{"id":41252,"date":"2024-07-24T05:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?page_id=41252"},"modified":"2025-01-05T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T16:22:09","slug":"cise-hariri-distinguished-seminar-naomi-leonard-princeton-university","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/cise-hariri-distinguished-seminar-naomi-leonard-princeton-university\/","title":{"rendered":"CISE\/Hariri Institute Distinguished Seminar: Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date: January 31st, 2025
\nTime: 3:00pm \u2013 4:00pm
\nLocation: 665 Commonwealth Ave., CDS 1750\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor Naomi Leonard, Princeton University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Naomi Ehrich <\/span>Leonard<\/b><\/span>
\nProfessor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nPrinceton University<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Spiking<\/span> Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (<\/span>S<\/span>-NOD) for Agile Decision-Making and Control<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Leonard will introduce<\/span> <\/span>Spiking<\/span> Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics<\/span> <\/span>(<\/span>S<\/span>-NOD), which <\/span>enable<\/span>s<\/span> decision<\/span>–<\/span>making<\/span> and control<\/span> <\/span>with superior agility in responding<\/span> to<\/span> and<\/span> <\/span>adapting to fast and<\/span> <\/span>unpredictable changes in context, environment,<\/span> <\/span>or information received about available options. <\/span>S-<\/span>NOD<\/span> <\/span>derives through the introduction of a<\/span>n <\/span>extra term to<\/span> <\/span>the previously presented Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (NOD),<\/span> <\/span>which <\/span>have<\/span> been shown to provide fast and flexible multiagent<\/span> <\/span>behavior. The term is inspired by the fast-positive, slow<\/span>–<\/span>negative<\/span> <\/span>mixed-feedback structure of excitable systems. The<\/span> <\/span>agile behaviors brought about by the new excitable nature of<\/span> <\/span>decision-making driven by <\/span>S<\/span>-NOD are analyzed in a general<\/span> <\/span>setting and illustrated in application<\/span>s<\/span> t<\/span>o<\/span> robot navigation<\/span> <\/span>around human movers<\/span> and to control of soft robotics.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Naomi Ehrich Leonard<\/strong> is Chair and Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She is associated faculty with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and the Biophysics Graduate Program, and affiliated faculty with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. She is Founding Director of CreativeX, a Princeton engineering-and-the-arts collective, and Founding Editor of Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems. Leonard received her B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the ASME, IEEE, IFAC, and SIAM. Recent awards include the 2023 IEEE Control Systems Award and the 2024 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. Her current research focuses on dynamics, control, and learning for multiagent systems on networks with application to multi-robot teams, collective animal behavior, and other networked systems in nature, technology, and the arts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Faculty Host:<\/strong> Yannis Paschalidis
\nStudent Host: <\/strong>Beste Oztop<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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