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I received my Master’s with distinction in Robotics from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2020. I am currently a PhD candidate in the Mathematical Decision-Making group at the Department of Control and Operations, TU Delft.
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My main research interests include intelligent decision-making in robotics, AI-based control, robust optimization, search-and-rescue operations, and multi-robot systems.
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Institution
TU Delft
Department
Aerospace engineering
Position
PhD candidate
Location
Delft, Netherlands
Publications (1 )
Multiple Robots Avoid Humans To Get the Jobs Done: An Approach to Human-aware Task Allocation
10.1109/ECMR50962.2021.9568843
Multi-robot Task Allocation (MRTA) is the problem of assigning tasks to robots subject to a performance objective. Among existing approaches to MRTA, auction-based methods are widely used. In an auction-based method, each robot typically computes its Euclidean distance to all the given tasks, and those values are bids based on which a global auctioneer allocates the tasks to them. Although simple to compute, these approaches result in an inefficient navigation of robots to reach the tasks in an environment populated with humans. We overcome this limitation by augmenting bids in an auction-based MRTA method with knowledge of human motions. As a result, this augmented task allocation method may, for instance, assign a task to a robot which is further away so long as the robot avoids possibly congested places. We validate the approach through simulated fleets of robots in a shopping centre and a small-scale warehouse environment. Our results show significant improvement over the allocation that ignores knowledge of human dynamics.
Published with Tomasz Piotr Kucner; Masoumeh Mansouri on 2021-08-31
Education (3 )
Institution
Zachodniopomroski Uniwerstyet Technologiczny w Szczecinie
Degree type
bachelor
Field of study
engineering-engineering-3
Time
2015-09-01 - 2019-02-15
Institution
University of Birmingham
Degree type
master
Field of study
engineering-engineering-3, ai-data-science
Time
2019-09-01 - 2020-08-15
Institution
TU Delft
Degree type
doctorate
Field of study
engineering-engineering-3, ai-data-science
Time
2021-09-01 - current
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Polish - polski
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Filip Surma
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PhD candidate Filip Surma
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