The main research topics in the lab are the following:
- Autonomous, adaptive, multi-agent systems
- Biology-inspired emergent computing and swarming
- Game theory and computational economics
We are developing technologies for efficiently coordinating individual resource-constrained components to behave as a single, autonomous, adaptive, large-scale distributed system. The
unique contribution of our research has been to integrate
computational economics, game theory and market-based techniques with emergent computing based
techniques such as swarming, to enable resource constrained components (e.g., mobile sensor platforms, robots, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), etc.), collaboratively perform dynamic and complex tasks in an unknown environment.
The details of the different projects being performed in the C-MANTIC lab are on the projects page.