Multi-Agent ASV Platform

Fleet of autonomous boats deployed during NATO REP17 exercises

For this project I designed, built, and programmed 20 autonomous surface vehicles to serve as a test platform for the GAMS and MADARA middlewares for distributed AI. We implemented several distributed algorithms for surface-to-air signaling using vehicle formations and asset defense against a line-of-sight attacker, which we demonstrated at the NATO CMRE REP17 exercises in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Troia, Portugal. The video above documents our participation in these exercises. Additionally, the video below shows some of our asset defense algorithms running on the ASVs in a lake near Pittsburgh, PA (annotations and defense performance metrics overlaid on aerial video).

Relevant Publications

Design, Verification and Validation of Distributed Artificial Intelligence from Simulations to Reality

James Edmondson, Christopher Tomaszewski, et al.
Technical Report [PDF]