Control of Autonomous Cyber‐Physical Systems
Dr. Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate at Washington University in St. Louis.
Abstract
Intelligent and fully autonomous cyber‐physical systems will impact future. Many key challenges, however, remain unsolved prevenƟng society from deploying such systems widely. This talk will answer a subset of key research questions so as to shed light on the broader problem space for the control of autonomous cyber‐physical systems and provide useful insights for future work.
Underlying this talk is a safety‐critical hierarchical control structure, where a low‐level controller provides safety and resilience to the system, and the high‐level controller is responsible for planning and decision making. Key challenges in designing the low‐level and high‐level controllers will be discussed. The application of the ideas will be demonstrated on a wide variety of systems, including: robots, energy systems, drug delivery systems, unmanned vehicles, and self‐driving cars. Looking to the future, this talk will briefly describe some early‐stage interdisciplinary collaborative research projects.
Biography
Dr. Mehdi Hosseinzadeh is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Washington University in St. Louis. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Tehran, in 2016. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. From November 2018 to December 2018, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on safety, resilience, and long‐term autonomy of cyber‐physical systems.