Thomas Schmickl
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The Year of CoCoRo Video #52/52: Final Demonstration
The Year of CoCoRo Video #52/52: Final Demonstration → Read More
The Year of CoCoRo Video #51/52: Big Vision
Our penultimate video features the initial “Big Vision” trailer we produced at the beginning of this project. The video showcases the basic components of the robotic system we targeted (surface station, relay chain, ground swarm) and how we imagined our collective of underwater robots forming coherent swarms. Our “Big Vision” helped us stay focussed on the project, ensuring that all project… → Read More
Scaling up underwater swarmbot research from tabletop ‘aquarium’ to the Venice Lagoon (CoCoRo Video #50/52)
Scaling up underwater swarmbot research from tabletop ‘aquarium’ to the Venice Lagoon (CoCoRo Video #50/52) → Read More
The Year of CoCoRo Video #49/52: Base stations
During the past year we have shown many swarm algorithms in various experiments. The spotlight was always on the Lily and the Jeff robots. However, there is now another star in the team and this trailer is dedicated to this special agent: the base station! The base station was finished towards the end of the project, thus, we had to develop (i.e. hack) many surrogates and placeholders for it… → Read More
The Year of CoCoRo Video #48/52: Workshops
Most of the videos from The Year of CoCoRo were shot during workshops we held throughout the project. These workshops, which were usually focussed on one or several specific demonstrators, were what drove our international team of collaborators to implement mechanical hardware, electronics and software into working installations. This form of workshop-driven development proved to be very… → Read More
The Year of CoCoRo Video #47/52: Underwater robots swarm at CEBIS consumer electronics show
The Year of CoCoRo Video #47/52: Underwater robots swarm at CEBIS consumer electronics show → Read More
The Year of CoCoRo Video #46/52: JeffShoaling
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – we’ll be uploading a new weekly video detailing the latest stage in its development. This week’s video shows an autonomous swarm of underwater robots coordinating their motion to form coherent shoals. The… → Read More