Have you ever considered doing explanations on State Space Modern Control Theory? I love your videos btw. Your clear, concise, well-formatted, and intelligent videos are hard to beat. Keep up the good work.
I have considered it! And have been working on a script for the introduction to modern control theory for about 2 months now ... it's just not ready yet. I hope to re-write it soon and start that series of videos. Thanks for the comment!
+Brian Douglas Hmm I think that would be a wonderful next step after the videos you have. Please do continue! I intend to follow in your footsteps and eventually work in asteroid mining as well!
Brian you are my new favorite person on youtube, I have learned a wealth of information from you and I only found your channel a few days ago. Your teaching methods are on point and I can't be thankful enough that you are sharing all your knowledge with people like me who love this stuff!
We feel great when we see videos like this, because that's when we get knowledge of applying what we are studying and it enhances our ideas too. Thank you so much for showing this video to us and make us feel awesome.. Well "us" in swarm perspective..;)
This video has no reference to my upcoming exam but still I am watching. I know that I will gain something from your videos by the way you explain the topic so clearly and precisely.
Many of these problems were solved earlier than you know. In the early 1990's I did pioneering work in this area - before the term "swarm robotics" even existed. There was a Japanese roboticist who may have built a "swarm" before I did, as he published a book about it in 1992. There was doubtless someone thinking about this even earlier, as the concept of "grey goo" goes back to the 1960's.
This is a great video to start with. Thanks for sharing. SWARM robotics is what I've always want to delve into since my Bachelors. Precisely, I was looking to solve the environmental disaster with field fire outbreak in the summer during heat waves. I can see from your video that there are lots of ideas in that area, and would love to see how I can contribute to that body of knowledge for my Masters in Robotics and Automation Engineering. Thanks once again.
Interesting, just found this video again. We never heard from anyone related to our message. We are now working on c controlling the Robomaster TT with IR controllers and the mind+ program.
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Brian....this totally Rocks...thank you for the vid about Rain. This type of tech has many potential applications. My interest is to apply this to agriculture. Individual in-depth mapping of plant conditions in multi-fields could be done routinely and cheaply by this method. Input to a data base to predict crop yields...areas of weed and insect infestation ....monitoring of plant growth and therefore soil conditions, as well as soil moisture levels, so irrigation can be used more efficiently and timely. Robots have a great future in Agriculture. Build 'em cheap....Build 'em Fast.
Good to have you back! Great video and motivation while reading for my control system exam next week. Your videos have been of great help to understand control system engineering!
Love the videos, keep them coming, I'm only a sophomore at ASU as an aerospace engineering and these have me excited as to what I will be working with. (Concentration of autonomous vehicle system)
your videos on here are so helpful that they could literally replace like half of the courses in my Process Automation program at McMaster, I should be paying you 10 grand a year instead dude :P
Brain Douglas!! You really awesome man. I have seen all you control system videos, you explained really well and now these robotics videos are interesting too. Thanks for sharing your knowledge to everyone.
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Thanks so much Brian! you did a great job. You have support me a lot with my studying!
Thanks for making such high quality videos. I'm pretty sure this is a field that I want to move towards. I'm starting controls next semester and will definitely be watching your videos
There is also the Vicsek model for active matter that is very similar to the way the robots aligned themselves in the example. I will build a robotic swarm in the near future I got a grant and I am interested in this type of research.
Brilliant video. I am trying to do something similar with four differential drive robots and a motion capture system. Right now I am just looking at obstacle avoidance, but later I will try to incorporate swarm interaction. Have you seen the videos on the dynamics of starling bird flocks? Someday I hope to get that good. :)
I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing your results when you get your obstacle ovoidance working. If you happen to film it in action and put it up on UA-cam you can link it to this video so everyone can find it. I have seen the starling bird flock videos ... very impressive. Cheers!
hello Brian am an undergraduate mechanical and industrial engineering student at the university of South africa, i so like your videos, but i really would appreciate if you could do some videos on state space models. thanks
I am interested in the In-Situ utilization of orbital debris. Orbital drone swarms seam to have potential to solve many of the challenges of capture of smaller Orbital debris particles (10cm
Are the markers on the robots' transparent plastic surface for tracking the motions of the robots ? Are them from NDI measurement ? If so, the environment is a bit bright, then the tracking accuracy is to be influenced.
compensating for other aerodynamic effects will be hard, for example things like vortices and wake trails, how do you plan on solving these problems for larger aircraft?
