ICON Seminar in Autonomy: Professor. Masayoshi Tomizuka (UC Berkeley)

ICON Distinguished Seminar (collocated with Purdue Engineering Frontier Lectures) 

ARMS Atrium (Nov 10th Friday from 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)

 From State Space Control to Intelligent Machines: A Five-Decade Journey in Mechanical Systems Control

Abstract:

I joined the Mechanical Engineering Department of UC Berkeley in 1974 after obtaining a PhD from MIT in the same year.  It was an exciting time for someone in the field of dynamic systems and control.  The 1960’s – 1970’s was the period when the state space control theories blossomed such as maximum principle, dynamic programming, Lyapunov stability, Kalman filtering, Linear Quadratic Gaussian Control and stability based adaptive control theory. At the same time, computer/information technology has made phenomenal advances during the period. When I was a student I used IBM1130 (with a card reader and printer) for working on HWs and research and a PDP-8 mini-computer for my dissertation research. When I joined UC Berkeley, the campus mainframe computer was a CDC (Control Data Corporation) 6000 series computer, and the lab computer was PDP-7, which was upgraded to PDP-11, LSI-11, etc. (Dave Auslander must be given a lot of credit for introducing mini- and micro-computers to our control courses and research.)  The control program at Berkeley covered from both theory to implementation, and it was followed by many other schools. It should also be noted that 1970’s was the time when a new generation of mechanical systems showed up; IBM introduced the Winchester Hard Disk Drive in 1973 and the FANUC Corporation was established in 1972.  My laboratory, Mechanical Systems Control (MSC) Laboratory, naturally evolved to a group to study both mathematical and implementation aspects of controls. The current research emphasis of the MSC Laboratory is on intelligent industrial robots and autonomous driving. In this talk, I will introduce representative projects with motivation, approach and accomplishments.

Speaker:

Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka (Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley) 

Recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD5tmtxxPCc&ab_channel=PurdueEngineering

Organizers: Ziran Wang (ziran@purdue.edu), Nak-seung Patrick Hyun (nhyun@purdue.edu), & Tho Le (thovle@purdue.edu)