{"id":10911,"date":"2024-04-30T17:02:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/designcenter\/?p=10911"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:10:49","slug":"collaborating-robots-showcase-at-design-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/designcenter\/2024\/04\/30\/collaborating-robots-showcase-at-design-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborating Robots showcase at Design Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cFor our project, we designed a robust protocol to autonomously coordinate a group of devices, in which there is one leader selected and the rest work as followers. The system is designed to adapt for devices dropping out of the network unexpectedly and for new devices to easily join the group. This protocol can be applied to any scenario with autonomous devices that have independent tasks. For example, in a search and rescue situation, a large number of automated search vehicles could employ this protocol to effectively survey a large area in a parallelized approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our interactive demonstration uses Raspberry Pi computers as devices, which will work together to perform the task of playing a song. Each device will be assigned a different part (piano, saxophone, etc.) of the piece, clearly showing how distinct tasks are synchronously completed. Any device can be deactivated or reactivated through its touchscreen, and the status of the network can be seen in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preston Gonzales, Kayleigh Huk, and Dhilan Patel will show off their orchestra demo on May 1. #jhucompsci<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-d445cf74 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-medium-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/designcenter\/design-gallery\/entry\/11873\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more about this project in the Design Gallery<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This #DesignDay24 team designed a robust control system to autonomously coordinate a group of robots that can adapt to any device disconnecting or joining their swarm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":10920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-day-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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