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Tuesday, June 5
Cooperative control of soccer playing robots topic of
lecture
Advanced communication networks, standards and protocols, paired
with vigorous research in robotic control and artificial
intelligence, will some day enable robots to aid humans in space
exploration, disaster relief, and even national defense.
Dr. Raffaello D’Andrea, science engineer and assistant
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY, will speak on "Cooperative Control of
Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Vehicles" at a colloquium at 2 p.m.,
Tuesday, June 5, at NASA Langley's H.J.E. Reid Conference
Center.
Media Briefing: A media briefing will be held at 1:15
p.m. at the H.J.E. Reid Conference Center, 14 Langley Blvd., at
NASA Langley Research Center. Members of the media who wish to
attend should contact Kimberly W. Land (757) 864-9885.
D’Andrea, led the Cornell RoboCup team, a squad of five
fully autonomous soccer playing robots that captured the
international F180 RoboCup championship in 1999 (Sweden) and 2000
(Australia). At Cornell, D’Andrea teaches Systems Engineering
and Robot Soccer.
He will describe the technical problems associated with
coordinating a fleet of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles to
achieve a collective objective, their approaches for solving those
problems, and the other applications for the research. Also, video
footage from the competitions will be shown.
D’Andrea received his bachelor of science degree from the
University of Toronto in 1991 and his masters and doctorate degrees
in electrical engineering from the California Institute of
Technology in 1992 and 1997. He is also the recipient of a Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Centennial
Graduate Fellowship (1991-1996), among several best paper and
teaching awards.
The general public is invited to the Sigma Series lecture on the
same topic at the Virginia Air and Space Center at 7:30 p.m., that
evening.
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