Research

Khepera III and iRobot Magellan

Pancakes is a software architecture for multi-agent applications that abstracts the hardware and network functionality of robotic systems, such as K-Team’s Khepera IIIs. It provides researchers with an agent-centric platform for controlling teams of such real (and even simulated) autonomous robots.

Pancakes is used as the software platform for Patrick Martin’s MDLn framework. A video of MDLn and Pancakes in action can be seen here.

 
 
 

Publications

• H. R. Lee, W. R. Panont, B. Plattenburg, J.P. de la Croix, D. Patharachalam, G. Abowd. Asthmon: Empowering Asthmatic Children’s Self-Management with a Virtual Pet. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2010. (Work-In-Progress Accepted)
• P. Martin, J.P. de la Croix, and M. Egerstedt. MDLn: A Motion Description Language for Networked Systems. Proceedings of 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2008.