The Distributed and Collaborative Intelligent Systems and Technology (DCIST) CRA aims to study the underlying science questions and develop new methods and concepts that will enable these abilities through behaviors that are not brittle and preprogrammed but rather adaptive, resilient, and learned. Thrust 1 – Multi-Robot Collaborative Autonomy handles a large team of autonomous robots acquiring information from an unknown and dynamic environment while each agent performs individual and team complex missions. In this paper, we present an overview of this thrust and experimental results about robust navigation, distributed semantic mapping and localization, multi-agent communication, decision-making and maximization of knowledge about adversarial dynamic targets.
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