Hardware Podcasts

Episode Twenty-Three: Mickey Li

Robot Talk · 28 Oct 2022 · 22m · Episode 23

What this episode covers

Mickey Li, a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, discusses his research on optimal multi-UAV path planning for building inspection, focusing on fault tolerance and reliability. He explains how his work models probabilistic robot failures to create redundant, overlapping flight paths that ensure mission completion even if individual drones fail. Li also details the development of Staling, an open-source infrastructure he built with Rob Clark to simplify multi-UAV deployment at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory by using Docker containerization. The conversation covers applications in infrastructure inspection, such as power plants and bridges, and the challenges of scaling decentralized coordination.

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early-stage companies

Topics

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Companies
University of Bristol, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, EPSRC UK-RAS Network
Products
Staling
Tools
ROS, Docker

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