Exploring the Unknown Through Successive Generations of Low Power and Low Resource Versatile Agents
Martin Andraud1,2,a, Gonenc Berkol1,b, Jaro De Roose2,f, Santosh Gannavarapu2,g, Haoming Xin1, Eugenio Cantatore1,c, Pieter J.A. Harpe1,d, Marian Verhelst2,h and Peter G.M. Baltus1,e
1TU Eindhoven, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, MSM group, The Netherlands.
aM.Andraud@tue.nl
bG.Berkol@tue.nl
cE.Cantatore@tue.nl
dP.J.A.Harpe@tue.nl
eP.G.M.Baltus@tue.nl
2KU Leuven, Dept. of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), MICAS group, Belgium.
fjare.deroose@kuleuven.be
gsantosh.gannavaparu@kuleuven.be
hmarian.verhelst@kuleuven.be
ABSTRACT
The Phoenix project aims to develop a new approach to explore unknown environments, based on multiple measurement campaigns carried out by extremely tiny devices, called agents, that gather data through multiple sensors. These low power and low resource agents are configured specifically for each measurement campaign to achieve the exploration goal in the smallest number of iterations. Thus, the main design challenge is to build agents as much reconfigurable as possible. This paper introduces the Phoenix project in more details, and presents first developments in the agent design.
