Adaptive Human Multi-robot Systems
Description: This project develops
adaptive human multi-robot systems that can flexibly respond
to changes in situation and task needs. It develops methods
for real-time monitoring and analysis of the cognitive and
emotional state of operators, enabling human operators to
adapt to robot system changes and robots to adapt to human
cognitive and emotional states. By developing adaptive systems
to improve the performance of human-robot teams, the project
advances our understanding of human multi-robot interactions.
The new technologies provided will improve function of human
multi-robot teams deployed (for example) in environmental
monitoring, nuclear cleanup, disaster response, and defense.
The project advances STEM education and workforce development
by involving K-12 students, undergraduate and graduate women,
minorities, and underrepresented groups in human-robot
interaction and multi-robot systems.
Grants: NSF
People: Wonse
Jo, Tamzidul
Mina, Jeremy
Pan, Yuta
Hoashi , Walter
Kruger,
Ahreum Lee
Project Website: https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/ahmrs
Selected Publications:
- Wonse Jo, Shyam Sundar Kannan, Go-Eum Cha, Ahreum Lee, and Byung-Cheol Min, "ROSbag-based Multimodal Affective Dataset for Emotional and Cognitive States", 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), Toronto, Canada, 11-14 October, 2020. (Paper Link)
- Tamzidul Mina, Shyam Sundar Kannan, Wonse Jo, and
Byung-Cheol Min, "Adaptive Workload Allocation for
Multi-human Multi-robot Teams for Independent and
Homogeneous Tasks", IEEE Access, Vol. 8, pp. 152697-152712,
2020. Paper
Link, Video
Link
- Tamzidul
Mina, Maliha Hossain, Jee Hwan Park, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Efficient
Resource Distribution by Adaptive Inter-agent Spacing in
Multi-agent Systems",
2019 IEEE International Conference on
Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC),
Bari, Italy, 6-9 October, 2019. Paper Link, Video Link
- Wonse Jo, Jee Hwan Park, Sangjun Lee, Ahreum Lee, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Design of a Human Multi-Robot Interaction Medium of Cognitive Perception", 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - Late Breaking Reports (LBR), Daegu, South Korea, March 11-14, 2019. Paper Link, Video Link
Autonomous Robotic Teams for a Real-Time Water Monitoring
Description: Water monitoring is
an important task to conserve natural resources such as
rivers and lakes. For a long period of time water monitoring
methods have been based on the human activities. For
example, water sampling is the most common human activity.
However, this technique entails some inherent disadvantages.
In case of a large river with fast flow, it is dangerous to
the samplers. Moreover, it is slow and costly because human
samplers should travel to sites for conducting a water
sampling on their own. Also, it is inefficient for a
long-term and real-time monitoring. Recently, autonomous
water monitoring systems composed of mobile sensors for real
time monitoring and data collection have been introduced.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Unmanned Surface Vehicle
(USV) are proposed to overcome the disadvantages of the
human based methods.
The goal of this research is to develop a
continuous, real-time autonomous river monitoring system. We
are planning to develop the autonomous robotic teams that
integrate a variety of technologies including robots,
crowdsourcing, advanced region of interest (ROI) selection
and path planning. For this research ‘Wabash River’ is the
targeted test site because it is the one of the longest
rivers in the US and main stream in Indiana state. This
research is at the beginning stage. Based on the needs
assessment, this system will be iteratively designed to be
fully capable of various tasks, such as water sampling,
water pollution monitoring, sediment sampling, and early
flood warning.
