by Karen Meehan for the magazine ad astra; photo: goinyk/Adobestock Bernhard Rinner, Professor for Pervasive Systems at the Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems, describes the fascination and challenges associated with a highly topical interdisciplinary research field. Self-driving cars, networked devices within the Internet of Things, software programmes such as […]
Now that drones have evolved from bulky platforms to agile devices, a challenge is to combine multiple drones into an integrated autonomous system, offering functionality that individual drones cannot achieve. Rinner, Bettstetter, Hellwagner, Weiss. Multidrone systems: More than the sum of its parts. Computer 54(5):34-43, 2021. The paper „Multidrone systems: […]
Planning the simultaneous movement of multiple agents represents a challenging coordination problem, and ideally safety and efficiency are jointly addressed. In his master thesis, Paul Ladinig developed a planning algorithm for fast and energy-efficient trajectories with reduced collision potential from a start to an end constellation. This new approach combines […]
Multi-robot systems (MRS) accomplish many missions with different complexities, and their applications range from search-and-rescue and surveillance to transportation and entertainment. In many missions, multiple robots need to cooperate to complete tasks. The workflow of these multi-robot tasks involves forming coalitions of robots, assigning them to available tasks, and jointly […]
Former research staff member and PhD graduate Melanie Schranz talks about her career in engineering and how she found her dream job. Read the complete Interview (in German).
Our research on privacy-protection in cameras and in drone videos was broadcasted across Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. The science show nano from 3sat reported about our TrustEYE prototype for protection onboard cameras and our video anonymization in aerial videos. The key idea of TrustEYE is to protect access to the […]
New COMET center on resilience in networked systems
Multidrone mission specification and execution
Minimizing idleness in multi-robot patrolling
Multidrone flight demonstration
Multidrone constellation changes
Privacy-protection research in 3sat science show nano
Persistent surveillance with multiple robots
Self-awareness for autonomous systems
More cyber security for intelligent cameras
Self-calibration of visual sensor networks