Towards Safe and Robust Behavior Mixing for Multi-Robot Systems
GHC 8102Abstract: Multi-robot systems have been widely studied for extending its capability of accomplishing complex tasks through cooperative behaviors. In large-scale multi-robot behavior mixing, the heterogeneous robotic team executes simultaneously multiple behaviors or sequences of behaviors with various task-prescribed controllers in real time to increase efficiency in parallel tasks. Key to the success of behavior mixing [...]
Design and Evaluation of Robust Control Methods for Robotic Transfemoral Prostheses
NSH 3305Abstract: Amputees face a number of gait deficits due to a lack of control and power from their mechanically-passive prostheses. Of crucial importance among these deficits are those related to balance, as falls and a fear of falling can cause an avoidance of activity that leads to further debilitation. In this thesis, we investigate the [...]
Vigneshram Krishnamoorthy – MSR Thesis Talk
Newell-Simon Hall 3305Title: A Computational Framework for Norm-Aware Reasoning in Autonomous Systems Abstract: Autonomous agents are increasingly deployed in complex social environments where they not only have to reason about their domain goals but also about norms that can impose constraints on task performance. Integrating task planning with norm aware reasoning is a challenging problem due to [...]