SYLLABUS

CS 8803L: AUTONOMOUS MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS

You are responsible for the changes to this schedule posted to the email list.

Pick a topic.

Date Presenter Topic/Papers Notes
Tuesday
20 Aug
Tucker Balch
Introduction to Multirobot Systems
slides
Thursday
22 Aug
Tucker Balch
Introduction to Multirobot Systems
slides
Tuesday
27 Aug
Tucker Balch
Motor schema-based control
Arkin/Balch, AuRA: Principles and Practice in Review
slides
Project 1 distributed
Thursday
29 Aug
Tucker Balch
MultiRobot Motor Schemas &
Planning approaches to navigation
slides 1
slides 2
Final list of topics on web
Tuesday
3 Sep
Tucker Balch
More Planning &
Subsumption
Brooks, Elephants don't play chess
A* pseudo-code
slides
Topic due
Project 1 due at beginning of class
Project 2 distributed
Thursday
5 Sep
Tucker Balch
TeamBots Tutorial
slides
Tuesday
10 Sep
Tucker Balch Reinforcement learning 1
Kaelbling, Littman, Moore, Reinforcement Learning: A Survey
Thursday
12 Sep
Tucker Balch
Reinforcement learning 2
Tuesday
17 Sep
Tucker Balch
Review for Mid-Term
Bonus Topic
Project 2 due at beginning of class
Project 3 distributed
Sony Aibo presentation delayed.
Thursday
19 Sep
Frank Dellaert
Intro To Bayesian Techniques
Balch on travel
Tuesday
24 Sep
Mid-Term Exam
Mid-Term Exam
Mid-Term Exam
Thursday
26 Sep
Heather Mahaney
Biological Inspiration - Bees
slides
Mid-terms returned & reviewed. Last class before drop day
Tuesday
1 Oct
Adam Feldman
Biological Inspiration - Ants
What is the Function of Encounter Patters in Ant Colonies?
by Deborah Gordon

slides

How do insects user path integration for their navigation?
Path integration in desert ants
Thursday
3 Oct
Matt Powers
Learning for Mechanically Diverse Robot Systems
Reading: Book Chapter 7
slides
Tuesday
8 October
BORG Open House
3rd Floor CRB
Thursday
10 Oct
Patrick Ulam
Keith O'Hara
Behavior-based Multirobot Architectures
slides 1
Behavior Recognition/Opponent Modeling
slides 2
Tuesday
15 Oct
GT Holiday
No class
Thursday
17 Oct
Amin Atrash
Multiagent Planning
slides
Tuesday
22 Oct
Xiang Song
  • Communication
    Balch/Arkin, Communication in reactive multiagent robotic systems
    Book, Chapter 8
    Mataric, Using Communication to Reduce Locality in Distributed Multi-Agent Learning
    Stone/Veloso Communication in Domains with Unreliable, Single-Channel, Low-Band width Communication
  • Communication 1
    slides 1
    slides 2
    Thursday
    24 Oct
    Barath Petit
    Communication 2
    slides
    Tuesday
    29 Oct
    Prof. Carl Anderson, ISYE
    Ants' inspiration
    Balch on travel
    Thursday
    31 Oct
    Marc Berhault
    Paper by Dias and Stentz
    Auction-based task negotiation for multi-robot systems
    Balch on travel
    Tuesday
    5 Nov
    Ananth Ranganathan
    Book, chapters 9 and 10.
    Mechanically Heterogeneous Teams
    slides 1
    slides 2
    Thursday
    7 Nov
    Ronald C. Arkin
    Two perspectives on human-robot interaction
    http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ai/robot-lab/online-publications/usability.pdf
    http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ai/robot-lab/online-publications/sony-iros.pdf
    Balch on travel
    Tuesday
    12 Nov
    Steve Marlowe
    Book, chapters 1 and 3
    Taxonomies of MultiRobot Systems
    slides
    Thursday
    14 Nov
    Tucker Balch
    Observing and Modelling Social Insect Behavior
    no slides
    Tuesday
    19 Nov
    Han Xu
    Emery, Sikorski & Balch, ICRA-2002 Paper
    Book, Chapter 13
    MultiRobot Cooperation, Collaboration and Coordination
    slides
    Thursday
    21 Nov
    Jon Beckham
    Book, Chapter 4
    Book, Chapter 11
    Fontan/Mataric, A Study of Territoriality: The Role of Critical Mass in Adaptive Task Division
    Zinkevich & Balch, ICML paper on symmetry.
    Behavioral Heterogeneity
    slides
    Tuesday
    26 Nov
    Bart Presnell
    Book, Chapter 6
    Distributed Sensor Fusion for Object Position Estimation by Multi-Robot Systems, Stroupe, A., Martin, M. and Balch, T., IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-2001), Seoul, 2001.
    Collaborative Observation and Localization

    slides
    Soccer Championship
    Thursday
    28 Nov
    Thanksgiving
    Thanksgiving
    No Class
    Tuesday
    3 Dec
    Logan Hauenstein
    Book, Chapter 5
    Papers by Daniela Rus
    Polymorphic Robots
    slides
    Thursday
    5 Dec
    Phillip Jones
    Book, Chapter 2
    Mataric, Reinforcement Learning in th e Multi-Robot Domain
    Balch, PhD Thesis Chapters 6 & 7 (sections on results in learning)
    MultiRobot Reinforcement Learning
    slides
    Last day of class
    Friday
    6 Dec
    Final Projects Due
    Final Projects Due
    Final Projects Due
    Tuesday
    10 Dec
    Final Exam
    Final Exam
    11:30-2:30 in IC 219