The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to the University of Alabama Office for Sponsored Programs Division. The 2-year project, starting January 1, 2024, aims to develop a synergistic robotic coordination framework that enables formal representation, learning, and planning for cooperative mobile manipulation in challenging environments. The project will advance multi-robot cooperation capabilities, including techniques like anchoring, tugging, tilting, and spinning, to accomplish physically demanding missions that exceed the abilities of individual robots. This work will be conducted in collaboration with researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The project has the potential to transform the understanding of multi-robot coordination by introducing a perspective of formal strategy representation and knowledge-driven learning.
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