Grants: NSF, UNSA, Purdue University
People: Jun Han Bae, Wonse Jo, Shaocheng Luo, Jee Hwan Park, Yuta Hoashi, Yogang Singh
Project Website: https://engineering.purdue.edu/PRWQ
Selected Publications:
- Jun Han Bae, Wonse Jo, Jee Hwan Park, Richard M. Voyles, Sara K. McMillan and Byung-Cheol Min, "Evaluation of Sampling Methods for Robotic Sediment Sampling Systems", IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Early Access, 2020. Paper Link, Video Link
- Jun Han Bae, Shaocheng Luo, Shyam Sundar Kannan, Yogang Singh, Bumjoo Lee, Richard M. Voyles, Mauricio Postigo-Malaga, Edgar Gonzales Zenteno, Lizbeth Paredes Aguilar, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Development of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Remote Sediment Sampling with a Van Veen Grab Sampler", 2019 MTS/IEEE OCEANS, Seattle, WA, USA, October 27-31, 2019. Paper Link, Video Link
- Wonse Jo, Jee Hwan Park, Yuta Hoashi, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Development of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Harmful Algae Removal", 2019 MTS/IEEE OCEANS, Seattle, WA, USA, October 27-31, 2019. Paper Link, Video Link
- Shaocheng Luo, Yogang Singh, Hanyao Yang, Jun Han Bae, J. Eric Dietz, Xiumin Diao, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Image Processing and Model-Based Spill Coverage Path Planning for Unmanned Surface Vehicles", 2019 MTS/IEEE OCEANS, Seattle, WA, USA, October 27-31, 2019. Paper Link
- Wonse Jo, Yuta Hoashi, Lizbeth Leonor Paredes Aguilar,
Mauricio Postigo-Malaga, José Garcia-Bravo, and
Byung-Cheol Min, "A Low-cost and Small USV Platform for
Water Quality Monitoring", HardwareX, Vol. 6, e00076,
October 2019. Paper Link, Source Codes, Video Link
Distributed Rendezvous and Formation Control in Cluttered Environments
Description: We consider the rendezvous
problem as robots exploring the unknown environment with
minimum communication and arrive at the selected rendezvous
location. The problem of rendezvous is ubiquitous in nature.
Animals in migration are able to share information about
food and water thus the whole group rendezvous at those
locations. Human also have same issue as we need to meet
specific people in specific place, which is applied still in
multi-agent robotic systems. With emerging technologies such
as localization, ubiquitous wireless communication, and
advanced computation capability, enhanced rendezvous control
shall bring wider application scenarios like intelligent
warehouse and urban search and rescue. The purpose of this
research is to develop a bounded distributed rendezvous
control mechanism in cluttered environment. The robots
within this environment have basically none knowledge of the
environment, but can rendezvous at the destination while
conquering the limitations such as communication being
blocked by large obstacles, and path blocked by small
obstacles, with proper decision making mechanism and
obstacle avoidance algorithms. Meanwhile, the efficiency in
rendezvous is also considered, we try to figure out robotic
rendezvous control which not only handles communication
unavailable occasions and obstacle avoidance, but also
maintain an efficiency-prior trajectory.
Grants: NSF, Purdue University
People: Shaocheng Luo, Jun Han Bae
Selected Publications:
- Shaocheng Luo, Jonghoek Kim, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Asymptotic Boundary Shrink Control with Multirobot Systems", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Early Access, 2020. Paper Link, Video Link
- Ramviyas Parasuraman, Jonghoek Kim, Shaocheng Luo, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Multi-Point Rendezvous in Multi-Robot Systems", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 50, Issue 1, pp. 310-323, Jan. 2020. Paper Link, Video Link
- Shaocheng Luo, Jonghoek Kim, Ramviyas Parasuraman, Jun Han Bae, Eric T. Matson, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Multi-robot Rendezvous Based on Bearing-aided Hierarchical Tracking of Network Topology", Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 86, pp. 131-143, April 2019. Paper Link, Video Link
- Shaocheng Luo, Jun Han Bae, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Pivot-based Collective Coverage Control with a Multi-robot Team", 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE ROBIO 2018), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 12-15, 2018. Paper Link, Video Link
- Ramviyas Parasuraman and Byung-Cheol Min, "Consensus Control of Distributed Robots Using Direction of Arrival of Wireless Signals", International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 2018 (DARS 2018), Boulder, CO, USA, Oct 15-17, 2018. Paper Link, Source Codes, Video Link
Social Behavior in Multi-robot Systems
Description: Individuals can benefit in
a social group by looking out for one another for support
and survival. It is a proven phenomenon in nature and in
this research our goal is to apply the same principles in a
multi-robot system to improve robot survivability
robustness.
