Resilient Robots: Resilient robot teams juggle competing priorities without deadlock

August 12, 2022

By Leah Burrows | Press contact

A robot, or a group of robots, on a mission often have conflicting priorities.  The primary mission of a team of search and rescue robots, for example, is to find survivors. But when they do, they also need to be able to send information to the rest of the team. The best way to find survivors may be to spread out, but the best way to send information is to stay close together. If robotic teams are going to be deployed in more real-world situations, they’re going to need a system to balance these priorities.

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