Kiril Solovey

Network coding, often overlooked in robotics, can drastically improve the reliability and timeliness of multi-robot communication, outperforming traditional retransmission methods in safety-critical scenarios.

By reframing robot inspection planning as a network flow problem, this work achieves a 30-50% reduction in optimality gaps and scales to instances previously intractable for state-of-the-art methods.

Coordinating fleets of autonomous vessels to clean up multiple oil spills can be near-optimized in minutes using a hybrid optimization approach, enabling rapid, risk-aware responses to large-scale disasters.