Traditionally, research on multi-robot
systems has focused on developing application specific
control algorithms while adapting individual robots in the
group to operational environments and specific tasks without
explicitly considering the advantages of being in a social
group. However, given the unpredictable nature of various
operational environments and autonomous mission
requirements, designing individual robots that can take into
account all possible scenarios is unfeasible, expensive and
still lack robustness in survivability. In contrast, we
believe introducing a social group aspect to the multi-robot
system may provide a unique and robust way of dealing with
such cases.
For our initial work, social behavioral
inspiration was taken from the Huddling behavior of Emperor
Penguins in the Antarctic where they share body heat and
take turns being in the huddle centers to survive conditions
as severe as Antarctic winters as a group.
Potential research on the topic include
energy sharing between heterogeneous robotic agents,
application of machine learning techniques for distributed
position shuffling within the group to survive damaging
external stimuli, distributed control techniques for
cooperative object transportation specifically focusing on
minimal individual health loss for long term survival of the
multi-robot system.
Grants: Purdue University
People: Tamzidul Mina
Selected Publications:
- Tamzidul Mina, Maliha Hossain, Jee Hwan Park, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Efficient Resource Distribution by Adaptive Inter-agent Spacing in Multi-agent Systems", 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), Bari, Italy, 6-9 October, 2019. Paper Link, Video Link
- Tamzidul Mina and Byung-Cheol Min, "Penguin Huddling Inspired Distributed Boundary Movement for Group Survival in Multi-robot Systems using Gaussian Processes", 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE ROBIO 2018), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 12-15, 2018. Paper Link, Video Link
- Tamzidul Mina and Byung-Cheol Min, "Penguin Huddling-inspired Energy Sharing and Formation Movement in Multi-robot Systems", 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 6-8, 2018. Paper Link, Video Link
Reliability and Safety of Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems
Description: Today's autonomous cars,
otherwise known as driverless vehicles or self-driving cars,
enable the deployment of safety technologies, such as
collision warning, automatic emergency braking, and
Vehicle-to-Vehicle technologies. In the near future, these
systems in all vehicles will help to achieve zero
fatalities, zero injuries, and zero accidents. However,
behind the potential of these innovations, there is new
challenge on autonomous cars that still need to address:
cybersecurity.
As the first step, we propose an
attack-aware multi-sensor integration algorithm for the
navigation system. A Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI)
scheme is adopted for the detection of cyberattacks on
navigation systems. Particularly, a discrete Extended Kalman
Filter (EKF) is employed to construct robust residuals in
the presence of noise. The proposed method uses a parametric
statistical tool for detecting attacks based on the
residuals in properties of discrete time signals and dynamic
systems. It is based on a measurement history rather than a
single measurement at a time. These approaches enable the
proposed multi-sensor integration algorithm to generate a
quick detection and low false alarms rate that are suitable
to the applications of dynamic systems. Finally, as a case
study, INS/GNSS integration for autonomous vehicle
navigation systems is considered and tested with
software-in-the-loop simulation (SILS).
In addition, we consider attack detection
algorithms autonomous multi-vehicle systems with imperfect
information. This research addresses how a locally
controlled autonomous agent can be identified by other
agents if it has been compromised and how to make decisions
with the ultimate goal of recovering system functionality
and safety.
Grants: NIJ
People: Sangjun Lee
Selected
Publications:
- Sangjun Lee and Byung-Cheol Min, "Distributed Direction of Arrival Estimation-aided Cyberattack Detection in Networked Multi-Robot Systems", 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), Madrid, Spain, October 1-5, 2018. Paper Link, Video Link
- Sangjun Lee, Yongbum Cho, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Attack-aware Multi-sensor Integration Algorithm for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Systems", 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), Banff, Canada, 5-8 October, 2017. Paper Link, Video Link