Please join the College of Engineering for our next Applied AI Futures seminar, part of the Dean's Distinguished Seminar Series. Maria Gini, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota, will deliver a seminar titled "Can I Trust My Teammates? Are they Friends or Foes?" 

Autonomy in a multi-robot system refers to the ability to make decisions and perform tasks independently. To be successful, robots must be equipped with adequate sensors to gather data and actuators, so they can make decisions accordingly. But this is not enough. There is the potential for some team members not to be cooperative. They could simply be lazy or slow at doing their work, perhaps due to battery problems or sensor failures, but they could also intentionally disrupt the work of the team. How can those undesirable behaviors be detected? Recognition of potential issues and adaptation are necessary, especially for critical and time sensitive tasks. We propose to measure trust using a model of trust that has been proposed in the agents’ community and present preliminary results.