Development and Evaluation of Sensor Concepts for Ageless Aerospace Vehicles: Report 6 - Development and Demonstration of a Self-Organizing Diagnostic System for Structural Health MonitoringThis report describes a significant advance in the capability of the CSIRO/NASA structural health monitoring Concept Demonstrator (CD). The main thrust of the work has been the development of a mobile robotic agent, and the hardware and software modifications and developments required to enable the demonstrator to operate as a single, self-organizing, multi-agent system. This single-robot system is seen as the forerunner of a system in which larger numbers of small robots perform inspection and repair tasks cooperatively, by self-organization. While the goal of demonstrating self-organized damage diagnosis was not fully achieved in the time available, much of the work required for the final element that enables the robot to point the video camera and transmit an image has been completed. A demonstration video of the CD and robotic systems operating will be made and forwarded to NASA.
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20100003377
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Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Batten, Adam (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Lindfield, Australia)
Edwards, Graeme (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Lindfield, Australia)
Gerasimov, Vadim (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Lindfield, Australia)
Hoschke, Nigel (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Lindfield, Australia)
Isaacs, Peter (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Lindfield, Australia)
Lewis, Chris (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Lindfield, Australia)
Moore, Richard (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Lindfield, Australia)
Oppolzer, Florien (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Lindfield, Australia)
Price, Don (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Lindfield, Australia)
Prokopenko, Mikhail (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Lindfield, Australia)
Scott, Andrew (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Lindfield, Australia)
Wang, Peter (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Lindfield, Australia)