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CREATED:20171114T151126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T151126Z
LOCATION:Cheek Hall 204
SUMMARY:Faculty Presentation: Evolving Adabot: A Mobile Robot with Adjusta
 ble Wheel Extensions
DESCRIPTION:Computer Science Assistant Professor\, Dr. Tony Clark will mak
 e a presentation entitled Evolving Adabot: A Mobile Robot with Adjustable
  Wheel Extensions.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract:\n\n\n Robots are increasingly bei
 ng utilized in unstructured environments. Autonomous mobile robots are be
 ing assigned with tasks that are either too difficult or too dangerous fo
 r people. For instance\, search and rescue robots can be deployed in unst
 able environments to aid in the search for disaster victims. In this talk
 \, we propose a novel design for an autonomous mobile robot that can dyna
 mically adjust traction during runtime. Our device\, called "Adabot\," me
 aning adaptive robot\, is small\, has a simple design\, and can extend we
 gs from its wheels by adjustable amounts. We optimize both the morphology
  and the control parameters of Adabot using differential evolution\, and 
 our simulation results show that Adabot is effectively able to take advan
 tage of both purely wheeled locomotion and legged-wheel locomotion by tra
 nsitioning automatically between these two modes.
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 mputer Science Assistant Professor\, Dr. Tony Clark will make a presentat
 ion entitled Evolving Adabot: A Mobile Robot with Adjustable Wheel Extens
 ions.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Abstract:&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span face="Times New Roman" siz
 e="3"&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span face="Calibri" size="3"&gt;Robots are increasingly
  being utilized in unstructured environments. Autonomous mobile robots ar
 e being assigned with tasks that are either too difficult or too dangerou
 s for people. For instance\, search and rescue robots can be deployed in 
 unstable environments to aid in the search for disaster victims. In this 
 talk\, we propose a novel design for an autonomous mobile robot that can 
 dynamically adjust traction during runtime. Our device\, called "Adabot\,
 " meaning adaptive robot\, is small\, has a simple design\, and can exten
 d wegs from its wheels by adjustable amounts. We optimize both the morpho
 logy and the control parameters of Adabot using differential evolution\, 
 and our simulation results show that Adabot is effectively able to take a
 dvantage of both purely wheeled locomotion and legged-wheel locomotion by
  transitioning automatically between these two modes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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