From: "Heather L. Evans" Subject: EE Department Seminar - Amanda Prorok - May 10th Date: May 3, 2016 at 9:22:00 AM EDT To: ee-seminar@Princeton.EDU Reply-To: "Heather L. Evans"

Speaker: Amanda Prorok, University of Pennsylvania Title: Diversity and Heterogeneity in Multi-Robot Systems Day: Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Time: 4:30on Room: B205, E-Quad Host: Prof. Peter Ramadge

Abstract: Nature demonstrates the benefits of biological diversity with ecosystems that are resilient, adaptable, and productive over long time-spans. In robotics research, we are interested in a principled study of diversity with the aim of building on nature's inventions. In this talk, I shed light on the effects and implications of diversity and heterogeneity in multi-robot systems. I begin by displaying empirical results that stem from a collaborative positioning problem. As the need for foundational approaches becomes evident, my focus shifts to the question of how to formalize diversity. I answer this question in the context of heterogeneous robot swarms, with insights that pertain to the particular aspects of performance and security.

Bio: Amanda Prorok is currently a Postdoc in the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, where she works with Prof. Vijay Kumar on heterogeneous robot swarms. She completed her PhD at EPFL, Switzerland, where she addressed the topic of localization with ultra-wideband sensing for large-scale, collaborative systems. Her dissertation was awarded the Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) award for the best thesis at EPFL in the fields of Computer Sciences, Automatics and Telecommunications. She was selected as an MIT Rising Star in 2015, and won a Best Paper Award at BICT 2015.

Heather Evans Assistant to the Chair Department of Electrical Engineering Princeton University Engineering Quadrangle, B-210 Olden Street Princeton, NJ 08544 (p): 609-258-7282 (f): 609-258-0119 heathere@princeton.edu mailto:heathere@princeton.edu