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[Lab image] Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory (ICLL)
Head: Stephen Smith
Contact: Stephen Smith (sfs@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Location:
NSH 1502

Associated center: CIMDS

For more information, see this lab's homepage.

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Lab Description

Problems of large-scale coordination and logistics are ubiquitous, and better solutions are becoming increasingly critical in many domains. In manufacturing, trends toward industrial globalization and constrained market focus on high value-adding products, together with new coordination concepts such as electronic marketplaces, require organizations to become more agile. Military command and control infra-structure is faced with shrinking budgets and personnel, even though current geopolitical realities demand improved capability for rapid crisis-action mission planning and deployment. The rising cost of health care places a premium on more efficient methods for administration and delivery.

Intelligent systems technologies provide new opportunities for addressing such problems of large-scale planning, scheduling and control. The Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory (ICLL) is developing new theories, techniques and software technologies that capitalize on these opportunities and enable flexible, robust, efficient, and high quality management and control of complex organizations. Our research is tackling fundamental technological challenges relating to problem complexity and solution/system scalability, decision-making under diverse and complex constraints, time-stressed decision-making in dynamic domains, human-computer collaboration, multi-agent and distributed decision-making, and solution/system reconfigurability, reuse and self-improvement. Methodologically, our research is driven by the requirements and complexities of actual applications; we are developing, validating and transitioning intelligent planning and scheduling tools in a variety of application contexts spanning manufacturing management, transportation logistics, and space mission planning.

Personnel [Past members]

Name Title Email Address
Laura Barbulescu Project Scientist laurabar@andrew.cmu.edu
Gregory's personal homepage Gregory Barlow PhD Student, RI gjb@cmu.edu
Andrea's personal homepage Andrea Brambilla Visiting Scholar abrambil@cs.cmu.edu
Charles Collins Research Programmer cwc@cs.cmu.edu
David R Crimm Research Programmer dcrimm@cs.cmu.edu
Matthew Danish Research Programmer mrd@cs.cmu.edu
Anthony's personal homepage Anthony T Gallagher Research Programmer anthonyg+@cs.cmu.edu
David's personal homepage David Hildum Project Scientist hildum@cs.cmu.edu
Ewa Kolakowska Visiting Scholar ewa@cs.cmu.edu
Hyaejin Oh PhD Student, LTI jeanoh@cs.cmu.edu
Zack Rubinstein Systems Scientist zbr@cs.cmu.edu
Stephen's personal homepage Stephen Smith Research Professor sfs@cs.cmu.edu
Matthew J Streeter Postdoctoral Fellow matts@cs.cmu.edu
Pradeep R Varakantham Postdoctoral Fellow pradeepv@cs.cmu.edu
Xiaofang's personal homepage Xiaofang Wang PhD Student, Tepper xiaofanw@andrew.cmu.edu
Terry Lyle Zimmerman Project Scientist wizim@cs.cmu.edu

Current Projects [Past Projects]

AMC Barrelmaster Scheduling - Integrated management of airlift and tanker missions at the USAF Air Mobility Command.
Coordinators - The DARPA COORDINATORS program defines a challenging multi-agent application, with agents operating in a highly dynamic environment, where no agent has a complete view of the problem.
Profile-Based Scheduling Procedures - We are investigating approaches to constraint-posting scheduling.
Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning - The focus of the RADAR project is to build a cognitive assistant that embodies machine learning technology that is able to function without requiring expert tuning or specially trained users.

Recent publications [View all 112 publications]

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