A cooperative search controller

A cooperative search controller

Keywords: Robots, Sandia Corp., Patents

Applicant: Sandia Corporation, USAPatent number: US6,408,226Publication date: 18 June 2002Title: Cooperative System and Method Using Mobile Robots for Testing a Cooperative Search Controller

This patent claims a cooperative system using a large number of mobile robots for testing a source localisation controller to locate a source in a test area. Each mobile robot comprises a sensor, a communication device, a processor, and a memory.

The multiple robots share information and communicate over a communication network. A camera system observes the robots in the test area, and interfacing with a base station in communication with each robot.

Jon Rigelsford