Our research focuses enabling reliable control over constrained communication networks. Communication is a critical resource when it comes to multi agent autonomy. In many settings, such as when the agents are mobile, the communication will necessarily be wireless. Communication between agents and controllers must satisfy constraints on reliability and latency to ensure both safety and satisfactory performance. Meanwhile, physical wireless resources (like time, bandwidth, and power) are fundamentally scarce. This motivates our research into (1) the design of control systems that use communication resources efficiently and (2) approaches to control-communication co-design that enable reliable control over resource constrained networks.
