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HoTDeC (HOvercraft Testbed for DEcentralized Control) is an autonomous vehicle testbed developed at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It consists of several autonomous, wirelessly inter-connected hovercraft that can be operatedvia the internet. In 2001, HoTDeC was the first ever testbed that featured agents with the following properties: * Fully autonomous * Inter-networked * Marginally stable * Peer-affecting dynamics (peer drag and thrust effects similar to interacting aircraft) * Controlled using wireless feedback