PRESENTATION TOPICS

How this works: For each topic we will select a "primary" paper. This is the paper the class must read for that day. Presentors are responsible for researching and pesenting their topic in depth, including papers in addition to the primariy paper.

If you are interested in a topic that is not listed here, you may suggest your own.

Note * indicates the topic is taken.

1. Behavioral Heterogeneity
   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.
   * John Beckham
   

2. Taxonomies of MultiRobot Systems
   Book, Chapter 1
   Book, Chapter 3
   * Steve Marlowe
   

3. Collaborative Observation and Localization
   Book, Chapter 6
   Papers by Stroupe & Balch
   RoboCup papers
   * Bart Presnell
   Han Xu (2)
   Bart Presnell (2)
   

4. Polymorphic Robots
   Book, Chapter 5
   Papers by Daniela Rus
   * Logan Hauenstein

5. Mechanically Heterogeneous Teams
   Book, Chapter 9
   Book, Chapter 10
   *Ananth Ranganathan
   

6. MultiRobot Cooperation, Collaboration and Coordination
   Book, Chapter 13
   Emery, Sikorski & Balch, ICRA-2002 Paper
   * Han Xu
   Steve Marlowe (~)
   Barath Petit (2)
   Patrick Ulam (2)
   

7. 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-Bandwidth Communication
   

   * Xiang Song 22 Oct
   Steve Marlowe (~)
   Adam Feldman (~)
   Barath Petit 24 Oct
   Patrick Ulam (2)
   

8. MultiRobot Reinforcement Learning
   Book, Chapter 2
   Mataric, Reinforcement Learning in the Multi-Robot Domain
   Balch, PhD Thesis Chapters 6 & 7 (sections on results in learning)
   Yanco/Stein An adaptive communication protocol for cooperating mobile robots
   * Phillip Jones
   

9. Learning for Mechanically Diverse Robot Systems
   Book, Chapter 7
   * Matt Powers 3 Oct
   

10. Multiagent Planning
    Brumitt, et al Dynamic Mission Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots
    Jensen, et al, OBDD-based Universal Planning: Specifying and Solving Planning Problems for Synchronized Agents in Non-Deterministic Domains
    * Amin Atrash 17 Oct
    

11. Biological Inspiration - Bees
    von Frisch, The dance language and orientation of bees
    Seeley's books.
    * Heather Mahaney 26 Sep

12. Biological Inspiration - Ants
    Wilson, Chemical communication in ants
    Gordon's papers
    Phillip Jones (~)
    * Adam Feldman 1 Oct
    

13. Behavior Recognition/Opponent Modeling
    Han/Veloso Opponent Modeling
    Huber/Durfee An initial assessment of plan-recognition-based coordination for multiagent teams, ICMAS-96
    Other papers TBD.
    * Jon Beckham (1)
    Bryan Kennedy (1)
    Keith O'Hara (2) 10 Oct
    

14. Behavior-based Multirobot Architectures
    Parker, Designing control laws for cooperative agent teams
    Mataric, Issues and Approaches in the Design of Collective Autonomous Agents
    Arkin, Cooperation without communication
    Ananth Ranganathan (~)
    Patrick Ulam 8 October
    Keith O'Hara (1)