Atta-Bots: Adaptaciones, comportamientos y funcionalidades en el marco de los proyectos PROE

The use of multirobot systems allows solving problems associated with planning optimal, efficient
and safe routes in cases of emergency, victim location in cases of disaster like fires landslides or
identification of food sources. Where it is necessary not only the exploration of the environments
but also its digitalization. Although this task can be done by humans, in scenarios with dangerous,
unstable or difficult access, these systems save resources and protect the humans.
In that sense, two research projects have been proposed and implemented within so called PROE
(Planificación de rutas óptimas por medio de enjambres) research framework. On project PROE
E1F1 a group of techniques for data gathering, transfer and processing by using simulated robots
swarms were developed. It had the objetive of area mapping and determination of safe
evacuation/access routes. Then, on project PROE E1F2 a physic and multirobot system was
designed and implemented to explore unknown static scenarios and determine optimal routes
through a translation and adaptation of the computational exploration algorithms investigated. On
project PROE E1F1. Also, PROE E1F2 developed a multirobot system with 15 individual robots,
named Atta-Bots. Atta-Bots are capable of executing exploration and mapping behaviors by using
sensor fusion technologies with infrared sensors, gyroscopes and odometry. They are also capable
of wireless communication by radio frequency to a base device, in order to transmit exploration data
in real time. However, during the process there are always possibilities for improving, changing and
adapting to new technologies and needs, this is precisely the reason for this proposal.
On the other hand, the most research on swarm robotic area is limited to studies based on computer
simulations, often far from reality. Therefore, the problem to be dealt is directly related to the existing
gap between simulated swarms and real robots. Thus, this proposal aims to design new behaviors
and functionalities, adapted to the Atta-Bots built on PROE E1F2, to reduce the uncertainty between
simulations and real applications, such as foraging, agregation, dispersion y collaborative trasport.
On the previous project, a communication protocol was developed of the type of robot to central
server. Now it is pretended to extend that protocol to allow communication within robots. Currently,
the designed mutirobot system follows a sequential process of exploration-mapping-optimization;
but this proposal looks to improve that execution by making it simultaneous. Finally, it is pretended
to develop new collaborative robots beahviours to extend and extract the techonological capabilities
of Atta-Bots.
The project PROE sequence intends to place the TEC at the forefront, not only at the national level
but also internationally, in the research area of swarm robotics that allows to find complex tasks
with not so complex and low-cost mechanisms, by means of new national collaborations, expansion
and improvement of the previous results.

Diseñar nuevos comportamientos y funcionalidades en los Atta-Bots
construidos en PROE: E1F2 para disminuir la incertidumbre entre lo simulado y lo real

- Escuela de Matemática:
Matemática aplicada: modelación, simulación, inteligencia artificial, análisis de datos, visualización de
información, optimización y aplicaciones a la ingeniería y a las ciencias.
- Área de Ingeniería Mecatrónica:
Área de Hábitat: digitalización de entornos humanos, determinación de dimensiones físicas en edificios
y alrededores, cumplimiento de leyes de accesibilidad, determinación de rutas óptimas.