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Proposer

Alistair Mcconnell

Title

Path Planning Optimisation of a Robotic Platform in Simulated Radiation Contaminated Environment

Goal

To work on path planning optimisation for a mobile robotics platform

Description

Robots have the potential to remove humans from hazardous environments, one such environment could be a radiation-contaminated building. Radiation is still a danger to robots and overexposure can lead to damaged equipment. This project would be to work on path planning optimisation using a mobile robotic platform to navigate a room with simulated radioactive hot spots. Suggested background reading: "vPlanSim: An Open Source Graphical Interface for the Visualisation and Simulation of AI Systems by Jamie O. Roberts, Georgios Mastorakis, Brad Lazaruk, Santiago Franco, Adam A. Stokes, Sara Bernardini" and "Modular Robots for Enabling Operations in Unstructured Extreme Environments by Mohammed E Sayed, Jamie O Roberts, Karen Donaldson, Stephen T Mahon, Faiz Iqbal, Boyang Li, Santiago Franco Aixela, Georgios Mastorakis, Emil T Jonasson, Markus P Nemitz, Sara Bernardini, Adam A Stokes" Desire to work in ROS and in Gazebo is required

Resources

Access to the Construct Sim and ROSBot if required

Background

Url

Difficulty Level

High

Ethical Approval

None

Number Of Students

2

Supervisor

Alistair Mcconnell

Keywords

path planning optimisation, ros, gazebo, robotics

Degrees

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Master of Engineering in Software Engineering
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence with SMI
Master of Science in Robotics
Master of Science in Software Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Computing Science