Development of Positioning and Switching Algorithms for a Swarm of Robots

Student: Kotosov Aleksandr

Faculty: HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE)

Educational Programme: Applied Mathematics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

This qualification work considers the problem of providing the possibility for remote testing of algorithms for crowd behavior on a prototype installation. The paper deals with the main ideas of crowd behavior, difficulties in positioning and controlling the crowd, and variations in adjusting and controlling the movement of the crowd members. Positioning is implemented using computer vision, ArUco markers, and the OpenCV library. Communication and control of robots is carried out by means of communication via a local server, to which all robots are connected. In addition, an example of a crowd algorithm for positioning robots is considered.

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