Cooperative Robotics

Distributed architectures have distinct advantages over monolithic architectures, including robustness to single agent failure, collaboration, and parallelization on tasking. Traditionally, these architectures have come with their own set of drawbacks as well, most importantly a dramatically increased computational complexity. We’re exploring ways to enable swarms of robots to cooperate in a decentralized way, with an emphasis on real-time adaptation to out-of-distribution changes to their environments or scenarios.