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In this thesis a swarm intelligent approach for controlling and coordinating a multi- agent system is studied. Considering an example where bodyguard agents have to protect one or more VIP agents, it is shown that the swarm intelligent approach can be a flexible and robust way to control a multi-agent system.
Robotic grasping has been a prevailing problem ever since humans began creating robots to execute human-like tasks. The problems are usually due to the involvement of moving parts and sensors. Inaccuracy in sensor data usually leads
to unexpected results. Researchers have used a variety of sensors for improving manipulation tasks in robots.
This thesis focuses specifically on grasping unknown objects using mobile service robots. An approach using convolutional neural networks to generate grasp points
in a scene using RGBD sensor data is proposed. Two neural networks that perform grasp detection in a top down scenario are evaluated, enhanced and compared in
a more general scenario. Experiments are performed in a simulated environmentas well as the real world.
The results are used to understand how difference in
sensor data can affect grasping and enhancements are made to overcome these effects and to optimize the solution.
This thesis is an improvement on the works of Douglas Morrison, Peter Corke and Jürgen Leitner in their work Closing the Loop for Robotic Grasping: A Real-time,
Generative Grasp Synthesis Approach and Fu-Jen Chu, Ruinian Xu and Patricio A. Vela in their work Real-world Multi-object, Multi-grasp Detection.