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SUMMARY:Modeling and distributed control methods for multi-robot systems: 
 Achievements and trends at DISAL. 
DTSTART:20091204T101500
DTSTAMP:20260407T210951Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. A. Martinoli\, Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algor
 ithms Laboratory\, EPFL.\nIn this talk\, I will first highlight the challe
 nges related to the design\, control\, modeling\, \nperformance evaluation
  and optimization of distributed intelligent systems. I will then shift \n
 my focus on one particular instance of such system class: distributed robo
 tic systems. In \nparticular\, I will describe selected modeling and distr
 ibuted control methods that we \ndeveloped in order to deal with resource-
 constrained\, mobile robotic nodes\, which have to \noperate and coordinat
 e their actions in a shared real environment. I will support the \ndiscuss
 ion with a few recent case studies concerned with distributed sensing and 
 \nmanipulation missions\, in particular using miniature robots of a few ce
 ntimeters in size. \nFinally\, I will extrapolate a few lessons we learned
  from such methods and outline the \nimportance to combine them\, when app
 ropriate\, with data-based methods relying on robust \nmachine-learning al
 gorithms in order to overcome some of their limitations. 
LOCATION:MEC2405 
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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