报告题目：Guaranteeing Safety in Real-world Control Systems: from Robots to Automated Vehicles

报告人：  Dr.Tamas Molnar（Wichita State University）

报告时间：2024年5月27日（周一）15:00-19:00

报告地点：明故宫A18-529报告厅

主办单位：航空航天结构力学及控制全国重点实验室、航空学院、国际合作处

报告内容：

The deployment of autonomous systems – such as robotic systems or automated vehicles – requires that they are controlled to operate safely, preferably with guarantees or certificates of safe behavior. The goal of this talk is to use nonlinear control techniques to achieve provably safe behavior on real-world control systems like robotic systems and automated vehicles. I establish a control framework that endows these systems with formal safety guarantees by using simplified dynamical models and control barrier function theory. I address robustness to the discrepancies between the systems and their models, including disturbances and time delays. I demonstrate the applicability of this method through executing collision avoidance tasks on a wide variety of systems, including legged, wheeled, and flying robots, as well as a heavy-duty truck.

报告人简介：

Tamas Molnar is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Wichita State University since 2023 fall. Beforehand, he held postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology (2020-2023) and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2018-2020). He received his PhD (2018) and MSc (2015) in Mechanical Engineering and his BSc (2013) in Mechatronics Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics and control, safety-critical control, and time delay systems with applications to connected automated vehicles, robotic systems, and autonomous systems.