MAIS+S Project: Follow the Robot
Article about the research project MAIS+S lead by Francisco Melo, from the ISR-L, and Manuela Veloso, from CMU. The project addresses the problem of planning in decentralized multi-agent systems in the context of intelligent surveillance networks. As a first result of this project it was created a robot called “Duke”, that it is being tested at the ISR in Lisbon.
The MAIS+S project is carried out in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, and involves researchers from INESC ID, Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, ISR Lisboa, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and the company Observit, Lda.
Read the full article in Portuguese at Exame Informática (May, 2013).