Towards command and control networking of cooperative autonomous robotics for military applications (CARMA)

Abstract

This research focuses on the development of a network of cooperative autonomous robotics for military applications (CARMA) that work together to search, track, carry, deploy and retrieve sensor and other small payloads for a variety of purposes. CARMA addresses how the distributed hierarchical structure employed by the military is ideally suited as an efficient and robust model for distributed cooperative robotics that reduces the operator-to-robot ratio, which until now has been mostly biologically-inspired.