Teams of robots working on a shared task. The main questions are what they need to share (positions, maps, plans, beliefs) and what happens when sharing fails: dropped links, delays, or a robot that is wrong or lying.
Topics
- Coordination. Rendezvous, formation control, coverage, task allocation and distributed estimation all use some form of consensus.
- Mixed teams. UAVs and UGVs have different sensors and move at different speeds. See semantic coordination.
- Trust. Which robot should an operator believe when two disagree? See human-robot trust.
- Settings. Sea, air and land in Singapore.
Questions
- Which cyber-physical security methods (independent monitors, invariants, attack detection) work for a team that moves?
- What is a simple, useful definition of “this robot is behaving oddly”?