- Concerns the study of multiagent systems, typically interacting with each other in some form through a network.
- Agents operate cooperatively to achieve some global objective while having only limited compute, sensing, and communications.
- There are two inherent limitations to communications — the range of communication (i.e., how close the agents have to be to establish a communication channel), and the bandwidth of the information (i.e., how much information can be communicated at once before channels are saturated and noisy)
- Sensors are limited in their range and resolution
- Agents implemented in practice may only carry limited hardware and thus have limited computational capabilities.
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