Overview

The main objective of the CROMAT project is the development of new methods and techniques for the cooperation of aerial and ground mobile robots. It is intended to develop technologies that could be used in applications such as inspection of utilities, infrastructure and large buildings, disaster detection and monitoring (fires, floods, volcano eruptions, earthquakes), exploration, surveillance, urban safety, humanitarian demining. The project also intends to contribute to the development of the aerial robotics, which is a field that will have an important development in this decade, fuelled by the progress in Microsystems, with many new applications.

Taking into account the objectives and activities to be developed in the project, CROMAT is a coordinated project with three Subprojects that share a common Workpackage devoted to the design and development of a new control architecture for the coordination of aerial and ground mobile robots. The first Subproject, leaded by the University of Sevilla, is devoted to the development of a platform for aerial robotics based on a RC helicopter and its integration with a ground mobile robot. The second, leaded by the University of Malaga, deals with teleoperation and cooperation of mobile robots, and the third Subproject, leaded by the University of Vigo, is devoted to the development of helicopter control techniques.

HERO Autonomous Helicopter

ROMEO-4R carrying HERO

AURIGA ground robot

The above figures show the three robots involved in the CROMAT demosntration experiments and coordination.

Spanish web page: http://grvc.us.es/cromat/us