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Akronym
EARS
Projekt Titel
Energy-Aware Robot Swarms
Startdatum
October 1, 2022
Enddatum
September 30, 2026
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Projektleitung
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The overarching goal of a swarm, regardless of whether it is an agent, robot or animal, is to survive together. In the case of autonomous underwater vehicles, this means that none of the robots should fail in terms of energy storage. If the energy storage, i.e. a battery, is empty, the robot is switched off, sinks into the water and is unlikely to be found again - the overall goal is missed. To ensure that the swarm can operate autonomously for as long as possible, ongoing research will focus on energy-aware cooperation between individuals in the swarm to extend the life of all devices and minimize failures. To achieve these goals, we will implement intelligent mission management algorithms that allow the swarm to make independent and autonomous decisions. To this end, we will create a simulation environment to test the algorithms and validate the expected results. In the simulation we can choose different load models for the power consumption and different swarm sizes. For the simulation environment, different mathematical models, i.e. the energy storage and the individual consumers, have to be created and identified using real measurement data. Proof-of-concept experiments with a limited number of underwater vehicles will be used to validate the simulation results. As a result, the algorithms for intelligent mission management need to be implemented in such a way that they can cope with all the uncertainties of a real-world environment that could not be modelled.