Autonomous adaptive marine sampling
| Dates: | 24 October 2023 |
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| Times: | 11:00 - 12:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Prathyush P. Menon |
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Welcome to this EEE Control & Robotics seminar
Robotic vehicles have proven effective for studying environmental features and surveying areas. Some of their characteristics are relatively low deployment and operational costs, allowing long-term monitoring of the phenomena of interest with limited direct human intervention and high endurance. Although onboard computation capabilities are available, vehicles are operated pre-programmed in several practical applications. While such preplanned sampling strategies allow deep coverage of the considered area, they are often associated with high costs in terms of vehicle operation and mission time. Yet, they do not necessarily gather valuable information as desired. This talk discusses the navigational improvements yielding certain autonomous behaviours, mission plans and their demonstrations.
Speaker
Prathyush P. Menon
Organisation: University of Exeter
Biography: Prathyush P. Menon is associated with the Department of Engineering, University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K. He leads the Cooperative Robotics and Autonomous NEtworks research lab and is deputy director of the Center for Future Clean Mobility. He is also a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received PhD in control engineering from the Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, U.K., in 2007. Prathyush has 15 years of academic experience. He also had five years of industrial experience in avionics and flight control integration and validation. His research interests include control, autonomy, graph theoretic multi-agent systems, robust nonlinear estimation, optimisation and simulation-based robustness analysis and electrification towards net-zero technology.
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Engineering A_3A.016 M&T
Nancy Rothwell Building
Booth Street East
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