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Events for April 11, 2013
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USC Robotics Open House
Thu, Apr 11, 2013 @ 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Receptions & Special Events
Robotics faculty, postdocs, and students are proud to host the annual USC Robotics Open House on April 11, 2013 (10 am - 4 pm).
The open house will be held on the 4th floor of RTH and in HNB room 10. Please visit and learn what is new in robotics@usc.
Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES) was established in fall 2002. It is an interdisciplinary organized research unit (ORU) in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering that focuses on the science and technology of effective, robust, and scalable robotic systems, with broad and far-reaching applications. CRES facilitates interdisciplinary interactions and collaboration through its robotics faculty and its large team of interdisciplinary affiliates and serves as a linch pin for strategic research areas at USC. CRES projects span the areas of service, humanoid, distributed, reconfigurable, space, and nano robotics and impact a broad spectrum of applications, including assistance, training and rehabilitation, education, environmental monitoring and cleanup, emergency response, homeland security, and entertainment. The Center provides a tight-knit foundation for collaboration and opportunities for education and outreach.
CRES welcomes participation and new members. To get information on how to get involved, look here.
For more information, please email to cresrobotics.usc.edu.
The leadership of CRES consists of:
Maja J Mataric', Founding Director
Ari Requicha, Associate Director
Stefan Schaal, Associate Director
Wei-Min Shen, Associate Director
Gaurav Sukhatme, Associate DirectorMore Information: 2013_02_12_Open_house_ad.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 4th Floor
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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CS Colloquium: Nora Ayanian (MIT): Distributed Multirobot Coordination: From Specification to Provably Correct Execution
Thu, Apr 11, 2013 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nora Ayanian, MIT
Talk Title: Distributed Multirobot Coordination: From Specification to Provably Correct Execution
Abstract: Using a group of robots in place of a single complex robot to accomplish a task has many benefits, including simplified system repair, less down time, and lower cost. Combining heterogeneous groups of these multi-robot systems allows addressing multiple subtasks in parallel, reducing the time it takes to address many problems, such as search and rescue, reconnaissance, and mine detection. These missions demand different roles for robots, necessitating a strategy for coordinated autonomy while respecting any constraints the environment may impose. Distributed computation of control policies for heterogeneous multirobot systems is particularly challenging because of inter-robot constraints such as communication maintenance and collision avoidance, the need to coordinate robots within groups, and the dynamics of individual robots.
I will present algorithms for synthesizing distributed globally convergent feedback policies for navigating groups of heterogeneous robots in known constrained environments. Provably correct by construction, these algorithms automatically and concurrently solve both the path planning and control synthesis subproblems by decomposing the space into cells and sequentially composing local feedback controllers. The approach is useful for many decentralized applications of multirobot systems including task allocation, navigation in formation, and human-robot interaction. Finally, I will extend the algorithm to partially known environments, where dynamic task reassignment allows the team to cope with unknown hazards in the environment while still providing guarantees on convergence and safety.
Biography: Nora Ayanian is a postdoctoral associate in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. She received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, in 2008 and 2011, respectively.
Host: Fei Sha
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
