Developed a policy to control a swarm of drones that attempts to negotiate with and save civilians from a forest fire and achieved a success rate of over 95% on the task. This project was done under the guidance of Prof. Kallirroi Georgila and Prof. David Traum.
Skanda Vaidyanath
Staff Research Scientist
My research interests lie primarily in the area of reinforcement learning (RL) and control to build agents that can acquire complex behaviours in the real world via interaction.
Talks
The Human-Swarm Project
Developed RL policies to control a swarm of drones to save humans from a forest fire. For the IUSSTF-Viterbi programme 2019