We are happy with our progression, currently tackling the hardest problem we encountered so far - creating an accurate map of the environment from orthometric drone images
We are very happy with the progress we are making, and we are moving steadily towards the final output for round 1.
progress is being made and we are happy for the work done and future plans for the project.
completed milestone 1. 90% to milestone 2 completion.
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Swarm Robotics is an emerging field of adapting the phenomenon of natural swarms to robotics. It is a study of robots that are aimed to mimic natural swarms, like ants and birds, to form a system that is scalable, flexible, and robust. These robots show self-organization, autonomy, cooperation, and coordination amongst themselves. Benefits of swarms over traditional robotics include fault tolerance, scalability, operational efficiency, and ability to operate in dangerous or hazardous environments.
We have taken inspiration from popular RTS (real-time strategy) games, such as StarCraft and Age of Empires, which have successfully used swarm intelligence and multi-agent AI systems in the past 20+ years.
ZRush aims to extend the same mechanics and user experience to real-world practical applications by designing a control system for swarms of robots that combines autonomous swarm behaviour with human piloting and decision-making. The control system focusses on precision, reliability, and flexibility and aims at overcoming the issues that currently limit the use of robot swarms in real-life scenarios.
ZRush
Swarm robotics is a relatively young field of research and has not yet been widely adopted in industry. As of today, the peculiar properties of swarms make them somewhat unreliable in real-life applications:
Our solution aims to build an easy to use and accurate control system that allows human operators to manoeuvre large swarms of robots across many environments – We are aiming to minimise reliance on distributed swarm behaviour, focussing instead on human-machine interaction and decision-making.
The ZRush control system will feature an AI system that takes readings from the sensors mounted on the robots to reconstruct a 3D map of the swarm's surroundings and display the map on the interface. This allows human operators to accurately control the swarm through a series of commands, customised to the swarm's abilities.
ZRush will also feature behavioural learning algorithms that will improve swarm behaviour in time by learning from the humans controlling the robots.
In this funding round, we will build and host on the SNET AI platform a Multi-variable 3D AI mapper.
The Multi-variable 3D AI mapper is not limited to use within robot swarms, but can be used in any application where a full map of the environment must be reconstructed using multiple sensors.
The Multi-variable 3D AI mapper is the core of the ZRush control system. All the communication from the control system to the swarms, and the map reconstruction, will be done through the AI systems hosted on the SNET AI platform.
Real-time mapping will require ZRush to capture and process inputs from a very high number of sensors (at least equal to the number of robots in the swarm), therefore expected API call volume would run in the order of millions.
In future stages of the project, we will be looking to build swarm intelligence behavioural learning algorithms and host them on the SNET AI platform.
Alignment with SNET values
The distinctive properties of robot swarms make them very suitable for a series of use-cases where traditional robotics would be highly inefficient. Many of these use-cases have a very positive humanitarian and environmental impact.
Our closest competitors are companies that provide control systems for robots and drones. Examples of such companies are SenseFly and DroneInch, as well as start-ups such as UAVIA and SkyWard.
Although some of these control systems can support multiple bots/drones, none are built to work on a full-scale robot swarm, and don’t incorporate swarm AI. In addition, these systems are built exclusively for drones and aerial robots, whereas ZRush will provide control systems for aquatic and terrestrial swarms, as well as aerial.
We aim to be the first company that provides a control system designed specifically for full-scale robot swarms.
We have a B2B business model that sees us offering a full package of ZRush control system, robot swarms (provided by Partners), and experienced operators as a service.
Partnerships with robotics companies would give us access to a variety of custom-built robot swarms in order to cover a wide range of applications.
ZRush aims to build an easy to use, intuitive control system that allows human operators to control large swarms of robots accurately and reliably.
The ZRush control system uses a multi-variable 3D AI mapper to render the environment around the swarm into a 3D map that is displayed on the interface.
The AI mapper will include a number of AI models that each work on a different set of sensors. This will allow ZRush to be compatible with any type of swarm and with any type of sensors mounted on the robots.
The mapper will:
Through ZRush, human operators will be able to control the full swarm, subsets of the swarm, or single robots. Swarm behaviour algorithms allow multiple robots to be controlled as a single entity.
Key Features:
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$5,000 USD
Litepaper, website design, logo, brand identity
$7,500 USD
System architecture, literature review, and data aquisition
Website creation, UI design for interface
Model design and training
Testing and refinements
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