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   * Contacts : [[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mbiro|Mauro Birattari]] and Manuele Brambilla (IRIDIA)
+===== ROBO-POINTER -- A New Device for Human-Robot Interaction =====
+In this project, the student will design and implement a novel human-robots interaction system.
+The human uses a special laser pointer (called robo-pointer), and by simply pointing to a specific robot he can select it, check its status on a dedicated monitor and send to the robot instructions.
+Now, our arena is equipped with a multi-camera tracking system that allows to detect the 3D position of the robots.
+The student will design a radio sensor network to detect the 3D position of the robo-pointer.
+The two pieces of information will be combined to trigger the selection of the pointed robot.
+* Contacts : [[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mbiro|Mauro Birattari]] and Andreagiovanni Reina (IRIDIA)
+===== Collective Decision Making with Heterogeneous Agents =====
+Swarm robotics is an interesting approach to the coordination of hundreds of robots as it promotes the realization of systems which are scalable, robust and flexible.
+The master thesis will study how to provide a swarm system with the cognitive capability of collective decision making.
+Each agent has partial knowledge of the available alternatives and of their quality estimate, however the swarm, as a whole, is able to decide for the best option. Recently, numerous works have studied strategies and algorithms to implement this process in distributed systems (often taking inspiration from biology, e.g., bees or cockroaches behaviour). One of the common characteristic of these works is that all the agents of the swarm has the same behaviour. In the Master Thesis project, the student will study how heterogeneity influences the global outcome. We will consider heterogeneity both in the individual behaviour (for instance, robots can estimate diﬀerent option characteristics) and in the interaction network.
+In practice, the student is supposed to (i) model the collective decision making problem
+(ii) design and implement multi-agents simulations, and (iii) analyse and discuss the obtained
+results. Depending on the student skills and preferences, the work can focus more on theoretical
+aspects, thus favouring the modelling and analysis of the problem, or can be more practical,
+thus centring the thesis on the multi-agent implementation part. Possibly, a more practical
+thesis could result (depending on the student skills) in the implementation of a real world
+demonstrator with a swarm of up to 100 robots.
+* Contacts : [[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo|Marco Dorigo]] and Andreagiovanni Reina (IRIDIA)
+===== Online Framework to Compose Robotic Solutions =====
+The design of swarm robotics systems is a challenging task due to difficulties to predict and model swarm systems.
+The most common approach is a trial-and-error process where the developer tries solutions, tests them in simulation and corrects the code to eventually achieve the desired global outcome.
+The project aims to ease this design process: the developer have access to the code of already solved problems (called code-modules), and he can graphically combine the code-modules through a graphical interface to create his own solution.
+The student is supposed to design this novel online framework that offers two main functionalities: (1) to compose new solutions combining the existing code-models to solve new open problems, and (2) to code new code-modules and submit them to the online system.
+* Contacts : [[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mbiro|Mauro Birattari]], Andreagiovanni Reina, and Gianpiero Francesca (IRIDIA)