Research Areas

Main research projects are listed below. There’s a lot more that isn’t covered here, but you can find by browsing the publications, by topic.

Rational Swarms
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, Game Theory, and Robot Swarms
Computational Modeling of Human Social Cognition
Algorithms and Computer Models of Human Social Cognition.
Plan-, Goal-, and Intent- Recognition
Algorithms that allow one agent to understand what others are doing, intend to do, and want to achieve.
Rivendell: Project-Based Scientific Paper Search
A search engine for scientists, using machine learning to assist in searching for papers in a given topic.
ISF Smart Swarms Center
The ISF Smart Swarms Center investigates mixed robot and animal swarms.
Tolkien Project: Programming Molecular Robots (Nanobots)
The Tolkien Project seeks to develop programming infrastructure (programming languages, simulators, libraries) to revolutionize the development of nanobots (molecular robots) for medical applications.
Multi-robot formation maintenance
Multiple robots maintaining a geometric formation or localizing with respect to each other.
BITE: Bar Ilan Teamwork Engine
Distributed multi-robot teamwork control architecture. Whatever the task, the robots will act as a team.
Multi-Robot Teamwork in Coverage, Patrolling, and Formation Maintenance.
Multiple robots maintaining a geometric formation, covering an area, or patrolling.