Dan Sorin NECSULESCU
Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
Research interests:
mechatronics, robotics, formations of autonomous vehicles, inverse problems in monitoring and control
Keynote address:
Integration of Autonomous Mobile Robots Motion Control with Multi Sensor Fusion
Abstract:
Autonomous mobile robot motion control requires digital maps of the environment updated with sensor information regarding unexpected, new obstacles in order to avoid collisions. In most cases sensors are based on a variety of physical signals: ultrasonic, radar, inertial sensors, temperature, light etc. In order to provide robot controller with a simple command to avoid obstacles, sensors signals have to undergo sensor fusion using a variety of methods: Kalman filters, Damster Shafer, Voting logic etc. The purpose is to estimate an original variables from sensors outputs, a process that represent an inverse problem, often ill-posed. A particular issue, to be presented in this keynote address, is the integration of resulting reduced frequency domain of sensing with the bandwidth of the robot controller and the frequency domain of the desired commands.
Dan Sorin NECSULESCU born in 1943, received his Dipl.-Ing.-degree in 1967 and his Dr.Eng.-degree in 1973 goth from Politehnica University of Bucharest, and is Licentiate in Philosophy from University of Bucharest (Romania) in 1974. Between 1968 and 1979 he was with the Institute of Development and Design of Power Systems, Bucharest as Design and Research Engineer. 1980 he was with Ontario Hydro as Nuclear Safety Engineer. Since 1980 he is with University of Ottawa, Department of Mechanical Engineering as Professor. Between 1990 and 1993 he was the Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department and since 1996 he is the Director of the Engineering Management Program. He published three books, D. Necsulescu, Advanced Mechatronics, World Scientific, 2009, D. Necsulescu, Mechatronics, Prentice Hall, 2002 and R. Baican, D. Necsulescu, Applied Virtual Instrumentation, WIT Press, 2000. His current special research fields are: Formations of Autonomous Vehicles, Self-Organizing Engineered Systems and Remote Monitoring using Infrared Imaging.
