CISE Seminar: Marco Pavone, Stanford University

Friday: Dec. 4th, 2020
3:00pm – 4:30pm
https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/9465617524
Meeting ID: 946 561 7524

Marco Pavone
Stanford University 

On the Role of Interaction in Future Mobility Systems, from Vehicle-Centric to System-Wide Control

In this talk I will discuss my work on autonomous vehicles, with an emphasis on accounting for interactions with external counterparts at both the vehicle- and system-levels. Specifically, I will first discuss a decision-making framework that enables an autonomous vehicle to proactively interact with human agents (e.g., pedestrians and human drivers) to infer their intents and to use such information to produce safe and efficient driving behaviors. I will then turn the discussion to the planning and operational aspects of using autonomous vehicles in future mobility systems, specifically in the context of autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) systems. The emphasis will be on how to characterize and harness the interaction between AMoD and other infrastructures, such as the electric power and public transit networks.

Dr. Marco Pavone is an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he is the Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory and Co-Director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford. Before joining Stanford, he was a Research Technologist within the Robotics Section at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. His main research interests are in the development of methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of autonomous systems, with an emphasis on self-driving cars, autonomous aerospace vehicles, and future mobility systems. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, a National Science Foundation Early Career (CAREER) Award, a NASA Early Career Faculty Award, and an Early-Career Spotlight Award from the Robotics Science and Systems Foundation. He was identified by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) as one of America’s 20 most highly promising investigators under the age of 40. His work has been recognized with best paper nominations or awards at the European Control Conference, at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, at the Field and Service Robotics Conference, at the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, at the ROBOCOMM Conference, and at NASA symposia. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine.

Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras
Student Host: Erfan Aasi