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  • Feb
    10

    ME512 Seminar Speaker- Naomi Leonard

    McCormick - Mechanical Engineering (ME)

    3:00 PM L211, Technological Institute

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    Title:

    Spiking Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (S-NOD) for Agile Decision-Making and Control

    Speaker:

    Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University

    Abstract:

    I will introduce Spiking Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (S-NOD), which enables decision-making and control with superior agility in responding to and adapting to fast and unpredictable changes in context, environment, or information received about available options. S-NOD derives through the introduction of an extra term to the previously presented Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (NOD), which have been shown to provide fast and flexible multiagent behavior. The term is inspired by the fast-positive, slow-negative mixed-feedback structure of excitable systems. The agile behaviors brought about by the new excitable nature of decision-making driven by S-NOD are analyzed in a general setting and illustrated in applications to robot navigation around human movers and to control of soft robotics.

    Bio:

    Naomi Ehrich Leonard is Chair and Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, associated faculty with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and the Biophysics Graduate Program, and affiliated faculty with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. She is Founding Director of creativeX, a Princeton engineering-and-the-arts collective, and Founding Editor of Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems. Leonard received her B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. She is a MacArthur Fellow, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the ASME, IEEE, IFAC, and SIAM, and recipient of the 2023 IEEE Control Systems Award and 2024 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. Her current research focuses on dynamics, control, and learning for multiagent systems on networks with application to multi-robot teams, collective animal behavior, and other networked systems in technology, nature, and the arts.

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    TIME Monday, February 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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  • Mar
    10

    ME512 Seminar Speaker- Somnath Ghosh

    McCormick - Mechanical Engineering (ME)

    3:00 PM L211, Technological Institute

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    TIME Monday, March 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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  • Mar
    15

    Winter Classes End

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    TIME Saturday, March 15, 2025

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  • Mar
    17

    Winter exams begin

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    TIME Monday, March 17, 2025

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  • Mar
    22

    Spring Break Begins

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    TIME Saturday, March 22, 2025

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  • Mar
    31

    Spring Break Ends

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    TIME Monday, March 31, 2025

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  • Apr
    1

    Spring Classes Begin - Northwestern Monday: Classes scheduled to meet on Mondays meet on this day.

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    TIME Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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  • Jun
    15

    2024-2025 Commencement Ceremony

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    TIME Sunday, June 15, 2025

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