New
generations of sensor rich, massively distributed,
embedded systems are being developed that have the
potential for profound social, environmental, and
economic change. These systems include networked
automobiles that never fail, cooperating vehicle teams
that perform search and rescue, and humanoid robots that
will assist astronauts in space, or the elderly back on
earth. The
objective of the MERS group is to revolutionize the way
in which we create and control these new artifacts.
Research
in the MERS group concentrates on model-based
autonomy -- the creation of long-lived autonomous
systems that are able to explore, command, diagnose and
repair them selves using fast, commonsense reasoning.
Current research focuses on the following areas, as
listed under Projects:
Group
Lead :
Professor
Brian C. Williams
Affiliations
:
The Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems group at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is affiliated
with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Autonomous Systems Laboratory
(ASL) of the Department of Aeronautics and
Astronautics.
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