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Dr. Andrea Gasparri, Multi-Robot Systems: A Control Perspective II
Fri, Jun 07, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Research Talk by Dr. Andrea Gasparri, Assistant Professor, Engineering Department, Roma Tre University, Italy
Title: Multi-Robot Systems: A Control Perspective II
Abstract: Multi-Robot Systems represent an important research field with a wide variety of topics to be addressed. In recent years a great effort has been made by the research community towards the development of decentralized techniques to provide an adequate level of robustness and flexibility to these systems. This tutorial will provide first a general overview of this research area, focusing on the most important design aspects of a multi-robot system, e.g. control and communication architecture, and illustrating the most important research problems. Then, it will focus on the control aspects of the distributed cooperation problem. In that context, the consensus problem will be first reviewed as a starting point towards the investigation of more refined techniques to achieve spatial aggregation between the robotic units. Furthermore, the connectivity maintenance problem will be introduced, a taxonomy of the approaches available at the state of the art will be derived and some relevant techniques will be described more in detail. Finally, relevant applications in the context of multi-robot systems which rely on the distributed coordination techniques previously introduced will be highlighted.
Biography: Andrea Gasparri received the Graduate degree (cum laude) in computer science in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and automation in 2008, both from the University of Rome Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. He is currently an Assistant Professor for the Engineering Department, University of Rome Roma Tre. His current research interests include mobile robotics, sensor networks, and, more generally, networked multi-agent systems.
Dr. Gasparri is a young expert with rapidly growing recognition in the emerging area of distributed networked robotics, a field at the intersection of control, robotics, and networking that is currently gaining in importance. Dr. Gasparri will be visiting USC from May 21 to June 30, 2013.
Organizer(s): Bhaskar Krishnamachari and Gaurav Sukhatme
Sponsored by the Ming Hsieh Institute
For more information: http://mhi.usc.edu/2013/05/01/dr-andrea-gasparri/More Information: Flyer for talks.pdf
Location: EEB 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Danielle Hamra
