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Robotic swarm collision avoidance verified in real-world outdoor tests

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Researchers have developed and tested a decentralized safety verification algorithm for robotic swarms, specifically focusing on preventing collisions in real-world outdoor environments. The algorithm was adapted and enhanced for size, weight, and power-constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Extensive experiments involving 140 outdoor flights, including swarm flights with up to 8 UAVs, demonstrated the system's ability to efficiently verify safety in real-time and enable safe actions to avoid collisions. Each agent typically takes around 500-520 ms to verify safety for the next 4 seconds, with broadcast time being a significant factor. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Justin M. Bradley ·

    Robust Safety Assurance for Robotic Swarms Using Decentralized Collision Verification

    In this paper we present the methodologies, results, and analysis used to deploy a decentralized safety verification algorithm on a robotic swarm to prevent collisions at runtime in an outdoor environment. Typically, approaches toward verification of swarms of cyber-physical syst…

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