Technical Forum on the potential collaborative work with Boeing and

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Technical Forum on the potential collaborative
work with Boeing and Seminar titled
Computational Intelligence and Robotic Swarm
Management
10 April 2008 on Thursday, 9am to 11am at LT 13,
NTU
PROGRAMME 8.45am REGISTRATION
9.00am PRESENTATION ON BOEING / COLLABORATIVE
PROJECTS and TECHNICAL FORUM by DR. JOHN VIAN
(Boeing Phantom Works, Seattle, WA 98124, USA)
9.45am COFFEE BREAK NETWORKING 10.15am TECHNIC
AL PRESENTATION on COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
ROBOTIC SWARM MANAGEMENT by MR RYAN MEUTH
(PhD Student, Applied Computational Intelligence
Laboratory, Missouri University of Science and
Technology, USA.)
11.00am END
The technical forum is for academic staff who is
interested in potential collaborative work with
Boeing. Dr. Vian will do a presentation to
share some areas of work that Boeing Phantom
Works is involved in.
Short Biography of Dr John Vian Dr John Vian
is a Boeing Technical Fellow with 25 years
experience in flight control and prognostic
health management. He has served as Principal
Investigator on multiple contracted research
programs and currently leads Phantom Works
Systems Health Management Strategic Technology
Area. Dr Vian holds PhD Electrical, MS
Aeronautical, and BS Mechanical Engineering
degree. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and
serves on the Accreditation Board for Engineering
and Technology.
Synopsis for seminar titled, Computational
Intelligence Robotic Swarm Management Robotic
swarm management is a complex problem that is
concerned with the command and control of
semi-autonomous agents under a task
specification. This talk presents a series of
methods and results for the real-time control and
adaptation of a heterogeneous robotic swarm
executing an area coverage task in a variable,
occluded environment. Presented methods include
unsupervised clustering, hybrid genetic
algorithms for TSP solution, and computational
methods for task allocation.
VENUE Lecture 13, at Block NS2, Level 4-11, NTU
Short Biography of Mr Ryan Meuth Ryan Meuth is
on Visiting Research Attachment sponsored by the
National Science Foundation, USA. He received
his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer
Engineering from the University of Missouri
Rolla in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He is
currently a Computer Engineering PhD student at
Missouri University of Science and Technology
(formerly the University of Missouri Rolla). He
works as a research assistant in the Applied
Computational Intelligence Laboratory,
contributing to research projects on optimizing
the behavior of robot swarms, large scale
optimization problems such as computer Go, and
high performance computing methods utilizing
video game consoles and graphics processing
units. His research interests include robotics,
computational intelligence, machine learning, and
cognitive science. Ryan is also heavily involved
in the university Robotics Competition Team,
where he manages the development and interfacing
of sensors for the teams robotic entries into
the annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition.
This event is organised by the Intelligent
Systems Centre of NTU.