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GRASP Seminar Series: Fall 2006
November 3, 11:00 a.m., Wu & Chen Auditorium
Bruce Francis
University of Toronto
"Distributed control of autonomous mobile robots"
Abstract: In 2001, the paper "Coordination of groups of mobile autonomous agents using nearest neighbor rules," by Jadbabaie, Lin, and Morse blazed a new research path on the distributed control of autonomous agents, such as mobile robots. That paper showed how mobile robots, modeled as kinematic points, can rendezvous using only local sensing capabilities, provided the graph of who can see whom is sufficiently connected over time. The paper left open the design of motion control laws so that sufficient connectivity is indeed maintained.
This talk will go over research at the University of Toronto and elsewhere
on such problems of coordination, for both kinematic points and unicycles.
Biography: Bruce Francis is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on distributed robot networks and the challenges of coordinated control of a network of mobile autonomous robots. Prof. Francis received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1975.
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