About CAS Lab

The Virginia Tech Laboratory for Coordination at Scale, or CAS Lab, studies autonomy in large-scale systems. We place particular emphasis on the relationship between agent-to-agent interaction and scalable decentralized coordination. Our primary research interests fall into the following areas:

• Networked Dynamical Systems and Distributed Control
• Decentralized Decision-Making and Optimization
• Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Coordination
• Ultra Large-Scale Systems, such as Swarms, Internet of Things (IoT), and Cloud/Fog Computing for Distributed Autonomy

See our YouTube channel for videos of our recent work. We are always interested in creative, self-motivated individuals. Contact us for opportunities to join CAS Lab.

Recent CAS Lab News

• Dr. Williams is Co-Chair of the Technical Program committee for the upcoming Ridge and Valley AUVSI Symposium on Intersections in Autonomous Systems, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, Ridge and Valley Chapter, October 9, 2018.
• Dr. Williams is the PI on a recently awarded NSF NRI 2.0 grant for $1.47M over 4 years! This work will study multi-UAV systems for search and rescue, National Science Foundation, October 1, 2018.
• Dr. Williams is the PI on a recently awarded NSF CPS grant, funded by the USDA for $823k over 3 years! This work will study heterogeneous multi-robot systems for precision grazing, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States Department of Agricuture, September 1, 2018.
• Our paper on observability with environmental disturbances for multi-agent systems will appear at CDC 2018 in Miami, Florida USA, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, August 1, 2018.
• Congratulations to Vihan Talur on successfully defending his MEng project "Investigating a Low-Power Edge Computing Solution for SAR Applications", ECE Department, Virginia Tech, August 1, 2018.
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