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Prof. Naira Govakimyan with Virginia Tech |
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Date: October 29, 2004
Time: 10:00am
Location: NASA LaRC, Bldg 1192C, Rm 102
Speaker: Prof. Naira Hovakimyan with Virginia Tech
Subject: “Overview of Research in Adaptive Control for UAVs at Virginia Tech”
This presentation will give an overview of adaptive control from the perspective of delivering an enabling technology for advancing the state of art for autonomous vehicles. Specific topics include adaptive control with visual sensors, reconfigurable control for aviation safety, need for developing theoretically verifiable adaptive control architectures, etc. Examples of autonomous aerial refueling, extremum seeking formation flight, aerial tracking task with visual sensors will be demonstrated. Special attention will be given to highlight the limitations of adaptive control. The presentation will also summarize the overall research perspectives of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory of Virginia Tech.
Dr. Havokimyan has extensive experience in advancing the state of the art in adaptive control theory and has been involved as part of a team conducting test flight of control laws that she helped design. She has contributed to a number of DARPA and AFSOR projects involving UAVs. The subject areas in which she has published include differential pursuit-evasion games, optimal control of robotic manipulators, robust control, adaptive estimation and control, neural networks. Current research interest include but are not limited to adaptation and learning in active vision control systems and adaptive control of distributed parameter systems.
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