Interactive Mission Planning and Teleoperation in Marine Robotics: What's New?
IEEE CS SD Invited Seminar Series 2025 - Lecture 6 (Virtual)
We are going through a paradigm shift in how autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are deployed in marine robotics applications such as subsea inspection, monitoring, and surveillance. Despite significant developments across academia and industry in recent years, there remain many challenges and important research frontiers. This talk will highlight these challenging open problems and evolving technologies that attempt to solve these by vision, language, haptics, optics, and acoustic modalities. I will present some of our recent findings and advancements made in: (1) interactive subsea mission planning for AUVs, (2) human-machine shared autonomy for ROVs, and (3) low-power standalone operation or subsea sensors and surveillance agents.
Note: This talk is NOT going to be recorded.
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- Date: 25 Mar 2025
- Time: 12:30 AM UTC to 01:30 AM UTC
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- Co-sponsored by Media Partner: Open Research Institute (ORI)
- Starts 07 March 2025 08:00 AM UTC
- Ends 25 March 2025 01:00 AM UTC
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Md Jahidul Islam of University of Florida
Interactive Mission Planning and Teleoperation in Marine Robotics: What's New?
Biography:
Md Jahidul Islam is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. (2021) degree in Robotics from the Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) department of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on solving challenging open problems in the domains of Robotics and AIoT. In particular, he is interested in the design and development of robust perception modules that enable autonomous robots and intelligent machines to accurately interpret their surroundings in real-time. His proposed methodologies have been deployed in real-world applications such as active inspection, remote monitoring, and autonomous explorations. The novel algorithms and technological solutions behind these methods are published in premier robotics conferences (e.g., RSS, ICRA, IROS) and journals (e.g., IJRR, JFR, RA-L). Prior to his Ph.D., he obtained his M.Sc. (2015) and B.Sc. (2012) degrees from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), specializing in AI and Evolutionary Algorithms.
At the UF, Jahid is directing the RoboPI (Robot Perception and Intelligence) laboratory. The primary research focus of his group is to develop novel and improved robotics systems for autonomous inspection, surveillance, and long-term monitoring applications to address and mitigate various challenging real-world problems. He is also exploring research problems in the domains of applied machine learning and 3D computer vision – aiming at multidisciplinary use cases of AI and AIoT. His current projects are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and Texas Instruments (TI). His research publications are featured in premier robotics conferences and journals, with over 3,600 scholarly citations and two best paper awards in the past three years. He is a member of IEEE, RAS, and SPIE; and has served as an associate editor of IEEE ICRA since 2023. Follow the links for more information on his current research and publications. Contact information is listed here.
Address:Florida, United States
Agenda
- Invited talk from Dr. Md Jahidul Islam, Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the University of Florida.
- Q/A Session
- 6th lecture of the 2025 Invited Seminar Series (Virtual) organized by IEEE Computer Society San Diego Chapter. Previous lectures: 2023, 20,24 and 2025 invited seminar series.