El pr\u00f3ximo Martes, d\u00eda 10 de Noviembre, a las 17 horas,\u00a0se celebrar\u00e1 la conferencia\u00a0en el Sal\u00f3n de Grados de la ETSI, Camino de los Descubrimientos s\/n,\u00a0 que impartir\u00e1 la profesora Ayanna Howard del Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia, USA) con el t\u00edtulo:<\/p>\n
\u00abRobots and Climate Change: Using a Science Network of Mobility Operators that Explore in Snow (SnoMotes)\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n M\u00e1s abajo pueden leerse Resumen de Conferencia y Bio de Ayanna Howard.<\/p>\n Abstract From 1993-2005, Dr. Howard was at NASA’s Jet Propulsion\u00a0 Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where she led\u00a0 research efforts on various robotic projects utilizing vision, fuzzy\u00a0 logic, and neural network methodologies. Following this, she\u00a0 joined the Systems and Controls Group at Georgia Tech in 2005\u00a0 and founded the Human-Automation Systems (HumAnS) Laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El pr\u00f3ximo Martes, d\u00eda 10 de Noviembre, a las 17 horas,\u00a0se celebrar\u00e1 la conferencia\u00a0en el Sal\u00f3n de Grados de la ETSI, Camino de los Descubrimientos s\/n,\u00a0 que impartir\u00e1 la profesora Ayanna Howard del Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia, USA) con el t\u00edtulo: \u00abRobots and Climate Change: Using a Science Network of Mobility Operators that Explore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catedra.us.es\/catedratel2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catedra.us.es\/catedratel2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catedra.us.es\/catedratel2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catedra.us.es\/catedratel2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catedra.us.es\/catedratel2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/catedra.us.es\/catedratel2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/catedra.us.es\/catedratel2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catedra.us.es\/catedratel2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catedra.us.es\/catedratel2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catedra.us.es\/catedratel2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRecently, it has been discovered that the giant ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica have been shrinking at an accelerated rate. While it is believed that these regions hold important information related to global climate change, there is still insufficient data to be able to accurately predict the glacial behavior and the subsequent global ramiffications. Satellites have been able to map the ice sheet elevations with increasing accuracy, but data about general weather conditions (i.e. wind speed, barometric pressure, etc.) must be measured at the surface. In order to obtain a denser set of measurements, human expeditions could be sent to these remote and dangerous areas. Alternatively, a group of autonomous robotic rovers could be deployed to these same locations, mitigating the cost, effort, and danger of human presence. For this to be a viable solution though, methodologies must be developed for deployment of this surface-based mobile science network in these arctic environments. Speciffic technological achievements that must be achieved include designing a robust Arctic rover
\nplatform, methods for navigating arctic terrain, and developing schemes to deploy multiple robotic\u00a0 Scientific explorers to speciffic science sites of interest. In this talk, we discuss an infrastructure that
\naddresses these issues in order to enable successful deployment of these robotic scientiffic explorers.
\nBio: Dr. Ayanna Howard received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering\u00a0 from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern\u00a0 California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University\u00a0 of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1999. Her area of research is\u00a0 centered around the concept of humanized intelligence, the process of
\nembedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous\u00a0 systems. This work, which addresses issues of autonomous control\u00a0 as well as aspects of interaction with humans and the surrounding\u00a0 environment, has resulted in over 60 written works in a number of\u00a0 projects – from autonomous rover navigation for planetary surface\u00a0 exploration to intelligent terrain assessment algorithms for landing\u00a0 on Mars. To date, her unique accomplishments have been documented\u00a0 in over 12 featured articles – including being named as one of the\u00a0 world’s top young
\ninnovators of 2003 by the prestigious MIT\u00a0 Technology Review journal and in TIME magazine’s \u00abRise of the\u00a0 Machines\u00bb article in 2004.<\/p>\n