TITLE:

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN OBSERVATION OF CESAR CHAVEZ (STATE HOLIDAY). (No. 115)

DATE:

Friday, March 31st, 2006

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 214

SPEAKER:

Mahmoud Tarokh, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University

ABSTRACT:

Intelligent Robotic Systems using Biologically Inspired Techniques

In this talk I will give an overview of the research projects being conducted at the Intelligent Machines and Systems (IMS) Lab of the Computer Science Department. The focus of the research in this lab is on intelligent robotic systems with emphasis on mobile robots operating in rough and unstructured environments. The projects fall into five areas of robotic person following, rover navigation, robot path planning, inverse kinematics and robotic agents. I will briefly review the current projects in each of these areas and then give a more detailed description of one of the projects. I will show how many techniques we use to solve highly complex problems in robotics are inspired from biological systems, i.e. techniques such as genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, and neural networks. The concepts will be illustrated with a short video and an animation developed at the IMS Lab.

HOST:

Faramarz Valafar

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