BTECH research seminar

Title
“Collaboration of Autonomous Systems”.

Abstract
Smart and autonomous systems become more prevalent in our everyday life. The implementation of such systems can be cumbersome and instilling some ‘smartness’ requires knowledge about other systems in the environment. The ongoing research investigates approaches to enable systems to collaborate with an unknown number of other systems in order to improve their overall as well as individual performance towards their tasks. To achieve active collaboration, systems require an understanding of other systems existence, their capabilities, and goals. Various approaches inspired by nature are compared against each other. Finally, we will discuss autonomous systems to not only operating together but also learning and generating knowledge in a collaborative manner.  

Bio
Lukas Esterle is an Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he leads the Autonomous Intelligent Systems group. He received his PhD from the University of Klagenfurt, Austria and was a post-doctoral researcher at the Vienna University of Technology. Afterwards, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Aston University and the University of Birmingham, UK. His research is on autonomous systems and specifically on the interaction among them with shared as well competing goals.