Australia France Network of Doctoral Excellence (AUFRANDE Program), DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE ON A GROUP OF AUTONOMOUS SY...

Flinders University, Australia

Updated: about 1 year ago
Location: Bedford Park, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Deadline: 11 Apr 2023

We are seeking one outstanding candidates for PhD scholarships for an EU-funded project AUFRANDE: DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE ON A GROUP OF AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS UNDER RESOURCE AND COMMUNICATION CONSTRAINTS. This exciting project is a partnership between Flinders University and Institut Mines Telecom Atlantique (IMT), France.

This project will investigate efficient reasoning processes, communication strategies and underlying low-level control mechanisms necessary to coordinate heterogeneous teams of autonomous marine vehicles, in dynamic and uncertain environments. In this work, the autonomous agents must achieve a common agreement, via a negotiation procedure, in order to solve complex problems collaboratively. Under this collaborative framework, each agent will have distinct resources, abilities, viewpoints, and priorities. We expect this solution to be general enough to allow for heterogeneous teams operating across air, surface, and underwater domains, and also between artificial and human agents. Therefore, our aim is the development of a mixed-initiative system, where the interaction and negotiation between the agents will maximise their resources to optimise the successful execution of a common task.


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