Robotics

How do robots collaborate to achieve consensus?

Making group decisions is no easy task, especially when the decision makers are a swarm of robots. To increase swarm autonomy in collective perception, a research team at the IRIDIA artificial intelligence research laboratory ...

Energy & Green Tech

Power supply: Understanding unstable grids

A sustainable energy supply requires the expansion of power grids. However, new transmission lines can also lead to grids becoming more unstable rather than more stable, as would be expected. This phenomenon is referred to ...

Energy & Green Tech

Field trials validate wind turbine wake steering impact at scale

If every turn of the wheel is a revolution, then every sweep of a wind turbine blade is an opportunity. That's how researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) view the potential for wind plant operators ...