报告题目：Robotic Search of Transient Targets

　　报告时间： 7月17日（星期一）上午10:00

　　报告地点：民主楼二楼会议室

　　报告摘要：

　　Searching for objects in physical space has been one of the most important tasks for mobile robots. Transient targets refer to intermittent signal emitting objects such as cellphone users, airplane black boxes, and unknown sensor networks. Searching for such targets is difficult because targets are found only if both signal emission and sensing range conditions are simultaneously satisfied. This problem is inherently stochastic which makes the traditional coverage-based searching techniques less effective. Considering a large searching region, sparse target distribution, the expected searching time, multi-target signal correspondence, variable signal transmission power, and the efficient coordination of multiple robots, we report a series of algorithms developed over last decade that handle the cases from single-target-single-robot to decentralized multi-target-multi-robot with different sensing and communication constraints and explicit performance analyses. Extensive simulation and physical experiment results are also included in the talk.

　　报告人简介：  宋德臻博士目前是德州A&M大学计算机系的终生教授。宋德臻于2004年在加州大学伯克利分校的运筹学系获得博士学位，主攻机器人方向。他的硕士学位是工业自动化，学士学位是过程控制, 都是毕业于浙江大学。宋博士的研究方向是机器人感知技术，网络机器人，计算视觉，以及概率模型。宋博士是国际电机电气工程师联合会（IEEE）的机器人与自动化分会（RAS）下网络机器人技术委员会的创始人和副主席（2007-2009）。宋博士发表了一本专著，九个章节，八十多篇期刊和会议论文。他曾获得国际机器人和自动化大会（ICRA） 的最佳自动化论文奖（和J. Yi， S. Ding一起）。宋博士在2007年获得美国国家自然科学基金会的青年科学家(CAREER)奖。宋博士曾担任多个机器人权威期刊的副编辑，包括IEEE Transactions on Robotics, (2008-2012), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (2010-2014)， 和IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2015-)。宋博士还是国际最权威最畅销的机器人学手册（Springer Handbook of Robotics）的章节作者和多媒体编辑。