Sam RodriguezPost Doctoral Fellows

Computer Science and Engineering

Email: sor8786@neo.tamu.edu

Webpage: https://parasol.tamu.edu/~sor8786/

Research Interests:

My work is focused on improving group behaviors in multi-agent systems by incorporating motion planning techniques with an agent-based approach. In our system, agents can have a range of behaviors, capabilities, levels of communication, knowledge of the environment and coordination . We investigate how agents can work cooperatively to perform tasks, plan paths in dynamic environments, and influence other groups of agents in an environment. The specific applications I have worked on are pursuit-evasion scenarios, evacuation behaviors and shepherding techniques. I have also worked on adapting various motion planning algorithms to produce more efficient and effective algorithms for path planning in high dimensional space.