Cooperative system and method using mobile robots for testing a cooperative search controller
| Patent Number: | 6,408,226 |
| Issued: | 6/18/2002 |
| Official Filing: | View the Complete Patent |
| Abstract: | A test system for testing a controller provides a way to use large numbers of miniature mobile robots to test a cooperative search controller in a test area, where each mobile robot has a sensor, a communication device, a processor, and a memory. A method of using a test system provides a way for testing a cooperative search controller using multiple robots sharing information and communicating over a communication network. |
| Filed: | 4/24/2001 |
| Application Number: | 9/841,846 |
| Government Interests: | STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |