Dear All,
Attached to this post, is a link to a video introducing ARGUS, a coordination system for unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) developed at the University of Southampton and deployed in collaboration with the Australian Center for Field Robotics (ACFR). ARGUS has been designed to support situational awareness for disaster management
settings. It is based on the max-sum algorithm, a well known
decentralised coordination algorithm for multi-agent systems. The video shows an interactive simulation environment, where a
user, acting as a first responder, submits imagery collection tasks to a
team of UAVs, which then use max-sum to assign themselves to the tasks.
Furthermore, it depicts one of a set of real flight tests, in which two Hexacopter
UAVs again use ARGUS to coordinate over tasks. The video is available here.