BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:20220313T030000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3
TZNAME:EDT
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:20221106T010000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11
TZNAME:EST
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20220424T034809Z
UID:119A9FDA-7B51-4CBF-BA89-E33FC1B2B60C
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T143000
DESCRIPTION:Underwater vehicles have gained a widespread interest in the la
 st decades\, from various research communities (design\, actuation\, commu
 nication\, perception\, modelling\, navigation\, control\, etc)\, given th
 e multiple tasks they can accomplish. Their applications are multiple in d
 ifferent fields\, such as underwater inspection\, oil and gas offshore ind
 ustry\, aquaculture\, wind parks\, hydroelectric power stations\, underwat
 er archeology\, ocean cartography\, air crash and environmental investigat
 ions\, etc.\n\nOne of the potential applications of these systems deals wi
 th inspection of underwater facilities such as bridges\, hydraulic dams\, 
 Ship hulls\, aquatic environments\, etc. When we are interested in autonom
 ous control of underwater vehicles\, different challenges may arise. These
  challenges are mainly due to the inherent high nonlinearities and time va
 rying behavior of the vehicle’s dynamics subject to hydrodynamic effects
  and external disturbances. In order to avoid the degradation in the perfo
 rmance of the controlled system during a specific mission\, the vehicle is
  expected to possess a certain robustness and a self-tuning ability to com
 pensate for different kinds of uncertainties\, parameters variation and ex
 ternal disturbances. That is why robust/adaptive controllers are widely us
 ed for such complex systems.\n\nThis talk will be focused mainly on motion
  control of small underwater vehicles for inspection applications. It will
  be focused on (i) general context\, (ii) control problem formulation\, (i
 ii) related challenges (iv) control design issues and proposed solutions\,
  and finally (v) validation of the proposed control solutions through real
 -time experiments.\n\nSpeaker(s): Dr. Ahmed Chemori\, \n\nAgenda: \nThe ta
 lk will be virtual by Zoom on April 23\, 2022 between 1:00 and 2:30 PM EST
 . There is no fee and everybody is invited. Plaese use the following link 
 to participate.\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/307246
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/307246
ORGANIZER:cherif.chibane@ieee.org 
SEQUENCE:4
SUMMARY:Recent Advances in Motion Control of Underwater Vehicles for Inspec
 tion Applications
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/307246
X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Underwater vehicles have gained a widespre
 ad interest in the last decades\, from various research communities (desig
 n\, actuation\, communication\, perception\, modelling\, navigation\, cont
 rol\, etc)\, given the multiple tasks they can accomplish. Their applicati
 ons are multiple in different fields\, such as underwater inspection\, oil
  and gas offshore industry\, aquaculture\, wind parks\, hydroelectric powe
 r stations\, underwater archeology\, ocean cartography\, air crash and env
 ironmental investigations\, etc.</p>\n<p>One of the potential applications
  of these systems deals with inspection of underwater facilities such as b
 ridges\, hydraulic dams\, Ship hulls\, aquatic environments\, etc. When we
  are interested in autonomous control of underwater vehicles\, different c
 hallenges may arise. These challenges are mainly due to the inherent high 
 nonlinearities and time varying behavior of the vehicle&rsquo\;s dynamics 
 subject to hydrodynamic effects and external disturbances.&nbsp\; In order
  to avoid the degradation in the performance of the controlled system duri
 ng a specific mission\, the vehicle is expected to possess a certain robus
 tness and a self-tuning ability to compensate for different kinds of uncer
 tainties\, parameters variation and external disturbances. That is why rob
 ust/adaptive controllers are widely used for such complex systems.</p>\n<p
 >This talk will be focused mainly on motion control of small underwater ve
 hicles for inspection applications. It will be focused on (i) general cont
 ext\, (ii) control problem formulation\, (iii) related challenges (iv) con
 trol design issues and proposed solutions\, and finally (v) validation of 
 the proposed control solutions through real-time experiments.</p><br /><br
  />Agenda: <br /><p>The talk will be virtual by Zoom on April 23\, 2022 be
 tween 1:00 and 2:30 PM EST. There is no fee and everybody is invited. Plae
 se use the following link to participate.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR