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GRASP Seminar Series: Spring 2008
April 18, 11:00 a.m., Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (3330 Walnut Street)
Sonia
Martinez
University of California at San Diego
"Models, Complexity and Algorithms for Cooperative Multiagent Systems"
Abstract: Cooperative robotic networks present new challenges
that lie at the confluence of communication, computing, sensing, and
control. A lot is known about the individual components of these networked
systems, and yet novel theoretical developments are needed to integrate
these components into autonomous networks with predictable behavior.
The objective of this talk is to present recently developed
modeling, analysis, and design tools for motion coordination of cooperative
networks. In our exposition, we pay special attention
to the characterization of the correctness, performance, and cost of
coordination algorithms. We illustrate our technical approach in
algorithms for practical multiagent rendezvous and agreement that account
for measurement and/or quantization errors.
Biography: Sonia Martínez received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mathematics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in May 2002. Following a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, she obtained a Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship and held appointments at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and at the Center for Control, Dynamical systems and Computation (CCDC) of the University of California, Santa Barbara. In a broad sense, Dr Martínez's main reseach interests include systems and information theory, nonlinear control theory and robotics. In particular, she has focused on the modeling and control of robotic sensor networks, the development of distributed coordination algorithms for groups of autonomous vehicles, and the geometric control of mechanical systems. For her work on the control of underactuated mechanical systems she received the Best Student Paper award at the 2002 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. She was the recipient of a NSF CAREER Award in 2007.
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