Aaron T. Becker's Robot Swarm Lab

University of Houston

Last seen: 3 months ago | Active since 2009

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http://swarmcontrol.net, http://www.youtube.com/aabecker5, https://sites.google.com/site/aabecker/ Aaron Becker's passion is robotics and control. Currently as an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, he is building a robotics lab. Previously as a Research Fellow with Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, he implemented robotics powered & controlled by the magnetic field of an MRI, in the Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering Lab with Pierre Dupont. As a Postdoc at Rice University in the Multi-Robot Systems Lab with James McLurkin, Aaron investigated control of distributed systems and nanorobotics with experts in the fields. His online game swarmcontrol.net seeks to understand the best ways to control a swarm of robots by a human--through a community of game-developed experts. Aaron earned his PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Tim Bretl.

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Calibrate Camera with one Photo (Linear Method)
Have you ever wondered how a photographer got a shot? Performs camera calibration from labelled points in 3D space and pixel coo...

3 months ago | 8 downloads |

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calculate Fermat Point
Returns the first Fermat point of a triangle with vertices (A,B,C).

10 months ago | 2 downloads |

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shortest distance between two circles in 3D
Returns the shortest distance between two circles in 3D, the pair(s) of closest points, and if the circles are equidistant.

12 months ago | 2 downloads |

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Bang-bang acceleration control of angular position
Compares a bang-bang 1 dimensional controller with a controller based on the SmootherStep function.

12 months ago | 2 downloads |

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Multilateration Algebraic GPS Equations (S. Bancroft method)
Calculates the position of a receiver given the time delay of arrival to at least 4 satellites in 3D (or at least 3 satellites i...

1 year ago | 5 downloads |

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Robot Arm Potential Field Navigation
A path planner for n-link planar robot arm moving among polygonal obstacles (or point obstacles). Set parameter to see prebuilt...

2 years ago | 5 downloads |

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polyEnumDraw
Generate & draw all fixed polyominoes of size n tiles. A polyomino is a plane geometric figure formed by joining equal squares e...

4 years ago | 3 downloads |

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polyEnum
Enumerate all the fixed polyominoes of size n tiles. A polyomino is a plane geometric figure formed by joining equal squares edg...

4 years ago | 3 downloads |

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Parallel Self-Assembly of Polyominoes under Uniform Control Inputs
generates 'polyomino factories' using parallel self-assembly on particle swarms using uniform force

7 years ago | 1 download |

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ClosestFrontier: Particle Mapping using global inputs
This code moves particles in a 2D map using global commands to discover all boundaries/frontiers.

7 years ago | 2 downloads |

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Aggregation of particles in 2D grid using global control
This code solves the aggregation problem using global inputs given N particles in a 2D environment.

7 years ago | 1 download |

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Mosquito Drone Coverage & Elimination
Simulates using a robot to electrically kill mosquitos

7 years ago | 1 download |

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Seismic Survey Scheduler
Simulates a seismic survey over a rectangular grid of area x by y meters

7 years ago | 1 download |

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Kilobot Swarm Control using Matlab + Arduino
Controls swarm of kilobots to push object through maze. Swarm attracted to brightest light

7 years ago | 3 downloads |

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Arranging a robot swarm with global inputs and wall friction [discrete]
All robots get same input, but uses wall-friction to steer robots to a desired configuration.

8 years ago | 1 download |

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MDP robot grid-world example
Applies value iteration to learn a policy for a robot in a grid world.

8 years ago | 2 downloads |

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MCLin1Dsimple
Tutorial code on particle filtering for 1D

9 years ago | 1 download |

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Expectation Maximization On Old Faithful
Applies expectation maximization to fit a mixture of binomial distributions to a data set

9 years ago | 1 download |

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jellyBlocks()
Logic game were all colored blocks are controlled at once -- join all blocks of same color to win!

9 years ago | 1 download |

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SimpleRobotWithBayesRule()
Simulates a simple robot using Bayes Filter to localize itself on a map

9 years ago | 3 downloads |

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lloydsAlgorithm(Px,Py, crs, numIterations, showPlot)
Starts with a point set, repeatedly moves each point to centroid of Voronoi cell.

9 years ago | 8 downloads |

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Particle Computation: Permute an array of particles with 4 global moves
Given 2 rectangular permutations of n^2 particles, arranges obstacles to permute in 4 moves

10 years ago | 2 downloads |

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Control n MRI-powered actuators
Simulates control law to steer multiple MRI-powered actuators

10 years ago | 1 download |

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Generate Non-Parallel Axes
Generate n 'well-spaced' axes -- uniform sampling of 3D rotation axes

10 years ago | 2 downloads |

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Drive Magnetic Micro-Robots Through a 2D Vascular Network
Using the mouse or keyboard, drive n robots through a 2D vascular structure to goal positions

10 years ago | 2 downloads |

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Simulate Control of Magnetized Tetrahymena Pyriformis Cells
With uniform magnetic field uses control-Lypunov function to steer all cells to orbit goal positions

10 years ago | 1 download |

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Massive Uniform Manipulation: Control Large Populations of Simple Robots with a Common Input Signal
rearranges n robots controlled to move in unison {up, down, left, right} using 1 obstacle

10 years ago | 1 download |

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Approximate Steering of a Unicycle Under Bounded Model Perturbation Using Ensemble Control
Steers unicycle despite model perturb. scaling speed & turning rate by unknown, bounded constant.

11 years ago | 1 download |

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Feedback Control of Many Differential-Drive Robots with Uniform Control Inputs
GAS feedback control for many differential-drive robots when each robot receives same control inputs

11 years ago | 2 downloads |

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Range and Bearing Control of an Ensemble of Robots
Game for steering many robots to fire suction-cup darts at a target.(note: still under development.)

11 years ago | 1 download |