I am very curious about those omni-directional "Sheila" robots, and they way they can tell if they are too far from or too close to their friends. How is that done? I would think that GPS would not have the resolution I am seeing here. What kind of sensors are they using?
He said that it's too complicated for humans to direct swarms, but real time strategy games use much more complex system. Just replicate those patterns and you can make them controllable.
That's what I was thinking. What's this all about ? It doesn't seem like a big open problem rather than a software challenge , am I missing something? "Problems that haven't been solved before " ???
Hi, nice explanatory video on distributed algorithms. I have gained a lot of control knowledge from your videos. Do you plan to cover videos on robot dynamics and simulation? Thanks a lot.
Thanks, Brian ! that was a really interesting and informative video. But can you give me any source for consensus algorithm for quadcopters with implementation.
Hi brianbdouglas Is intel using same method for their intel Shooting Star drones or using just RTK GPS & pre animated flight plans methods to control it?
In a system shown above, do the robots know their position? when a robot is kept at random point, does that work on the basis of its position or it just detects the obstacle, measure distance and corrects its own?
What happens when the root node malfunctions and no longer receive commands from the transmitter? Does the network of nodes decide who the next leader is? Kind of reminds me of RIP or OSPF on routers....
well hi brian douglas..m thinking of doing swarms robotics with 4 quadcopters ..which sensors will b used to communicate with the four to b sync with each other ??
What to do when self assembling robots are in a humans body, programmed to create a mind control circuit? Hypothetical, of course How to stop the self assemblage? PEMF? What kind of PEMF would stop it, rather than give it energy to fuel it?
What happens when one of the bots in a swarm behaves anomalous and influences others in same swarm to work in a malicious manner? How to isolate these anomalous robots from swarm?
the setup explored in the video is that the swarm has adopted a coordination mechanism that runs autonomously on the robots. we allow the human(s) to interact with a subset of the robots; the idea is to have an interface between the human operator and the swarm that is simple, scalable, with minimal computational overhead.
I've done all of this making video games as a hobby and only have a high school diploma. What should I do if I want to team up with the people working on this and contribute?
Awesome Brain Douglas..! :-) How long does it take for you to do this kind of video? Doesn't it affect your daily job? Or is this your daily job :P? BTW, you have any idea to start the online courses for control systems..?
Brian made a video in which he explains how he makes his normal videos (check the Control System Lectures playlist). Takes quite a lot of work, but it definitely shows! you could check if edx.org offers anything. A while ago they offered a MOOC on UAV control (free to audit).
MrSCFV Thanks for getting to this question first. @Ajayvignesh They do take some time but most of it is in the scripting and story telling and only a few hours in the actual drawing, voiceover, and editing work. I make sure this doesn't affect my daily job (which is not this) and that's why it's 6 months since the last video!!
Thanks MrSCFV I highly appreciate applause your efforts Brian Douglas . Few courses are supposed to learn with hands on ; but not virtually. Controls Systems is one such. With your excellence in bringing it up to utmost clarity, I hope you will conduct an online control system course sooner, which is as of now very hard to learn virtually.
Have you ever considered doing explanations on State Space Modern Control Theory?
I love your videos btw. Your clear, concise, well-formatted, and intelligent videos are hard to beat. Keep up the good work.
I have considered it! And have been working on a script for the introduction to modern control theory for about 2 months now ... it's just not ready yet. I hope to re-write it soon and start that series of videos. Thanks for the comment!
Brian Douglas I would be even more forever grateful than I am already!
+Brian Douglas Hmm I think that would be a wonderful next step after the videos you have. Please do continue! I intend to follow in your footsteps and eventually work in asteroid mining as well!
@@BrianBDouglas Hello, still waiting for the script on state space
Nice to see your channel active again. Keep it up and running. Thanks.
Brian you are my new favorite person on youtube, I have learned a wealth of information from you and I only found your channel a few days ago. Your teaching methods are on point and I can't be thankful enough that you are sharing all your knowledge with people like me who love this stuff!
We feel great when we see videos like this, because that's when we get knowledge of applying what we are studying and it enhances our ideas too.
Thank you so much for showing this video to us and make us feel awesome..
Well "us" in swarm perspective..;)
I'd love a more current version of this!
This video has no reference to my upcoming exam but still I am watching. I know that I will gain something from your videos by the way you explain the topic so clearly and precisely.
Many of these problems were solved earlier than you know. In the early 1990's I did pioneering work in this area - before the term "swarm robotics" even existed. There was a Japanese roboticist who may have built a "swarm" before I did, as he published a book about it in 1992. There was doubtless someone thinking about this even earlier, as the concept of "grey goo" goes back to the 1960's.
