SMU Autonomous Drone Teaming Lab

The SMU Autonomous Drone Teaming Lab develops next-generation autonomous aerial systems focused on distributed intelligence, wireless coordination, resilient communications, and AI-driven multi-agent teaming.

Research in the lab includes autonomous UAV swarms, wireless drone communications, edge AI systems, reinforcement learning, drone swarm digital twins, secure collaborative autonomy, and multi-agent coordination.

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Experimental Infrastructure

The lab includes dedicated outdoor drone experimentation infrastructure designed to support safe multi-agent UAV research, autonomous flight testing, and scalable wireless systems experimentation.

Research Areas

• Autonomous UAV swarms and multi-agent coordination
• Wireless drone communications and UAV networking
• AI-driven adaptation and reinforcement learning
• Edge AI systems for autonomous platforms
• Drone swarm digital twins and simulation-to-field experimentation
• Secure collaborative autonomy and decentralized coordination

Contact

Joe Camp
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Southern Methodist University
camp@smu.edu