Multi-Robot Teams
Teams of robots are increasingly deployed in real world applications.
One of the key challenges in building such teams is to automate the
control of teamwork, such that the designer can concentrate her
efforts on the taskwork to be done. This tutorial will present
methodologies for automating teamwork in teams of behavior-based
robots. An instantiated framework and associated algorithms,
incorporating many of these methodologies will be presented.
Monitoring Teammates
A key challenge in teamwork is to maintain awareness of what others
are doing within the context of the team. This is important to
maintain agreement among team-members, to allow an operator to monitor
the team's progress, and to detect failures. This tutorial will focus
on specific challenge areas and present key results and techniques.
Biography
Dr. Kaminka is a senior lecturer at the computer science department,
Bar Ilan University, and adjunct assistant professor at the computer
science department, Carnegie Mellon University. At Bar Ilan
University, he heads the MAVERICK research group, which carries out
research in robot teamwork, multi-agent systems, and modeling others
from observations. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Kaminka's research
activities include building systems and algorithms for behavior
recognition, diagnosis of distributed systems, autonomous and
operator-controlled multi-robot teams, and agents for computer games.
