

This topic of this talk will centered around the recent work of the Autonomous Robotics and Human-Machine Systems group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in the field of multi-robot system control. The talk will present fully-autonomous algorithms and human-in-the-loop methods as well. In the field of autonomous algorithms, the talk will include the following topics: vision-based formation control, mutual localization without identity information, decentralized maintenance of an extended version of the connectivity/rigidity concepts in multi-robot networks. Concerning the human-in-the-loop field, the talk will present a framework that allows multiple operators to perform shared control of multiple robots in a bilateral way, i.e., with the presence of haptic feedback. Both the theoretical methodologies behind the developed algorithms and the practical application on a real group of multiple UAVs (quadrotors) will be shown during the talk