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| Date | Presenter | Topic/Papers | Notes | |
| Thursday 14 September | Tucker Balch | Introduction to Multirobot Systems Background - Behavior-based robotic systems Brooks, Elephants don't play chess | ||
| Tuesday 19 September | Manuela Veloso | Robot Soccer | ||
| Thursday 21 September | Tucker Balch | Background - Behavior-based robotic systems Arkin/Balch, AuRA: Principles and Practice in Review | Assignment 1 due | |
| Tuesday 26 September | Tucker Balch | Background - Reinforcement learning Kaelbling, et al, Reinforcement learning: A survey | ||
| Thursday 28 September | Howie Choset | Multirobot Coverage Howie Choset and Philippe Pignon Coverage Path Planning: The Boustrophedon Decomposition -- TeamBots Help Session | ||
| Tuesday 3 October | Tucker Balch | Diversity in Multirobot Systems Balch, Hierarchic Social Entropy | ||
| Thursday 5 October | Katia Sycara | Multiagent Software Systems Sycara, et al, Distributed Intelligent Agents | ||
| Tuesday 10 October | Daniel Wilson | Biological Inspiration: Ant Biology Nonacs and Soriano, Patch Sampling Behaviour and Future Foraging Expectations in Argentine Ants | Project 1 due: homogeneous simulated soccer team | |
| Thursday 12 October | Bernadine Dias | Multiagent Architectures M.B. Dias and A. Stentz A Free Market Architecture for Distributed Control of a Multirobot System | ||
| Tuesday 17 October | Vince Cicirello | Biological Inspiration: Ant Algorithms R. Vaughan, et al. Whistling in the Dark: Cooperative Trail Following in Uncertain Localization Space. | project proposal due | |
| Thursday 19 October | Rosemary Emery | Cooperative Localization Fox, et al A Probabilistic Approach to Collaborative Multi-Robot Localization | ||
| Tuesday 24 October | Reid Simmons | Multirobot Construction Hershberger, et al,Distributed Visual Servoing with a Roving Eye | Project 2 due: heterogeneous simulated soccer team | |
| Thursday 26 October | Paul Carpenter | Communication, Learning Yanco/Stein An adaptive communication protocol for cooperating mobile robots | ||
| Tuesday 31 October | Rune Jensen | Multiagent Planning Jensen, et al, OBDD-based universal planning for multiple synchronized agents in non-deterministic domains
| drop day | |
| Thursday 2 November | Bob Grabowski | Millibots | mid-term exam distributed | |
| Tuesday 7 November | Scarvelis | Multirobot Path Planning | mid-term exam collected | |
| Thursday 9 November | Sungwoo Park |
Learning Multirobot Systems Mataric, Reinforcement Learning in the Multi-robot Domain | ||
| Tuesday 14 November | Siddhartha Srinivasa | Behavior Recognition Han/Veloso Opponent Modeling | Project 3 due: communicating simulated soccer team | |
| Thursday 16 November | Andreas Schwarzhans | Biological Inspiration: Bees 1994 Scientific American article | Final Project Progress Report Due | |
| Tuesday 21 November | Martin Zinkevich | Communication - Reliability/Security Stone/Veloso Communication in Domains with Unreliable, Single-Channel, Low-Bandwidth Communication | ||
| Thursday 23 November | Pilgrim | thanksgiving | ||
| Tuesday 28 November | Jamie Schulte |
Communication - Utility Balch & Arkin, Communication in reactive multiagent robotic systems Mataric, Using Communication to Reduce Locality in Distributed Multi-Agent Learning | ||
| Thursday 30 November | Dong Jia Maayan Roth | Multirobot Architectures - Behavior-based Parker, Designing control laws for cooperative agent teams Mataric, Issues and Approaches in the Design of Collective Autonomous Agents Arkin, Cooperation without communication | ||
| Tuesday 5 December | DeWitt Latimer |
Multirobot Architectures - Planning/symbolic | ||
| Thursday 7 December | Chris Hardouin Yishan Wong | Polymorphic robots Castano, Shen and Will, CONRO: Towards Deployable Robots with Inter-robot Metamorphic Capabilities | Final distributed | |
| Tuesday 12 December | Gal Kaminka | Teamwork and teamwork failure detection | Final collected | |
| Monday 18 December | Project Reports Due | Final Project Reports Due | ||
| Monday-Friday 18-20 December | Project Demos | Final Project Demos |