Welcome to ARRI's Distributed Intelligence & Autonomy Lab (DIAL) webpage.

The mission of the research group is to study distributed autonomous systems for environmental monitoring applications in poorly structured environments. Thanks to powerful lab capabilities (including ground and aerial mobile platforms and sensor motes), a wide variety of experiments are currently being performed to test innovative control algorithms in real-world scenarios.

 

About us

We develop algorithms and prototype vehicles for wide-area surveillance and reconnaissance using mobile sensor networks (MWSN). Monitoring on land, water and air using large numbers of mobile sensor nodes is demonstrated at our Distributed Intelligence and Autonomy Lab (DIAL).

                      

         Cybermotion Sentry Robots             Collaborative exploration                Autonomous Blimp

Research Areas-

ю Use of a Discrete Event Controller (DEC) for resource allocation and mission planning.

ю Data logging and supervisory control using LabVIEW for managing and visualization of sensor networks.

ю Deployment of large numbers of sensors using heterogeneous robotic platforms including inexpensive ARRI-Bots.

ю Use of a Potential Fields (PF) approach to achieve mobility subject to communication bandwidth, energy and navigation/collision.

ю Use of Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for information gathering, localization and navigation.

ю Platform independent algorithms: Land, Aerial, Underwater.

ю Adaptive Sampling (AS): Efficient, information-driven sensor deployment
 

             

Land based robot fleet               Sensor Event Detection                Adaptive Sampling


 

 

                     

 

 

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The projects are supported by ARO grant DAAD 19-02-1-0366, ARO grant ARO W91NF-05-1-0314, NSF grant IIS-0326505, NSF grant CNS-0421282, Singapore SERC TSRP grant 0421120028 and NI Lead User grant