Collaborative Autonomy Infrastructure Workshop

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

4105 Iribe Center
University of Maryland

Overview

Developing trusted autonomy requires autonomy test & evaluation, validation, and verification (ATEVV). ATEVV is a technological and organizational challenge. Among the technology challenges is the need to build simulation platforms for evaluating the algorithms that multi-agent autonomous systems use to collaborate. A modeling and simulation infrastructure is needed by many users: (a) organizations that wish to procure and use such systems to determine which system will perform best, (b) firms developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems for specific missions; and (c) computer scientists and engineers who are inventing and enhancing new collaboration algorithms.

Because firms are now developing multi-agent collaborative systems (sometimes called “swarms”) and proposing to transition these from demonstrations and entertainment to mission execution, interest in better collaboration algorithms and determining which ones are best is increasing. Researchers have developed numerous algorithms but have done little systematic testing to compare their performance and cost. The next phase in the development of these systems is to optimize their performance, and a modeling and simulation infrastructure will help organizations do this.

In this workshop, participants will collaborate to generate infrastructure requirements, develop practical concepts, and identify potential technologies. Participants will include faculty from the University of Maryland and partners from government and corporate collaborators.

Funding for this workshop is provided through the Maryland Catalyst fund and contributions from academic units.

Registration

Please see the workshop registration page here.

Agenda