Dan Stormont

AAAI Conference 2000 Conference Paper

The Blue Swarm

• Dan Stormont

There are a number of robotics applications that require covering a large area thoroughly and in a minimum amount of time. For these types of applications, a swarm of robots can be an ideal solution. The Utah State University entry in the Urban Search and Rescue competition is the Blue Swarm, named after the Utah State University mascot, "Big Blue". This swarm was developed as part of a two year engineering project, so the swarm being developed for the AAAI 2000 Robotics Competition is just an interim capability. This paper describes the current and planned capabilities for the Blue Swarm.

AAAI Conference 1999 Conference Paper

Web-Based Mobile Robot Simulator

• Dan Stormont
• Utah State University

Many roboticists rely on simulation during the early phases of developing navigation algorithms for their autonomous mobile robots. While many commercial robots now come with robust development environments that include visual simulators, these tools aren’t available to robotics researchers who are working with a custom-built robot or who have not yet determined which commercial robot will satisfy their requirements. Even researchers using one of the commercial development environments will have difficulty sharing their simulation results with colleagues or others who do not have access to the commercial development tools. Believing that the ability to share simulation results visually with the greatest number of people would be an important capability to have led to the development of the web-based simulation approach described in this paper.

AAAI Conference 1997 Conference Paper

Lobokhod: The University of New Mexico’s Robotic Mars Rover

• Dan Stormont
• Timothy Eyring
• Salamon Quintana
• Ray Byrne