AEM Seminar: Data-Driven Observer-based Feedback Control of Unmanned Aerospace Systems
Professor Derek Paley, Willis H. Young Jr. Professor of Aerospace Education, Aerospace Engineering, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
2:30 PM on 2019-03-08
3-230 Keller Hall
Abstract:
This talk will describe a data-driven framework for estimation and control by autonomous unmanned aerospace systems using a principled approach to dynamic output feedback with theoretical justification. The specific research objective is to apply tools from nonlinear control, engineering and fluid dynamics, estimation theory, and uncertainty quantification to solve the problem of adaptive sampling of continuous and discrete processes with autonomous flight vehicles using observer-based feedback. Topics to include (1) nonlinear systems analysis of the stability and optimality properties of uncertain, output-feedback control systems using dynamic, non-Gaussian observers; and (2) estimate and control for aerospace flight vehicles using spatially distributed sampling in applications motivated by Air Force missions including lift maximization at high angles of attack.
Bio:
Derek A. Paley is the Willis H. Young Jr. Professor of Aerospace Engineering Education in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. He is the founding director of the Collective Dynamics and Control Laboratory and the UMD Autonomous Micro Air Vehicle Team. Paley received the B.S. degree in Applied Physics from Yale University in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 2007. He is the recipient of the Yale University Henry Prentiss Becton Prize for Excellence in Engineering and Applied Science in 1997, the Princeton University Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship in 2006, the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2010, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2012, the University of Maryland E. Robert Kent Teaching Award for Junior Faculty in 2014, and the AIAA National Capital Section Engineer of the Year in 2015. His research interests are in the area of dynamics and control, including cooperative control of autonomous vehicles, adaptive sampling with mobile networks, and spatial modeling of biological groups.