Special Robotics Seminar: Qiang Shen, "Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems"

Friday, September 6, 2019
2:00 p.m.
3137 Iribe Center
Ania Picard
301 405 4358
appicard@umd.edu

Special Robotics Seminar

Intention Estimation and Reliable Control for Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems

Qiang Shen
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Arizona State University  

Abstract
As autonomous systems become increasingly complex, integrated and interconnected, two main challenges are inevitable: (1) interacting with other autonomous systems, people and robots that share the same environment under partial knowledge of each other’s internal state such as intention and mode of operation, (2) an increased risk of unforeseen system/component faults and intentional attacks. In this talk, the speaker will introduce his recent results on decision/intention estimation methods and reliable control frameworks for safety-critical autonomous systems with the goal of improving autonomous system’s performance, reliability and resilience. Meanwhile, these developments are applied to autonomous driving vehicles and scientific and engineering fields in which rigid-body dynamics are used, such as drone, spacecraft and robot manipulator. For example, the developed methods could potentially improve the autonomy and reduce the conservativeness of the current driver assistance systems in self-driving vehicles by identifying the other drivers’ level of cooperativeness or intent and enable autonomous aerospace vehicles to continue the performance of aggressive maneuver after component failures in complex and constrained environments.

Host
Derek Paley

Biography
Dr. Qiang Shen is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). Before coming to ASU, he was a research scientist in Temasek Laboratory at National University of Singapore (NUS) from 2015 to 2017. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) in 2016, and received his Bachelor’s degree in Automation from Northwestern Polytechnical University (China) in 2010. His research interests are in the area of planning, control, and optimization of safety-critical autonomous systems such as autonomous driving vehicles, quadrotors, spacecraft and robot manipulator. His work has led to over 30 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications. He is the receipt of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad in 2016.

 

 

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