Multirobotics Course Research Presentations

Overview

The idea for this portion of the course is for each person to conduct independent literature research in multi robot systems. We'll use the following process:

• We will survey all members of the class to discover their backgrounds and interests.
• The instructor will assign individual students to teams.
• Teams will bid for topics, and topics will be assigned.
• Each team will give two presentations.

Topics

• Ant navigation
• Ant task assignment
• Honeybee communication
• Flocking, herding, swarming
• Predator / prey
• Collective sorting and clustering
• Collective construction
• Robot formation control
• Coordinated control for sensing
• Optimal task allocation
• Task allocation and coordination in noisy environments
• High performance team path planning (RRTs)
• Self assembly in modular robotics
• Multirobot team learning
• Robot soccer
• Opponent modeling
• Behavior-based multi robot systems
• Planning-based multi robot systems
• Communication in multi robot systems
• Stigmergy
• Other topic that you suggest

Where to Find Papers

Here are lists of papers developed by other researchers that are a good source of material for your presentations:

• A list developed by Radhika Nagpal at Harvard: [[1]]
• A list developed by Maja Mataric at USC: [[2]]
• A list developed by Dylan Shell at Texas A&M: [[3]]