MultiRobot Lab Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS)

The MultiRobot Lab MARS Project is funded under the DARPA/IPTO MARS program.

Project Objectives

Develop complete, effective and scalable software for autonomous robot teams. Demonstrate robot teams with integrated perception, reasoning, learning, communication and cooperative strategies that solve complex multiagent tasks.

Researchers

Faculty
• Manuela Veloso, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
• Brett Browning, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
• Paul Rybski, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Current Students

• James Bruce, CS PhD Student
• Scott Lenser, CS PhD Student
• Doug Vail, CS PhD Student
• Sonia Chernova, CS PhD Student
• Mayaan Roth, CS PhD Student
• Dinesh Govindaraju, CS UG Student
• Jennifer Lin, CS UG Student
• Michael Sokolsky, MechE UG Student

Alumni

• Michael Bowling.
• Tucker Balch
• Ashley Stroupe, Robotics PhD Student (advised by Prof. Tucker Balch)

Presentations and Reports for DARPA

August 1999	Project Summary html Presentation html ppt Quad Chart html ppt
February, 2000	Presentation html ppt
May 2000	Presentation html ppt
July 2000	Project Summary html Quad Chart html ppt
March 2001	Presentation ppt
July 2001	Project Summary html Quad Chart ppt
February 2002	Presentation ppt
July 2002	Project Summary html Quad Chart ppt
December 2002	Project Summary html
April 2003	Project Summary html
June 2003	Project Summary html Quad Chart ppt
September 2003	Presentations: MARS SegwayRMP
August 2004	Final Project Summary html Quad Chart

Technology Transfer

The following robot designs and software funded under the MARS program have been developed by us and released to the community:
• CMPack'02 Sony AIBO robot soccer software.
• CMDragons'02 small-size robot soccer software.
• UberSim Open source robot soccer simulator project.
• CMVision realtime color vision software.
• CMUnited simulated robot soccer software.
• Additional software can be found at our download site

The following are our actual project sites

• Main robot soccer site.
• CMPack'02 Sony AIBO team.
• CMDragons'02 smallsize robot soccer team.
• CMUnited simulated robot soccer team.