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This work focuses on developing collaborative exploration strategies that allow robots and humans to learn and co-adapt to exploit synergies within human-robot teams. Many existing collaborative strategies allocate tasks by leveraging each member’s strengths. By allowing robots to learn from their human teammates, humans can transfer some of their tasks to their robotic teammates enabling … Read more
Being able to estimate and predict information about dynamic processes deepens our understanding of biological, chemical, and physical phenomena in the environment. Often, these dynamic processes exhibit complex, spatio-temporal behaviors. Mobile robots are particularly well-suited to monitor these processes because of their abilities to carry sensors and adapt their sensing locations. Robots can be used … Read more
Optimal Paths in Flows Autonomous marine vehicles (AMVs) are typically deployed for long periods of time in the ocean to monitor different physical, chemical, and biological processes. Given their limited energy budgets, it makes sense to consider motion plans that leverage the dynamics of the surrounding flow field so as to minimize energy usage for … Read more
This work leverages the complimentary mobility and sensing capabilities of a network of heterogeneous robots that operate in remote oceanic environments, to efficiently collect information and eff ectively manage the volume of data collected. We consider the deployment of minimally actuated active drifters or similarly power-constrained mobile sensors. The active drifters periodically offload their sensory information … Read more