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ABSTRACT This talk will describe two projects being carried out at Icosystem. The first part of the talk will describe a DARPA-sponsored project to develop decentralized control strategies for a team of robots carrying out a "building clearing" mission: enter an unknown building, explore it, map it, locate an item of interest, and set up a network for intrusion detection. The second part will summarize an AFRL-sponsored project to study control strategies for a swarm of Unmanned Air Vehicles performing collaborative missions. The talk will also provide a general overview of other research carried out at Icosystem. SPEAKER BIO As Vice President of Technology of Icosystem Corporation, Paolo Gaudiano contributes a combination of scientific and business experience. As a tenured faculty member at Boston University (1991-98), he specialized in the application of neural networks to the control of mobile robots, and in the study of biological and machine vision. He founded the Neurobotics Laboratory, where his group carried out research ranging from adaptive robot control to smart sensors, with successful technology transfers to the military and to industry. He then joined Artificial Life, Inc., a company that applied Natural Language Processing and Autonomous Agent Technology to a variety of Internet usage and navigation problems. In 2001 he joined Icosystem Corporation, where he applies his scientific and business skills to problems in complex systems, swarm intelligence and self-organization. He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics, an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems. Paolo Gaudiano Icosystem Corporation 10 Fawcett St. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA +1-617-520-1070 www.icosystem.com |
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