Towards Safe and Resilient Autonomy in Multi-Robot Systems
Abstract
In the near future, autonomous systems such as multi-robot systems are envisioned to increasingly co-exist with hu- mans in our daily lives, from household service to large- scale warehouse logistics, agriculture environment sampling, and smart city. In these applications, robots and humans as networked heterogeneous components will frequently inter- act with each other in a variety of scenarios under uncer- tain, rapidly-changing, and possibly hostile environment. On one hand, harmonious interactions among robots, as well as between robots and humans, would require safe integration (e.g. collision-free close-proximity interactions) of heteroge- neous robots, human, and human-robot autonomy. On the other hand, reliable interactions among autonomous multi- robot systems often call for resilient system integrity (e.g. communication capability with potential robot failures) to re- tain its capability of accomplishing complex tasks through coordinated behaviors. In the proposed talk, I will discuss our recent works towards safe autonomy and resilient autonomy that aim to facilitate correct-by-design robotic behaviors in a variety of applications.
BibTeX
@article{Luo_2024, title={Towards Safe and Resilient Autonomy in Multi-Robot Systems}, volume={37}, url={https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/26816}, DOI={10.1609/aaai.v37i13.26816}, abstractNote={In the near future, autonomous systems such as multi-robot
systems are envisioned to increasingly co-exist with hu-
mans in our daily lives, from household service to large-
scale warehouse logistics, agriculture environment sampling,
and smart city. In these applications, robots and humans as
networked heterogeneous components will frequently inter-
act with each other in a variety of scenarios under uncer-
tain, rapidly-changing, and possibly hostile environment. On
one hand, harmonious interactions among robots, as well as
between robots and humans, would require safe integration
(e.g. collision-free close-proximity interactions) of heteroge-
neous robots, human, and human-robot autonomy. On the
other hand, reliable interactions among autonomous multi-
robot systems often call for resilient system integrity (e.g.
communication capability with potential robot failures) to re-
tain its capability of accomplishing complex tasks through
coordinated behaviors. In the proposed talk, I will discuss our
recent works towards safe autonomy and resilient autonomy
that aim to facilitate correct-by-design robotic behaviors in a
variety of applications.}, number={13}, journal={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, author={Luo, Wenhao}, year={2024}, month={Jul.}, pages={15449-15449} }