6 papers
Resilient Decentralized Ergodic Coverage for Scalable Multi-Robot Systems in Unknown Time-Varying Environments
Maria G. Mendoza, Victoria Marie Tuck, Chinmay Maheshwari +1
Maintaining situational awareness in high-stakes multi-robot applications requires balancing exploration of unobserved regions with sustained monitoring of changing Regions of Inte…
Hierarchical Generative Agents for Simulating Sequential Human Behavior
Maria G. Mendoza, Lucas Waldburger, Jin Lee +1
Complex cognitive, emotional, and social processes shape human evacuations during natural disasters. Accurate modeling and understanding of human behavior in disasters or emergenci…
Dynamic Multi-Robot Task Allocation under Uncertainty and Communication Constraints: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Maria G. Mendoza, Pan-Yang Su, Bryce L. Ferguson +1
We study dynamic multi-robot task allocation under uncertain task completion, time-window constraints, and incomplete information. Tasks arrive online over a finite horizon and mus…
Coordinated Autonomous Drones for Human-Centered Fire Evacuation in Partially Observable Urban Environments
Maria G. Mendoza, Addison Kalanther, Daniel Bostwick +3
Autonomous drone technology holds significant promise for enhancing search and rescue operations during evacuations by guiding humans toward safety and supporting broader emergency…
Resolving Conflicting Constraints in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Layered Safety
Jason J. Choi, Jasmine Jerry Aloor, Jingqi Li +3
Preventing collisions in multi-robot navigation is crucial for deployment. This requirement hinders the use of learning-based approaches, such as multi-agent reinforcement learning…
Privacy Preserving Mechanisms for Coordinating Airspace Usage in Advanced Air Mobility
Chinmay Maheshwari, Maria G. Mendoza, Victoria Marie Tuck +5
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) operations are expected to transform air transportation while challenging current air traffic management practices. By introducing a novel market-based…