April Dinner Meeting
  Date: Tuesday, April 24th
Location: Garden Plaza Hotel, Oak Ridge
Time: Social at 6:00, Dinner at 6:45, and Speaker at 7:30
Cost: $15.00 per person and $7.50 for students
Program Title: "Cooperation and Learning in Multi-Robot Systems "
Speaker: Dr. Lynne E. Parker
Computational Intelligence Group, Computer Science and Mathematics Div.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dinner Menu: Fresh Tossed Garden Salad with Honey Dijon or Ranch Dressings
Portabella Meatloaf
Green Bean Almadine
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Assorted Dinner Rolls with Butter
ChefŐs Choice of Dessert
Coffee and Iced Tea
Please RSVP to Julie G. Ezold by noon Monday, April 23.
e-mail ezoldjg@y12.doe.gov
Work 574-3307
Program Description
Dr. Parker will discuss her research in the development of distributed control approaches to multi-robot cooperation. Developing operational multi-robot teams involves research on a number of topics, including fault tolerant cooperative control, adaptive action selection, distributed control, robot awareness of team member actions, improving efficiency through learning, inter-robot communication, action recognition, local versus global control, and metrics for measuring success. The discussion will include several of these issues of cooperation and learning in the context of a distributed software architecture that she has developed, called ALLIANCE, that facilitates robust, fault tolerant cooperative control in multi-robot teams. There will also be video clips of the implementation of these approaches on multi-robot teams.
ANS- American Nuclear Society- Oak Ridge / Knoxville Section
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