Event
Lockheed Martin Robotics Seminar: Dylan Shell, "Recent algorithms in multi-robot task allocation"
Friday, April 11, 2014
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
1146 AV Williams Bldg
Salil Goyal
301 405 1009
salilg07@umd.edu
http://http://robotics.umd.edu/events/robotics_seminars.php
Lockheed Martin Robotics Seminar Series
Recent algorithms for the assignment problem in multi-robot task allocation
Dr. Dylan A. Shell
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
Host
Yiannis Aloimonos
Abstract
In this talk I will describe recent research toward the goal of engineering multi-robot systems to form networks of efficient, cooperative, task able agents. I shall consider variations of the multi-robot task allocation (assignment) problem, wherein one aims at finding the best matching between a set of robots and a set of tasks so that the team’s performance will be optimized. This assignment problem is one of the most popular formulations for optimizing the group synergy. I'll describe new algorithms and results that show improvements in performance, scalability, and robustness for general-purpose coordinated mobile robot systems.
Biography
Dylan Shell is an assistant professor computer science and engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He received his BSc degree in computational & applied mathematics and computer science from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. His research aims to synthesize and analyze complex, intelligent behavior in distributed systems that exploit their physical embedding to interact with the physical world.
He has published papers on multi-robot task allocation, robotics for emergency scenarios, biologically inspired multiple robot systems, multi-robot routing, estimation of group-level swarm properties, statistical mechanics for robot swarms, minimalist manipulation, wireless communication models for robot systems, interpolation for adaptive robotic sampling, rigid-body simulation and contact models, human-robot interaction, and robotic theatre.
