{"516061":{"#nid":"516061","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Ph.D. Proposal Oral Exam - Matthew Hale","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. Proposal Oral Exam - Matthew Hale\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EECE Proposal Oral Exam\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMixed Centralized\/Decentralized Multi-agent Decision Protocols\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Egerstedt, Dr. Wardi, Advisor\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ames, Chair\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Shamma\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract: \u003C\/strong\u003EThe objective of the proposed research is to develop optimization algorithms for multi-agent systems that use a mixture of centralized and decentralized elements. We propose three directions in particular. The first consists of examining how a system of agents with a central aggregator can asynchronously perform constrained optimization. The second consists of having the aggregator add noise to keep some information in the system private and analyzing the convergence of the constrained optimization algorithm with noise. Third, we propose to apply this work on a team of robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhD Proposal, graduate students\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Proposal Oral Exam"}],"uid":"28475","created_gmt":"2016-03-21 16:14:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:17:06","author":"Daniela Staiculescu","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-04-20T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-04-20T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-04-20T11:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-04-20 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-04-20 15:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-04-20 15:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"434371","name":"ECE Ph.D. Proposal Oral Exams"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"102851","name":"Phd proposal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}