To simplify, they're teaching robots how to social distance themselves from other robots
This is a great video to start with. Thanks for sharing. SWARM robotics is what I've always want to delve into since my Bachelors. Precisely, I was looking to solve the environmental disaster with field fire outbreak in the summer during heat waves. I can see from your video that there are lots of ideas in that area, and would love to see how I can contribute to that body of knowledge for my Masters in Robotics and Automation Engineering.
Thanks once again.
Interesting, just found this video again. We never heard from anyone related to our message. We are now working on c controlling the Robomaster TT with IR controllers and the mind+ program.
Brian....this totally Rocks...thank you for the vid about Rain. This type of tech has many potential applications. My interest is to apply this to agriculture. Individual in-depth mapping of plant conditions in multi-fields could be done routinely and cheaply by this method. Input to a data base to predict crop yields...areas of weed and insect infestation ....monitoring of plant growth and therefore soil conditions, as well as soil moisture levels, so irrigation can be used more efficiently and timely. Robots have a great future in Agriculture. Build 'em cheap....Build 'em Fast.
Good to have you back! Great video and motivation while reading for my control system exam next week. Your videos have been of great help to understand control system engineering!
Love the videos, keep them coming, I'm only a sophomore at ASU as an aerospace engineering and these have me excited as to what I will be working with. (Concentration of autonomous vehicle system)
Great video! How is it possible this only has 50K views after 5 years.
Can't stop watching your vids. Some cool stuff right here
your videos on here are so helpful that they could literally replace like half of the courses in my Process Automation program at McMaster, I should be paying you 10 grand a year instead dude :P
this is so cool , that i am so eager to share with my entire school
Brain Douglas!! You really awesome man. I have seen all you control system videos, you explained really well and now these robotics videos are interesting too. Thanks for sharing your knowledge to everyone.
Thanks so much Brian! you did a great job. You have support me a lot with my studying!
Thanks for making such high quality videos. I'm pretty sure this is a field that I want to move towards.
I'm starting controls next semester and will definitely be watching your videos
Brilliant project congratulations
Great stuff! Glad you're back :D
Brian Douglas I love your videos and explanations thank you so much
Thank you for all this.
Keep it up, won't miss a thing
Came here to learn more about Control Theory. Left here to go apply to UW!
Awesome, and as always thanks for sharing
I am super late. Nevertheless, thanks a lot for helping to disseminate the amazing topic of swarm robotics in control theory!
Cool video Brian!
Excellent presentation. Thank you
There is also the Vicsek model for active matter that is very similar to the way the robots aligned themselves in the example.
I will build a robotic swarm in the near future I got a grant and I am interested in this type of research.
Very interesting video, looking forward to seeing more of the same kind :)
Nice of you to dress up for the show!
Brilliant video. I am trying to do something similar with four differential drive robots and a motion capture system. Right now I am just looking at obstacle avoidance, but later I will try to incorporate swarm interaction. Have you seen the videos on the dynamics of starling bird flocks? Someday I hope to get that good. :)
I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing your results when you get your obstacle ovoidance working. If you happen to film it in action and put it up on UA-cam you can link it to this video so everyone can find it. I have seen the starling bird flock videos ... very impressive. Cheers!
+Arun Lakshmanan Could you please provide the link to that video?
thank you so much for the video bro !
hello Brian am an undergraduate mechanical and industrial engineering student at the university of South africa, i so like your videos, but i really would appreciate if you could do some videos on state space models. thanks
I am interested in the In-Situ utilization of orbital debris. Orbital drone swarms seam to have potential to solve many of the challenges of capture of smaller Orbital debris particles (10cm
dear NSA agent assigned to my case,
i just want to get some drones to pick up trash in my room i swear 🤣🤣🤣
(8:10） why theta dot(which is u2) equals to sum of sine(theta difference) but not sum of theta difference, theta dot equals u2, isn't it?
Are the markers on the robots' transparent plastic surface for tracking the motions of the robots ? Are them from NDI measurement ? If so, the environment is a bit bright, then the tracking accuracy is to be influenced.
You are the best
It's so interesting, thank you
compensating for other aerodynamic effects will be hard, for example things like vortices and wake trails, how do you plan on solving these problems for larger aircraft?
have you installed a gimbal device on one?
I am very curious about those omni-directional "Sheila" robots, and they way they can tell if they are too far from or too close to their friends. How is that done? I would think that GPS would not have the resolution I am seeing here. What kind of sensors are they using?
