{"583300":{"#nid":"583300","#data":{"type":"event","title":"SCS Lecture Series: Fumin Zhang, \u201cBio-Inspired Autonomy for Mobile Sensor Networks\u201d","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is an increasing trend for robots to serve as network mobile sensing platforms that can collect data and interact with humans in various types of environment. This need for undisturbed operation posts higher goals for autonomy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis talk reviews recent developments in autonomous collective foraging in a complex environment that can explicitly integrates insights from biology with models and provable strategies from control theory and robotics. These methods were rigorously developed and tightly integrated with an experimental effort that achieved promising results.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Fumin Zhang is an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe received his Ph.D. from the University of\u0026nbsp;Maryland, College Park in Electrical Engineering in 2004. From 2004 to 2007, he held a postdoctoral position at Princeton University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests include mobile sensor networks, maritime\u0026nbsp;robotics, control systems, and theoretical foundations for cyber-physical systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe received a NSF CAREER Award in September 2009, the Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award\u0026nbsp;in March 2010, the ONR Young Investigator Program Award in April 2010, and the GT Roger P. Webb Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in April 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe is currently serving as the co-chair\u0026nbsp;for the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Marine Robotics and the chair for the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Robotic Control and Manufacturing Automation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCS Lecture from Fumin Zhang, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"uid":"30267","created_gmt":"2016-10-31 13:40:56","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:14:08","author":"Devin Young","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-11-04T15:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-11-04T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-11-04T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-11-04 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-11-04 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-11-04 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55555":{"id":"55555","type":"image","title":"Fumin Zhang","body":null,"created":"1449175533","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:33","changed":"1475894491","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:31","alt":"Fumin Zhang","file":{"fid":"190313","name":"Fumin_Zhang.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Fumin_Zhang_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Fumin_Zhang_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2253403,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Fumin_Zhang_1.jpg?itok=t4A8qaqi"}}},"media_ids":["55555"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166940","name":"SCS"},{"id":"1051","name":"Computer Science"},{"id":"166941","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"2437","name":"lecture"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKenya Payton\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESr. Administrator Assistant to the SCS Chair\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kenya.payton@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekenya.payton@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}