{"id":12996,"date":"2023-09-22T15:32:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalfutures.kth.se\/?page_id=12996"},"modified":"2024-03-01T16:14:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T15:14:23","slug":"designing-rules-for-multi-robot-systems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpmu-tris.sys.kth.se\/digitalfutures\/research\/postdoc-fellowships\/postdoc-fellowships-ongoing-projects\/designing-rules-for-multi-robot-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing Rules for Multi-Robot Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraphs\">\n<p>July 2023 \u2013 July 2025<\/p>\n<p><em>Objective<br \/>\n<\/em>This project aims to engineer the rules by which intelligent robots interact with each other in public spaces. In particular, this project focuses on tools from the field of mechanism design, which strives to set rules for interaction between rational agents. Designing rules via mechanism design allows for systems where robots collaborate toward global goals, even when their individual goals and specifications differ. Mechanism design, coupled with tools from formal methods and planning,\u00a0 can help achieve global goals like safely sharing resources, minimizing the risk of failures in uncertain systems, and engendering the trust of humans.<\/p>\n<p><em>Background<br \/>\n<\/em>Multi-robot planning is a complex optimization problem that must consider both the goals of each robot and the <em>interaction<\/em> between those goals. The first step toward solving this problem requires understanding the realities of modern-day robots. The second step requires meta-reasoning through game theory. This problem becomes more complicated with the introduction of humans, who interact with robots in unique and often unpredictable ways.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>About the Digital Futures Postdoc Fellow<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Anna Gautier <\/strong>is a postdoctoral researcher in artificial intelligence and robotics. She works in the Robotics, Perception and Learning division at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Anna obtained her PhD from the University of Oxford in July 2023, with a thesis entitled \u201cResource Allocation for Constrained Multi-Agent Systems.\u201d Her research interests include multi-agent systems, human-robot interaction, planning under uncertainty, formal methods and mechanism design.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main supervisor<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Jana Tumova<\/strong>, Associate Professor at the Department of Robotics, Perception, and Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Digital Futures Faculty<\/p>\n<p><em>Co-supervisor<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Iolanda Leite<\/strong>, Associate Professor at the Department of Robotics, Perception, and Learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Digital Futures Faculty<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the recorded presentation at the Digitalize in Stockholm 2023 event:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"POSTDOC POSTER SESSION 2: Designing Rules For Multi Robot Systems\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xO2ho1KDqBU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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