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ABSTRACT The Autonomy Lab builds life-like machines. Our goal is to increase the autonomy (i.e. self-direction and self-maintenance) of robots and other machines. For some time we have been building novel robot systems based on functional models of animal behaviour. But building long-lived autonomous robots requires a deeper perspective. The aquisition and management of resources such as energy and space is a fundamental, unavoidable task for all living things. From an ecological viewpoint, intelligent behaviour can be seen as rational manipulation of resources. This observation underlies our approach to building autonomous systems. This talk introduces the Autonomy Lab and reviews our recent work on multi-robot systems. We describe a series of experiments in the use of aggressive behaviour to reduce interference, and a robust novel method for coordinating multiple robots tracking an occluded target. We also introduce our large-scale autonomous robot system currently under construction, which has some unique features for ecological robot investigations. Richard Vaughan URL: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vaughan/ |
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