Private Event
Search for Smart Agents by UAV Teams
Speaker
Roee Francos
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Host
Polina Golland
CSAIL MIT
Abstract:
Suppose that in a given planar circular region, there are some smart mobile agents, and we would like to find them using teams of sweeping agents. A smart agent is an agent capable of detecting and responding to the motions of searchers by performing evasive maneuvers, to avoid detection. We assume various search configurations for the sweeping team of agents, and present guaranteed search techniques for single agent and multi agent teams. These search procedures enable both confinement of the smart agents to their original domain as well as complete detection of all of them by searching the entire expanding domain. Furthermore, we investigate the dual problem of devising guaranteed defense policies for protecting a given region from the entrance of smart mobile agents by detecting them using a team of sweeping agents. The desired outcome of the developed protocols is a defense strategy of the original domain and for its expansion.
Suppose that in a given planar circular region, there are some smart mobile agents, and we would like to find them using teams of sweeping agents. A smart agent is an agent capable of detecting and responding to the motions of searchers by performing evasive maneuvers, to avoid detection. We assume various search configurations for the sweeping team of agents, and present guaranteed search techniques for single agent and multi agent teams. These search procedures enable both confinement of the smart agents to their original domain as well as complete detection of all of them by searching the entire expanding domain. Furthermore, we investigate the dual problem of devising guaranteed defense policies for protecting a given region from the entrance of smart mobile agents by detecting them using a team of sweeping agents. The desired outcome of the developed protocols is a defense strategy of the original domain and for its expansion.