演讲人 Speaker： 赵世钰 （西湖大学教授）

题目 Title:  Vision-based multi-robot swarming: from biology to engineering

时间 Date：2021-09-03      Time： 14:00-15:00

地点 Venue：腾讯会议   ID:  178 568 338

主持人：张宏伟 教授

内容摘要 Abstract： 

The study of multi-robot swarming systems was initially motivated by the amazing collective behaviors of animal groups in nature such as flocking of birds and schooling of fish. It is notable that many animal groups use vision as a primary sensing approach to achieve collective behaviors. Study on vision-based swarming is essential to achieve large-scale, truly distributed, and truly intelligent swarming systems. Although multi-robot systems have been studied in different aspects by different communities such as robotics and controls for 20 years, vision-based multi-robot swarming remains an area that has not been well explored in either theory or application. In this talk, I will review some key challenges in this area and present some of my research results on bearing-only formation control, visual detection of micro aerial vehicles, and so on. Hopefully this talk could provide a relatively complete picture of this area and some inspiring ideas to interested researchers.

个人简介 (About the speaker):

Shiyu Zhao is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Intelligent Unmanned Systems Laboratory in the School of Engineering at Westlake University. He received the BEng and MEng degrees from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore. After his PhD study, he worked as post-doctoral researchers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and University of California at Riverside, respectively, for one year, and then became a Lecturer and PhD supervisor in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has joined Westlake University since the spring of 2019.

Dr Zhao has extensive theoretical and practical research experience on automatic control and unmanned aerial systems. He has published more than 50 research articles. He serves as associate editors for many conferences including IEEE IROS, CDC, ACC, ICCA, and ICUAS, etc. He was a Regional Chair of IEEE ICCA 2018 and a Program Chair of IEEE ICCA 2019. He is an associate editor for the international journal, Unmanned Systems. He is a corecipient of the Best Paper Award (Guan Zhao-Zhi Award) in the 33rd Chinese Control Conference, Nanjing, China, in 2014. He has been awarded the 1,000 Talents Plan of China (Youth Program) since 2021.