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Center for Cooperative Systems

Director: Dr. Marwan Bikdash, College of Engineering

The Center for Cooperative Systems conducts research on the modeling, monitoring, control, and operation of systems in which a large number of agents or subsystems operate at various levels of autonomy, adaptation, intelligence, and cooperation. Examples of such systems include robotic systems that collaborate with human operators, social networks, sensor networks, and infrastructure networks populated by humans and autonomous systems.

The Center’s research is multi-disciplinary and draws on the expertise of several faculty and students. Disciplines involved include:

• Formation flying of collaborating spacecraft;
• Pattern recognition from acoustical and seismic sensors;
• Computational modeling of networks of social agents;
• Reduced-order modeling of the diffusion of influence over networks;
• Control, collaboration and decision making via large information systems such as the Internet or geographic information systems;
• Evolution of behavior in populations under various levels of competition;
• Survivable networks;
• High-confidence avionic system technologies for enhancing space vehicle mission planning and analysis;
• Flight dynamics, guidance/navigation, control and cooperation for manned and unmanned vehicle formation and cooperation; and
• Crew system health diagnosis/monitoring, fault accommodation and reliability

The center has more than 3,000 square feet of laboratory and office space. One room is dedicated to mobile robots, one to manipulating robots, and another to advanced modeling and simulations.

The Mobile Robot Laboratory is equipped with several moving platforms with advanced sensor capability such as LIDAR and capable of performing difficult tasks requiring cooperation. Research is conducted on adaptive motion planning and control, perception of cluttered environments, and cooperation between humans and robots using intuitive interfaces.

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