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SUMMARY:The Motion and Teaming Lab's Work On Multi-Robot Algorithms for Co
 mmunication Challenging Scenarios - Michael Otte- Department of Aerospace 
 Engineering at the University of Maryland College Park
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CONTACT:Sally Matthews
DESCRIPTION:This talk will focus on our lab's work to understand how multi
 ple robots can coordinate\, cooperate\, and collaborate when communication
  between robots is unreliable and/or unavailable. We will cover problems a
 nd results related to task allocation\, path and motion planning algorithm
 s\, swarm behavior design\, and distributed learning across swarms of robo
 ts. Applications include solving problems in which communication between r
 obots is challenging\, very challenging\, and/or nonexistent.  A recent re
 sult that we are excited to talk about is something we call the "path-base
 d sensor\," a Shannon information theoretic approach to searching for an e
 vent causing phenomenon when observations are limited to the granularity o
 f (entire) robot paths\; for example\, searching for lethal robot-destroyi
 ng hazards in a communication denied environment.\n\nBio:\nMichael Otte is
  an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the 
 University of Maryland College Park (MD) and director of the Motion and Te
 aming Lab. He also holds affiliations with the UMD Department of Computer 
 Science\, the Maryland Robotics Center (MRC)\, the MATRIX Lab\, and the Ar
 tificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM). He is
  a Senior member of IEEE and AIAA\, Associate Editor of the International 
 Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)\, and served as a Co-Chair of the Inte
 rnational Workshop on Robot Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR'22) 
 and Program Chair of the International Conference on Distributed Autonomou
 s Robotic Systems (DARS'24). Dr. Otte was previously a National Science Fo
 undation Postdoctoral Associate in the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL
 )\, a visiting Scholar at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)\, 
 and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 (MIT). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boul
 der (CU) in Computer Science.\n\n
LOCATION:Department of Computer Science and technology\, FW11
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