Professor M. Ani Hsieh, University of Pennsylvania
Will present a talk entitled:
“Knowledge Based Learning of Complex Spatiotemporal Dynamics: A Robotics Perspective”
Abstract: Robots and autonomous systems give us unprecedented access to landscapes and habitats both big and small. They provide in-situ monitoring of the environments they are immersed in and adapt their strategies to respond to various external stimuli. These systems enable us to more richly and extensively interact with the world we live in, better our understanding of the complexities of the world, and assist in the discovery of new processes and phenomena. Nevertheless, the ability to robustly operate in natural unstructured environments often requires robots to have or acquire a model or estimate the environment, often with limited sensing and communication resources. In this talk, I will present some of our recent efforts in developing knowledge embedded machine learning strategies for modeling and predicting complex spatiotemporal phenomena. I will motivate our approach from the perspective of adaptive sampling by distributed teams of robots. While the strategies were originally targeted towards applications in ocean sciences, I will discuss how the ideas can be extended to more general dynamical systems and natural and artificial swarms.
Bio: M. Ani Hsieh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the Deputy Director of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory. Her research interests lie at the intersection of robotics, multi-agent systems, and dynamical systems theory. Hsieh and her team design algorithms for estimation, control, and planning for multi-agent robotic systems with applications in environmental monitoring, estimation and prediction of complex dynamics, and design of collective behaviors. She received her B.S. in Engineering and B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College and her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Penn, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Drexel University. Hsieh is the recipient of a 2012 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award and a 2013 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
Snell 118
Friday Sept 10, 2021
12:00 pm
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