SYSE6327 - Multi-Agent Robotic Systems

SYSE 6327 Multi-Agent Robotic Systems (3 semester credit hours) This course will provide a detailed overview of the distributed decision architecture of the cooperative and distributed control for multi-robot and multi-agent systems. The goal is to understand, and design distributed controllers and strategies that rely on local interactions between network agents (robots) to achieve global objectives. We will demonstrate and analyze the control-theoretic properties of multi-robot systems and the influence of the underlying network topology on the dynamical behavior of these networked systems. These distributed control strategies and analysis will then be applied to solving various problems, including formation control, coverage control, connectivity and topology control, resilient and fault-tolerant control, and self-organization in multi-robot systems. Prerequisite: SYSM 6307 or EECS 6331 or MECH 6300. (3-0) Y