CISE Seminar: October 24, 2018, Luca Schenato, University of Padova

8 St. Mary’s Street, PHO 339
4:00pm-5:00pm

Luca Schenato
University of Padova, Italy

Multi-Agent Map-Building: Kalman Filtering Meets Gaussian Processes

The proliferation of large scale smart multi-agent systems, also known as Internet-of-Things, Networked Control Systems, Wireless sensor and actuator networks, Cyber-physical Systems, etc., are providing us with a wealth of data with unprecedented time-space resolution which can trigger the next technological revolution. However, this trend is also posing a formidable challenge, often referred as Data Tsunami, which requires the analysis of a large-scale correlated time-series. In this talk, the problem of estimating a map will be addressed, first in a static scenario and later in a dynamic scenario, based on noisy measurements collected by a large number of sensors in the presence of unreliable communication. In particular, he will explore the pros and cons of parametric and non-parametric estimation approaches and will propose some strategies that aim to merge ideas from control theory such as Gauss-Markov estimators and Kalman Filtering, and from Machine Learning such as Gaussian regression, Karhunen-Lovève kernel expansions, and Nystrom method.

Luca Schenato received the Dr. Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Padova in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the UC Berkeley, in 2003. He held a post-doctoral position in 2004 and a Visiting Professor position in 2013-2014 at U.C. Berkeley. Currently he is Associate Professor at the Information Engineering Department at the University of Padova. His interests include networked control systems, multi-agent systems, cyber physical systems, smart grids, and cooperative robotics. He is the author of over hundred peer-reviewed articles. Luca Schenato has been awarded the 2004 Reverse-brain drain Professorship (“Rientro dei Cervelli”) by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), the 2004 EU Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, the 2006 Eli Jury Award in U.C. Berkeley, and the EUCA European Control Award in 2014. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control (2010 to 2014) and IEEEE Trans. on Control of Network Systems (2016 to current) and he is an IEEE Fellow since 2017.

Faculty Host: Ioannis Paschalidis
Student Host: Rebecca Swaszek