Many agents, one mission.
Real missions aren't flown by one machine. This group studies coordinated autonomy across air, land, and sea — shared communication, distributed planning, and resilient behavior when links drop, agents fail, and the environment fights back.
How this group works.
The methods and commitments that define the lab's approach to the problem.
Teams, not soloists
Planning and control for fleets that divide tasks, cover area, and adapt as a group.
Coordinating over a lossy link
Behavior that degrades gracefully when bandwidth is scarce and the relay keeps changing — including who relays for whom.
No single point of failure
Decisions spread across the fleet, so the mission survives the loss of any one agent.
Air, land, and sea
Heterogeneous platforms sharing one picture of the mission and one communications fabric.
Open problems we're pursuing.
The questions the lab is taking on now — each a gap between what works in a demo and what works in the world.
Relay and hand-off
How a fleet keeps a connected mesh as agents move and links break — and proves it stayed connected.
Coverage under uncertainty
Coordinated search and survey when the map is wrong and the team is incomplete.
Resilient formations
Formations that reform around failure instead of falling apart.
Lead this group, or join it.
Step into the principal-investigator role through the Physical AI Investigator Program — an independent appointment with PI authority — or join the group as a research intern.
Physical AI Investigator Program
An independent investigator appointment and PI authority to lead a research line in this group — built to position you for early-career funding.
Research in this group can spin out into a company — explore Launch →