Title:  Closed Loop Perception for Resource Efficient Autonomous Systems

Committee:

Dr. Saibal Mukhopadhyay, ECE, Chair, Advisor

Dr. Marilyn Wolf, ECE

Dr. Tushar Krishna, ECE

Dr. Shimeng Yu, ECE

Dr. Hyesoon Kim, CoC

Abstract: Autonomous Systems such as Autonomous Vehicles (AV), robots and drones are being developed for large scale deployments in real world applications such as transportation, agriculture, defense, urban planning etc. To operate safely in such diverse and dynamic scenarios, these systems must be aware of their own limitations and react accordingly. Closed-Loop Perception combines ideas from computer vision and control theory to create a perception system that can introspect and adapt to the real-time requirements of an Autonomous System operating in the wild.