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Dr. Rafael Fierro receives a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
“The
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide
activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious
awards for new faculty members. The CAREER program recognizes and supports
the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are
most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.” The National Science Foundation
Dr. Rafael Fierro, an
Assistant Professor of ECEN, received a Faculty Early Career Development
(CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Fierro and his students will
work on coordination of dynamic networks under this award from the NSF. A dynamic network consists of
spatially distributed dynamic nodes (e.g., autonomous vehicles,
mobile sensors) which are coordinated by common set of goals and possible
dynamic interaction between the nodes. There are many applications where a
dynamic network may be more suitable than a single vehicle, especially where
a distributed system of sensors is advantageous. New developments in complex networks of interacting systems like teams of autonomous vehicles/robots for homeland security, search and rescue and disaster relief operations, multi-targeting/multi-platform battlefield groups, unmanned air vehicle systems, intelligent highway/vehicle systems, wireless surveillance networks, and elsewhere place severe demands on the design of cooperative control schemes and communication strategies in the presence of changing environment. This project will develop methodologies to facilitate the design of this class of systems. Also, these methodologies will be verified and evaluated on a multi-vehicle experimental testbed available at the MARHES Lab.
The Multi-Vehicle Experimental Testbed
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