Distributed Intelligence Laboratory
At UT, I was part of Distributed Intelligence Laboratory,
at the University of Tennessee and we focus on cooperative
robotics and distributed artificial intelligence based issues
My research under Dr. Lynne Parker has focused on techniques to improve fault-tolerance for complex multi-robot teams.
Other research work include dealing with
distributed resource management and fault tolerance
for a heterogeneous collection of mobile robots.
n one of our projects, we successfully identified the advantages of
using swarms of 'dumber' robots over
single 'intelligent' robot towards the achievement of a goal.
My contribution was to show how a group of 'dumb' robots can be guided by a pair
of 'intelligent' robots, in order to reach a desired area in
an unknown environment, or what we call "shepherding".