主要研究面向自主无人系统的分布式协同感知与交互、协同控制与优化决策、人机物共融协同、群体智能激励涌现机理等理论。重点突破复杂动态场景下自主无人系统感知理解与实时精准定位、自适应自主导航与控制以及群智融合与增强等核心技术。开发无人车、机器人等核心控制与人工智能软、硬件技术，建立自主无人系统及集群系统的共性核心技术支撑平台，支撑无人系统应用和产业发展。
The center focuses on the study of fundamental theory of autonomous unmanned systems and collective intelligence, particularly on distributed perception and interaction, cooperative control and optimization, human machine integration and collaboration, and emergence mechanism ****ysis for collective intelligence. It aims to make some breakthroughs on the core technologies for autonomous unmanned systems, such as intelligent environment perception and real-time localization, autonomous navigation and adaptive control, collective intelligence emergence and enhancement in complex and dynamic scenes, etc. It concentrates on the development of artificial intelligence related software and hardware technologies as well as the establishment of research platforms for autonomous unmanned systems and multi-agent systems, to support the application and industrialization of autonomous unmanned systems and robots.
标志性成果：
工业车辆无人驾驶“自主大脑”
Autonomous Brain for unmanned industrial vehicles
工业车辆无人驾驶“自主大脑”是首款自主研发、融合无人驾驶与自主控制领域多种导航技术为一体的工业车辆核心车载控制器，拥有全系列导航与定位技术（包括激光、视觉、惯性导航等），兼容差速、舵轮、全向等驱动方式的工业车辆，实现了多个国际国内首创，申请/授权发明专利30多项，并实现了产业化。
Autonomous Brain for unmanned industrial vehicles is the core controller making industrial vehicles become autonomous. It has a full range of navigation and localization technologies (including laser-guided, vision-guided, inertial navigation, etc.) and is compatible with all types of industrial vehicles including differential-driving, steering-wheel driving, and omnidirectional driving. This unmanned vehicle controller has achieved many international and domestic initiatives, with more than 30 patents granted and industrialization realized.
多机器人协同及SwarmPro群智调度控制系统
Multi-robot collaboration and SwarmPro control system
多机器人协同及SwarmPro群智调度控制系统首创分布式协同的群智调度控制架构，同时调度上千台自主机器人与智能设备，在系统协同能力和柔性作业能力方面取得重大突破，是企业智能物流系统、柔性制造系统的核心。相关技术实现了产业化，并创造了上亿的经济效益。
Multi-robot collaboration and SwarmPro control system pioneered distributed control architecture for multi-robot systems. The system is capable of coordinating thousands of autonomous robots and intelligent devices, which makes a major breakthrough in system synergy and flexible operation capability, and becomes the core of enterprise intelligent logistics systems as well as smart manufacturing systems. Related technologies have achieved industrialization and generated hundreds of millions of economic and social benefits.