ICON Distinguished Seminar in Autonomy: Prof. Petros Ioannou (USC)

ime: 3:00-4:00 pm Eastern Time, March 22 (Friday), 2024

Location: HAMP 1252

Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/4n67d8tm

Free coffee and snacks will be provided.

Control and Optimization for Safety and Mobility in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Abstract:

Advances in electronics, computers, sensor technologies, software tools and communications are slowly changing the intelligence of vehicles and the way we manage and control traffic for improved mobility and safety. While on the vehicle level safety is the main priority on the traffic level efficiency and mobility are the primary goals.

In this talk I will address some fundamental issues with vehicle safety, how it improved over the years and what are the main challenges as we move toward fully automated vehicles without onboard drivers. I will address how smart vehicles can be connected with the infrastructure by serving as sensors and actuators in assisting the infrastructure in optimizing and managing traffic flows for better mobility and what is the importance of feedback control and optimization for safety and mobility.

I will present examples of vehicle and traffic levels and how control and optimization can improve safety and mobility. I will address the importance of connectivity that will facilitate centrally coordinated approaches where system optimality becomes the main objective. Several example applications will be presented.

Short Biography:

Petros Ioannou is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California and holds the A.V ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Endowed Chair. He also holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering. He is the founder and Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies and co-founder and Associate Director for Research of the University Transportation Center METRANS at the University of Southern California. Dr. Ioannou was the recipient of the Axelby Outstanding Paper Award by the IEEE Control System Society in 1984 and the recipient of a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award for his research in Adaptive Control. In 2009 he received the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Outstanding Application Award and the 2009 IET Heaviside Medal for Achievement in Control. In 2012 he received the IEEE ITSS Research Award and in 2016 the IEEE Transportation Technologies Field Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Inventors and Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences.  

Dr. Ioannou is a Life Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of IFAC and AAAS. He is the author/co-author of 9 books and over 400 research papers in the area of controls and applications and intelligent transportation systems. 

Recording:

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