This $200,000 National Science Foundation project grant, funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research at Boston University from March 2023 to February 2028 on decentralized and online planning for emergent cooperation in multi-robot teams. The grantee will develop new distributed and decentralized control algorithms through research on reputation, reciprocity, and co-existence. This aims to enable robot teams to adapt cooperation based on task, surroundings, and decisions of other robots. The grantee will analyze algorithm performance using cooperative game theory and stability theory, with the goal of quantifying gains from robot team cooperation. Ultimately, this research seeks to enable teams of robots to cooperatively operate with unknown robots in cluttered environments, with potential applications in delivery and resource-foraging robots.
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