The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Principal Investigator: Yung-Hsiang Lu
This project will create a research infrastructure for computer vision and real-time control of autonomous mobile robots (both aerial and ground). The infrastructure includes four integrated components: (1) A Purdue laboratory decorated as miniature cities. (2) Simulators that reflect the physical laboratory. (3) Programmable aerial robots with the same interface as the simulators. (4) Sample solutions for research on artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robot control for evaluation and comparison. This infrastructure will be available to the research community in multiple ways: (1) Users can evaluate their solutions with the simulators in a safe virtual environment. (2) Users can upload their control programs and this team will launch the robots inside Purdue's laboratory. Users can observe the robots remotely using the high-speed cameras already deployed in the laboratory. (3) Users can bring their own robots to the laboratory and conduct experiments. (4) This project will create competitions for researchers to demonstrate their solutions using autonomous mobile robots in simulated emergency and rescue scenarios. The competitions will use miniature buildings and people for the robots to recognize and count objects (such as number of people, vehicles, and houses), assess situations (such as the number of collapsed bridges), while avoiding obstacles.
Other PIs: Shaoshuai Mou John Mott Shreyas Sundaram Wei Zakharov James Goppert
Other Faculty: Yiran Chen (Duke), Kate Saenko (Boston), Kristen Grauman (Texas)