Planning, Coordination and Logistics of Multi-Agent Heterogeneous Teams

This Post-Doctoral research opportunity is embedded within a team of multi-disciplinary scientists and engineers located at the Army Research Lab at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. The team's research focus is on aerial and ground based robotics systems and autonomy with the objective to further the fundamental sciences of these fields as tailored by Army relevant problems and end goals. The opportunity will be formulating research in the area of autonomous multi-agent teams with an emphasis on the energy constraints associated with their mission planning and logistics of operation. The goal of this research is to develop new techniques and algorithms that can better plan the missions of aerial and ground based robotic teams. Research outcomes will be implemented in software to be evaluated in live and simulated environments coordinated with other team members. The researcher will perform research in multi-agent teams of autonomous systems with an emphasis on tasking systems in resource constrained environments, formulate the research space and apply known and new techniques to Army relevant problems for autonomous teams of systems with a focus on fundamental research to push the state of the science. The opportunity additionally includes contributing guidance to the current project team and to external university partners in this field, publishing results to the larger scientific community through formal conference and journal submissions, and supporting demonstrations in simulation and on live systems.