Dr. Malinowski's Autonomus Mobile Agents Laboratory

The Autonomous Vehicles and Telerobotics laboratory operates since Spring 1998. Typically it supports one to two senior capstone projects per year mainly in the areas of teleoperation or/and autonomous navigation

Senior Projects supported by this Lab

• Autonomous Vehicles, WebTrain, and Telerobotics at Bradley
• Recent Mobile Agents Projects supervised by Dr. Malinowski
• All past Mobile Agents and Telerobotis capstone senior projects

Courses supporting this Lab and student projects

• EE-AMA: Autonomous Mobile Agents
• EE-TNP: Network Programming for Embedded Systems
• EE-CES: C for Embedded Systems
• EE-OOD: Object Oriented Design for Embedded Systems (also known as Dr. Schertz's OOP'S)
• EE-WBC: Web Based Control for Embedded Systems
• Take a course through Continuing Education Program
• Access Course Notes (registered students only)

Hardware

• ActivMedia Robotics's Pioneer 2 platforms used in most of our projects
• iRobot Create platform considered for the new course about Autonomous Mobile Agents
• Overwiew of Mobile Robotics Platforms   at IEEE

Software

• MobileSim - platform simulator (up to 50 agents)
• ARIA - Agent control interface in C/C++
• Microsoft Robotics (currently not supported)

Documentation Resources

• Resources for 2006 theme: Mapping and Self Localization of a Mobile Robot
  • Mapping considerations
  • Various Projects and terrain mapping, obstacle mapping
  • Self localization
  • Some research papers
• Textbooks and Courses
  • Autonomous Mobile Robots
  • Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics
  • Autonomous Robot Systems
  • Distributed Intelligence in Autonomous Robotics
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  • Autonomous Mobile Robots @SIU
  • Robotic and Automation @ Hoboken, NJ