Designing Interaction-Aware Multi-Robot Systems
Date and time: 7 November 2024, 13:00-14:00 CET
Speaker: Malintha Fernando, KTH
Title: Designing Interaction-Aware Multi-Robot Systems
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus OR Zoom
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/
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Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69560887455
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Abstract: We are currently living through an automation revolution. As we witness the continuous advancements of humanoids, drones with various capabilities, self-driving cars and trucks, the research focus naturally shifts toward learning how to deploy them effectively in the real-world, by accounting for more than one’s interests and capabilities. For example, the successful automation of next generation transportation systems like urban air mobility (UAM), autonomous taxi systems, stretches beyond automating individual robots, as in reality such systems lie at the center of numerous interactions of multiple actors, where one’s action bear different costs to the others.
How can we design multi-robot systems that can handle these externalities effectively?
Aimed at answering this question, this presentation focuses on designing multi-robot policies that 1) handle heterogeneous interactions with other entities, and 2) incorporate the self-interests of the others for cooperative decision making. Finally, we focus on designing multi-robot systems whose objectives stretch beyond the traditional unilateral approaches.
Bio: Malintha Fernando is a digital futures postdoctoral fellow at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and he obtained his Ph.D in 2023 from Indiana University, Bloomington (USA). Malintha’s research focus on designing cooperative control policies for multi-robot systems that operate under limited communication constraints. Prior to joining KTH, Malintha worked as a full-time visiting lecturer in Machine Learning at Indiana University.