Robotics at the Edge: Agile and Intelligent Machines for Operating in Complex Environments
Future robotic systems must be able to operate and collaborate in complex environments with imperfect information at operationally-relevant speeds. However, today’s robots often fall far short of the agility, intuition, and resiliency required for meaningful real-world impact. In this talk, I will present on some of the research my team is conducting at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) to develop dramatically more capable robots that can operate at the very edge of physical and computational limits. In particular, I will present on our efforts to achieve agile autonomous flight with aerobatic fixed-wing UAVs for precision landing, high-speed navigation in constrained urban environments, and dynamic multi-vehicle operations. I will also present some of our recent research on the optimal coordination of multi-robot teams to achieve tactical behaviors in complex environments and terrains. Finally, I will discuss some future research directions, such as assuring controller performance, safe learning-based control, and the control of nonlinear hybrid dynamical systems.
Update: IEEE Computer Society Chapters Webinar Series Region 1 and Region 2 -- Coordinator: Katherine Grace August, PhD kit.august@gmail.com;
Also, IEEE Region 1 Professional Activities Webinar Series.
Date and Time
Location
Hosts
Registration
- Date: 23 Jan 2024
- Time: 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
-
Add Event to Calendar
- Starts 03 January 2024 12:05 PM
- Ends 23 January 2024 12:05 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Joseph Moore, PhD
Biography:
Dr. Joseph Moore is the Chief Scientist for Robotics in the Research and Exploratory Development Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) and an Assistant Research Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the JHU Whiting School of Engineering. Dr. Moore received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he focused on control algorithms for robust post-stall perching with autonomous fixed-wing aerial vehicles. During his time at JHU/APL, Dr. Moore has developed control and planning strategies for hybrid unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicles, heterogeneous multi-robot teams, and aerobatic fixed-wing vehicles. He has served as the Principal Investigator for both Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) programs that have developed flight controllers for aggressive post-stall maneuvering with fixed-wing aerial vehicles to enable precision landing and high-speed navigation in constrained environments. He is also a Principal Investigator for the Army Research Lab (ARL) Tactical Behaviors for Autonomous Maneuver program which seeks to enable tactical coordination of multi-robot teams in complex environments and terrains.
Agenda
6:30 PM Welcome and introduction
6:35 PM Presentation
7:20 PM Q&A
7:30 PM Conclude