Distributed Robotics

Catalog description

This course covers challenges and approaches for planning, coordinating, and controlling multi-robot systems. Main topics of the course include: consensus, distributed search, multi-agent planning, coverage, swarming and flocking, with applications for distributed control in networked sensors/actuators in soft robots or in multirobot systems common in aerial, underwater, and autonomous driving applications. Students will learn to formally model and analyze multi-robot systems through paper readings on state-of-the-art techniques and an independent final project.