North Jersey VTS/Stevens Seminar: Hybrid Multiagent Control of Autonomous Vehicle Teams
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North Jersey VTS/Stevens Seminar: Hybrid Multiagent Control of Autonomous Vehicle Teams
Speaker:
Dr. Kingsley Fregene,
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories
Time: 3PM-4PM Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Location: Babbio 110
Abstract:
The dynamics and control of autonomous vehicle teams formulated as interconnected hybrid intelligent control agents (HICA) are described in this talk. HICA is a systems- and control-oriented approach for the modeling, control and coordination of multi-agent systems in which each agent exhibits both continuous-valued and discrete-event dynamic characteristics (i.e. is a hybrid system). A HICA essentially wraps an intelligent agent around a hybrid control system core. Examples using teams of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) will be discussed. A Lyapunov stability formulation for this class of multiagent systems will also be presented. The talk will conclude with a discussion of recent results in the autonomous control of Lockheed Martin's Samarai family of Bio-Mimetic Single Wing UAVs as well as methods for applying the HICA concept to the control and coordination of Samarai teams.
Bio Sketch:
Kingsley Fregene is a Lead Research Scientist at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories. His industrial R&D activities are at the intersection of control and intelligent systems applied to autonomous vehicles and micro-scale devices. He was a Senior R&D Scientist in the Guidance, Navigation & Control group at Honeywell Labs, Minneapolis, where he also led projects in unmanned systems and industry-university research collaborations. He has held visiting research positions at the Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. He is a senior member of the IEEE and AIAA. His services to the technical community include: reviewer for the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers Program; program committee for IEEE Conference on Decision and Control; IEEE Technical Committee on Aerospace Controls; and guest editor for an upcoming special issue on UAVs and Control of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. He received his doctoral degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2002. He holds 2 patents, with several more pending.
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- Stevens Institute of Technology
- Hoboken, New Jersey
- United States 07030
- Building: Babbio Center
- Room Number: Babbio Center BC-110
- Starts 15 March 2011 03:00 PM UTC
- Ends 23 March 2011 06:30 PM UTC
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Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Location: Babbio Center 110
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ 07030