Project Info

Communication Decisions in Robot Swarms

Neil Dantam | ndantam@mines.edu
Matthew Schack | mschack@mymail.mines.edu (graduate mentor)

Communication is critical to successful cooperation in robot swarms. Robots must decide, when, what, and with whom they will communicate. Communication decisions interact with the swarm’s ability to achieve its overall task. However, the many combinations of possible decisions present a challenge for computational efficiency. This project will explore techniques to efficiently make communication decisions in robot swarms. Possible approaches include optimization, search, and constraint-satisfaction.

For more information
A data collection protocol for real-time sensor applications. (http://pecs.mines.edu/docs/pmc09.pdf)

NS-3 Network Simulator. (https://www.nsnam.org/)

The Task-Motion Kit (http://www.neil.dantam.name/papers/dantam2018tmkit.pdf).

NLopt Nonlinear Optimization Library (https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt).