DASC Lab Controls Conversations Seminar Series

The Distributed Aerospace Systems and Control Laboratory (DASC Lab) is hosting a (virtual) controls seminar series, to forge connections amongst the controls community, to help spark new ideas, and idenitify interesting and challenging research directions.

The format of each talk is very flexible. Roughly speaking, we think a good structure is a 30 min presentation followed by a 30 min discussion with the audience.

The seminars will be hosted through Zoom, and are open for anyone to attend. If the speakers agree to it, we would like to record the talks, and will later be made publicly available on Youtube.

Lead by Prof. Dimitra Panagou, our lab is at both the Robotics and Aerospace Engineering departments of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA. We generally focus on questions around safety critical controls, resilient multiagent systems, and human-robot interaction. More information about our lab is available here.

Jan-April 2023

For the Winter 2023 term, seminars will be on Tuesdays 12noon-1pm EST.

Meeting Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99623556902

Passcode: dasc-lab

	Jan 17: Heng (Hank) Yang Harvard University Object Pose Estimation with Statistical Guarantees: Conformal Keypoint Detection and Geometric Uncertainty Propagation
	Jan 31: Kunal Garg Massachusetts Institute of Technology Safe recovery of dynamical systems from actuator faults Links from the chat: https://github.com/kunalgarg42/FTneuralCBF/tree/quad_only https://github.com/MIT-REALM/neural_clbf/tree/main https://kunalgarg.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Sampling_based_safety_CCTA_22.pdf
	Feb 7: James Usevitch MIT Lincoln Labs Robust and Resilient Autonomous Systems
	Feb 14: SiQi Zhou University of Toronto Neural Networks as Add-on Modules for Improved Performance of Robot Control Systems
	Feb 28: Prithvi Akella California Institute of Technology Probabilistic Safety Verification
	Mar 14: Karen Leung University of Washington Revisiting "what it means to be safe?" for human-robot interactions Links to interesting papers: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14412 -- unification for safety concepts http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02761 -- ACC paper on learning safety concepts using CBFs http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03390 -- infusing safety in planning and control https://github.com/StanfordASL/hj_reachability -- HJ reachability toolbox. Super easy to use and nice toolbox. Much much much faster and nicer than helperOC. Has GPU support via Jax. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03504 -- didn't present on it, but a recent and related paper from the NVIDIA group with an intern.
	Mar 28: Max Cohen Boston University Adaptive and Learning-based Control of Safety-Critical Systems
	Apr 11: Lukas Brunke University of Toronto, and Technical University of Munich (Topic TBD)
	Apr 25: Petar Bevanda Technical University of Munich Learning Koopman Operator Dynamical Models

We are looking for speakers! If you would like to present, or would like to nominate a speaker, please reach out to me, Devansh Agrawal, at devansh@umich.edu. If the above dates/times don't work for you, we can arrange a different time too.

DASC Lab Controls Conversations Seminar Series

Jan-April 2023

Jan 17: Heng (Hank) Yang

Jan 31: Kunal Garg

Feb 7: James Usevitch

Feb 14: SiQi Zhou

Feb 28: Prithvi Akella

Mar 14: Karen Leung

Mar 28: Max Cohen

Apr 11: Lukas Brunke

Apr 25: Petar Bevanda