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Robots and Agriculture: Virtual Fences for Animals
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:52)
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We wish to monitor and control the position of herd animals at fine granularity to improve he management of pastures and herds.
In collaboration with Dean Anderson from the USDA we developed wearable devices for cattle. Each animal in the herd is given a smart collar consisting of a GPS, PDA, wireless networking and a sound amplifier. Using the GPS, the animal’s location can be verified relative to the fence boundary. When approaching the perimeter, the animal is presented with a sound stimulus whose effect is to move away. We have developed the virtual fence control algorithm for moving a herd and used it to collect animal data and to automatically gather animals. Our field experiments were conducted at the USDA?s Jornada Research facility in New Mexico.
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Robots and Agriculture: Virtual Fences for Animals
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:52)
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We wish to monitor and control the position of herd animals at fine granularity to improve he management of pastures and herds.
In collaboration with Dean Anderson from the USDA we developed wearable devices for cattle. Each animal in the herd is given a smart collar consisting of a GPS, PDA, wireless networking and a sound amplifier. Using the GPS, the animal’s location can be verified relative to the fence boundary. When approaching the perimeter, the animal is presented with a sound stimulus whose effect is to move away. We have developed the virtual fence control algorithm for moving a herd and used it to collect animal data and to automatically gather animals. Our field experiments were conducted at the USDA?s Jornada Research facility in New Mexico.
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Robots and Agriculture: Virtual Fences for Animals
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:52)
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We wish to monitor and control the position of herd animals at fine granularity to improve he management of pastures and herds.
In collaboration with Dean Anderson from the USDA we developed wearable devices for cattle. Each animal in the herd is given a smart collar consisting of a GPS, PDA, wireless networking and a sound amplifier. Using the GPS, the animal’s location can be verified relative to the fence boundary. When approaching the perimeter, the animal is presented with a sound stimulus whose effect is to move away. We have developed the virtual fence control algorithm for moving a herd and used it to collect animal data and to automatically gather animals. Our field experiments were conducted at the USDA?s Jornada Research facility in New Mexico.
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Robots and Art: Seraph
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:49)
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Seraph is a robot-human dance.
This piece explores the relationship between man and machine in a pastoral fable involving a dancer and two flying robots. Set to a Schubert piano trio, the resulting work explores the expressive potential of machines, presenting in the process a commentary on the fundamental nature of dance. Seraph was performed at the Cutler Majestic theater in Boston in 2010 and at the Joyce Theater in New York City during the 2011 summer season.
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Robots and Art: Seraph
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:49)
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Seraph is a robot-human dance.
This piece explores the relationship between man and machine in a pastoral fable involving a dancer and two flying robots. Set to a Schubert piano trio, the resulting work explores the expressive potential of machines, presenting in the process a commentary on the fundamental nature of dance. Seraph was performed at the Cutler Majestic theater in Boston in 2010 and at the Joyce Theater in New York City during the 2011 summer season.
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Robots and Art: Seraph
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:49)
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Seraph is a robot-human dance.
This piece explores the relationship between man and machine in a pastoral fable involving a dancer and two flying robots. Set to a Schubert piano trio, the resulting work explores the expressive potential of machines, presenting in the process a commentary on the fundamental nature of dance. Seraph was performed at the Cutler Majestic theater in Boston in 2010 and at the Joyce Theater in New York City during the 2011 summer season.
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Robots and Art: The Umbrella Project
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:44)
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The Umbrella Project (UP) is a large-scape participatory experiment in which hundreds of participants light up the night?s sky.
The participants use the color-changing umbrellas to create images that are projected in real time on a large screen, and use this feedback along with high-level human instructions to cause the image to change. UP gives a group of untrained people umbrellas and 60 minutes to create something beautiful and moving.
The experiment is an exploration of the power of groups and the idea that groups are more capable than the sum of their parts. This project is the result of our second collaboration with Pilobolus. It was performed at PopTech in October 2012 and at MIT in May 2013. The roots of the project are in the research on collaborative decision making for robots at MIT. The Umbrella Project allows the exploration of theories on collaboration in the context of crowds and enables the extraction of hypotheses for future biologically-grounded approaches to rob ...
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Robots and Art: The Umbrella Project
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:44)
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The Umbrella Project (UP) is a large-scape participatory experiment in which hundreds of participants light up the night?s sky.
The participants use the color-changing umbrellas to create images that are projected in real time on a large screen, and use this feedback along with high-level human instructions to cause the image to change. UP gives a group of untrained people umbrellas and 60 minutes to create something beautiful and moving.
The experiment is an exploration of the power of groups and the idea that groups are more capable than the sum of their parts. This project is the result of our second collaboration with Pilobolus. It was performed at PopTech in October 2012 and at MIT in May 2013. The roots of the project are in the research on collaborative decision making for robots at MIT. The Umbrella Project allows the exploration of theories on collaboration in the context of crowds and enables the extraction of hypotheses for future biologically-grounded approaches to rob ...
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Robots and Art: The Umbrella Project
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:44)
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The Umbrella Project (UP) is a large-scape participatory experiment in which hundreds of participants light up the night?s sky.
The participants use the color-changing umbrellas to create images that are projected in real time on a large screen, and use this feedback along with high-level human instructions to cause the image to change. UP gives a group of untrained people umbrellas and 60 minutes to create something beautiful and moving.
The experiment is an exploration of the power of groups and the idea that groups are more capable than the sum of their parts. This project is the result of our second collaboration with Pilobolus. It was performed at PopTech in October 2012 and at MIT in May 2013. The roots of the project are in the research on collaborative decision making for robots at MIT. The Umbrella Project allows the exploration of theories on collaboration in the context of crowds and enables the extraction of hypotheses for future biologically-grounded approaches to rob ...
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Education Project: The Robot Garden
from Daniela Rus
(2015/10/8 1:33)
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Computational thinking is an important part of a modern education, and robotics provides a powerful tool for teaching programming logic in an interactive and engaging way.
We are developing a robot garden: a distributed multi-robot system consisting of robot flowers, robot sheep, and robot ducks. The garden is capable of running autonomously or under user control from a simple graphical interface. Over 100 origami flowers are actuated with LEDs and printed pouch motors, and are deployed in a modular array around additional swimming and crawling folded robots. The movement and color appearance of the robots can be controlled.
The garden integrates rapid design and fabrication technologies with distributed systems software techniques to create a scalable swarm in which robots can be controlled individually or as a group. The garden can be used to program and visualize the behavior of classical graph algorithms and distributed graph algorithms. The execution sequence of such algorith ...
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