UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #1239 | Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement

Submission information

Submission Number: 1239

Submission ID: 20791

Submission UUID: 16fb83c0-d6e8-4607-a782-b8a6458fcd58

Submission URI: /urop-research-mentor-project-submission-portal

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Created: Mon, 08/18/2025 - 02:06 PM

Completed: Mon, 08/18/2025 - 04:07 PM

Changed: Fri, 10/31/2025 - 03:30 PM

Remote IP address: 68.63.41.233

Submitted by: Anonymous

Language: English

Is draft: No

Webform: UROP Project Proposal Portal

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Research Mentor Information

Primary Research Mentor Name Fengjiao Liu

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Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) fliu@eng.famu.fsu.edu

Position Title Faculty

FSU College (if applicable) FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Additional Research Mentor(s)

Research Assistant Supervisor (if different from above) Xiaoyang Ming

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Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) xm24b@fsu.edu

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Overall Project Details

Title of the Project Convergence Rate Analysis in Multi-Agent Systems

Project Keywords multi-agent system, graph theory, reinforcement learning

Are you currently looking for research assistants? No

Number of Research Assistants Needed 1

Relevant Research Assistant Major(s) Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering

Project Location: The location is flexible, we can discuss on Zoom or on Engineering campus, or occasionally on FSU main campus

If the project location is off campus, does the research assistant(s) need to provide their own transportation? No, the project is remote

Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s): Fully Remote

Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work? 6 hours per week

Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work? Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)

Overall Research Project Description In multi-agent systems, multiple (intelligent) agents often need to reach consensus on their decisions via local communication with their neighboring agents within their sensing radii. Naturally, the convergence rate of their decisions depends on how well-connected their communication network is. In this project, we propose to study how adding and removing an edge in the communication network, which can be either directed or undirected, will affect the convergence rate of the consensus for multi-agent systems. In particular, given a communication network, we would like to study adding (or removing) which edge will contribute the most to increasing (or decreasing, respectively) the convergence rate. We may need to adopt a reinforcement learning approach for this project.

Research Tasks literature review, understanding the convergence rate from a graph-theoretical point of view, simulation and coding.

Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Recommended: a certain level of math background to understand the problem from a graph-theoretical point of view.
Required: coding and programming skills.

Mentoring Philosophy The students should have a good math background and are expected to work independently and plan their timelines. The advisor and students can have a short Zoom meeting biweekly to discuss progress and challenges.

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Are you interested in participating in the UROP Research Mentor Roundtable? No

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UROP Program Elements

Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication Yes

UROP Performance Evaluation Yes

Materials Grant Yes

UROP Poster Presentation Yes

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Year 2025

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