Najava predavanja: N. Tsourveloudis "Unifying the Autonomous Navigation of Robotic Vehicles: A Fuzzy Yet Realistic View"

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Unifying the Autonomous Navigation of Robotic Vehicles: A Fuzzy Yet Realistic View

Nikos C. Tsourveloudis
Intelligent Systems and Robotics Laboratory
Dept. of Production Eng. and Management
Technical University of Crete, Greece

Predavanje će se održati u ponedjeljak, 3. prosinca 2007., u 11 sati u Sivoj vijećnici, FER-a (početak u 11:15). 

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Sažetak predavanja:

Robotic vehicles should be capable of performing desired tasks in unstructured, uncertain and potentially hostile environments. They may be remotely-operated or function (semi-) autonomously without human intervention. In both situations it is important to deploy communication networks able to support the real time control applications especially in cases of heterogeneous robotic teams. Lots of papers have been written on the autonomous navigation of robotic vehicles. However, it seems that it will take a while before unmanned robot vehicles function as completely autonomous entities in diverse environments. We will present a general fuzzy logic control framework along with its application specific modifications to support, evaluate and justify a unified control architecture towards autonomous robotic vehicle navigation. The developed architecture is part of a more than ten years research work on unmanned navigation at the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Laboratory of the Technical University of Crete. Successful applications of collision free motion control of ground, aerial and underwater unmanned vehicles will be presented. The wireless communication networks used for ground and aerial robots decentralized feedback control will be discussed. The common characteristic, in all applications that will be presented, is that regardless of the type of the vehicle, the navigation architecture used for collision free motion remains unaltered. Experimental and not simulation results will be shown so as to validate the implemented techniques.

O predavaču:

Nikos Tsourveloudis is an Associate Professor and Director of the Machine Tools Laboratory and the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Laboratory (www.robolab.tuc.gr) of the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Chania, Greece. His research interests are in the areas of: 1) Autonomous Navigation of Robotic Vehicles, 2) Modeling and Control of Flexible and Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, 3) Robotic Design and 4) Soft Computing applications in Manufacturing Technology. Dr. Tsourveloudis was (1992-1995) the President of the Greek Association of Industrial Engineers. He worked (1997-1998) as a Research Scientist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. In the 2006 fall semester he was Visiting Professor at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. Dr. Tsourveloudis is a member of numerous professional and scientific organizations. The US NSF, the European Union, the Hellenic GSRT, the EADS-3SIGMA SA and other private companies, have funded his research. As of September 2007, he serves as the Vice-chairman of the Department of Production Engineering and Management of the TUC.