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Winners of Graduate Symposium Award
Paul M Maxim and Suranga Hettiarachchi, Ph.D. Candidates in the COSC department (adviser: Dr. William M. Spears), have won a 2007 UW Graduate Symposium Award, for their work entitled: "NOVEL LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM FOR ROBOT TEAMS"
The abstract for their work is as follows:
"There is a general need to develop the ability for robots to interact with each other. This ability is required for map generation, obstacle avoidance, threat detection, relaying of enemy location, and exchange of sensor information. In order to interact properly the robots in the team must be able to accurately localize their local neighbors and to share information. Prior approaches of robot localization generally rely either on global information provided by GPS, beacons, and landmarks, or complex local information provided by vision systems. In this talk we present a new technique, based on trilateration. This system is fully distributed, inexpensive, scalable, and robust. We will demonstrate the capability of this algorithm with a team of robots and an empirical analysis."
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