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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Friday, September 5, 11:30 am
Cullimore Lecture Hall II
New
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Mobile Sensor Networks: Cooperative Sensing and Control
Naomi Leonard
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Abstract
Coordinated motion control of multi-agent systems makes possible the design of
mobile sensor networks to follow and sample features and to provide efficient
sampling coverage of regions in the environment (sea, land, air, space) with
time-varying, spatially distributed fields. In this talk I will describe
collaborative work on models for coordinated motion of multi-agent systems
based on moving particles with steering control driven by an extension of
coupled oscillator dynamics. The methodology provides means for systematic
design of simply parameterized families of stable collective motion patterns
that can be optimized for sampling. I will describe application to design of an
adaptive ocean sampling network and present results from field experiments in