Thank you!
superb ..thanks for sharing
4:43 "you can try to generate pathological cases where they try to avoid each other"
Thanks..!!! This is Awesome!!!
bravo Brian & UW
He said that it's too complicated for humans to direct swarms, but real time strategy games use much more complex system. Just replicate those patterns and you can make them controllable.
That's what I was thinking.
What's this all about ? It doesn't seem like a big open problem rather than a software challenge , am I missing something?
"Problems that haven't been solved before " ???
Very informative..thanks very much
Cool vid but do u not see dat there are Omni directional wheels irl so cars can move sideways
Hi, nice explanatory video on distributed algorithms. I have gained a lot of control knowledge from your videos. Do you plan to cover videos on robot dynamics and simulation? Thanks a lot.
Thanks, Brian ! that was a really interesting and informative video. But can you give me any source for consensus algorithm for quadcopters with implementation.
Hi brianbdouglas
Is intel using same method for their intel Shooting Star drones or using just RTK GPS & pre animated flight plans methods to control it?
Is this area of swarm algorithm controls systems? Or is it motion planning? Or Optimisation (Operations Research)?
04:50 social distancing robots
In a system shown above, do the robots know their position? when a robot is kept at random point, does that work on the basis of its position or it just detects the obstacle, measure distance and corrects its own?
hi sir!!
please let me know the software you use create those animations in your video..
i wish you make a tutorial about this project
What happens when the root node malfunctions and no longer receive commands from the transmitter? Does the network of nodes decide who the next leader is? Kind of reminds me of RIP or OSPF on routers....
what was the sensor that used to identify the distance between each robot ???
well hi brian douglas..m thinking of doing swarms robotics with 4 quadcopters ..which sensors will b used to communicate with the four to b sync with each other ??
thank you very much sir
What to do when self assembling robots are in a humans body, programmed to create a mind control circuit?
Hypothetical, of course
How to stop the self assemblage?
PEMF?
What kind of PEMF would stop it, rather than give it energy to fuel it?
To stop it from assembling I'm thinking to either reprogram it, or fry it out/short circuit it.
But, how?
Potentially command them to go to the intestines, to then disassemble and die. Which they then can be washed out through the intestines
You could use artificial evolution to create the rules for individuals in the swarm, or even try PPO
what technology does the robots use for positioning?
Seems more complicated than it was for me thirty years ago...in 1993, I created what I believe to be the world's first robot "swarm".
Awesome
How can get internships to work on such fields
It’s a sunny day！
Los robots at minute 4:50 were predicting the future. Always backing up and keeping safety distance
I like it
What happens when one of the bots in a swarm behaves anomalous and influences others in same swarm to work in a malicious manner? How to isolate these anomalous robots from swarm?
Wouldn't an operating system developed specifically for Swarm interaction be a good way for Human-Swarm Interaction?
the setup explored in the video is that the swarm has adopted a coordination mechanism that runs autonomously on the robots. we allow the human(s) to interact with a subset of the robots; the idea is to have an interface between the human operator and the swarm that is simple, scalable, with minimal computational overhead.
I've done all of this making video games as a hobby and only have a high school diploma. What should I do if I want to team up with the people working on this and contribute?
Awesome Brain Douglas..! :-) How long does it take for you to do this kind of video? Doesn't it affect your daily job? Or is this your daily job :P? BTW, you have any idea to start the online courses for control systems..?
Brian made a video in which he explains how he makes his normal videos (check the Control System Lectures playlist). Takes quite a lot of work, but it definitely shows!
you could check if edx.org offers anything. A while ago they offered a MOOC on UAV control (free to audit).
MrSCFV Thanks for getting to this question first. @Ajayvignesh They do take some time but most of it is in the scripting and story telling and only a few hours in the actual drawing, voiceover, and editing work. I make sure this doesn't affect my daily job (which is not this) and that's why it's 6 months since the last video!!
Thanks MrSCFV
I highly appreciate applause your efforts Brian Douglas . Few courses are supposed to learn with hands on ; but not virtually. Controls Systems is one such. With your excellence in bringing it up to utmost clarity, I hope you will conduct an online control system course sooner, which is as of now very hard to learn virtually.
Controlling dozens of individual agents is a problem solved in many PC games.
aged well !
In Soviet Russia, the Robotic Swarms control you
You lost me at about 7:30.
one word - EDITH (spider man far from home)
drone swarm
can u please arm those robots and use them to enforce law or military contest
Hmm... Lost hiker you say.... More like enemy target. Come on guys who are you kidding...
white beard O_O
Asimov solved this by giving his robots a religion.