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 ics-engineering-colloquium-speaking-series-professor-matthew-hale
Robotics Engineering Colloquium Speaking Series: Professor Matthew Hale
Localization over the Dual Quaternions\n\n\n\n      \n      \n\n\n\nAbstract:
  Demands placed on autonomous systems are growing. Delivery robots, self-d
 riving cars, automated warehouses, and more are all expected to execute th
 eir functions quickly and safely. In these and other applications, robots'
  performance depends in part on precise knowledge of where they are. In ot
 her words, robots must quickly and accurately solve various localization p
 roblems to execute their other tasks. In this talk, I will cover my group'
 s recent developments in enabling improved localization for autonomous mob
 ile robots. This talk formulates localization problems over the manifold o
 f unit dual quaternions, which enables the development of richer, more acc
 urate models of uncertainty than in prior work. Then it develops a manifol
 d optimization algorithm that allows for optimal localization over the uni
 t dual quaternions. This algorithm is provably convergent, and simulations
  on standard benchmarks show a substantial improvement in accuracy over th
 e state of the art.\nBiography:Matthew Hale is an Associate Professor of E
 lectrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research is broadl
 y on new approaches to autonomy, with an emphasis on modeling how informat
 ion is computed and shared in multi-agent systems. Recent research interes
 ts have included localization problems in robotics, privacy and deception 
 in control, and compositional models of multi-agent coordination. He has r
 eceived the NSF CAREER, ONR YIP, and AFOSR YIP awards.\n
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