Section Events
We hold technical meetings approximately monthly, typically involving presentations by experts or tours of companies or facilities. These are intended to be of interest to a broad spectrum of IEEE members. If you are a member and have any suggestions for presentations/tours that you would like to see, please contact Andrew Cook or any other member of the section executive.
The following is the schedule of upcoming and recent technical meetings.
Oceanic Engineering Chapter Technical Presentation - Dynamic Systems Research in Ocean Robotics: Engineering Innovation Advancing Scientific Observation
Monday, January 18, 2009, 7pm
S.J. Carew Building, Engineering Boardroom, 4th Floor (Subject to Change)
Presenter: James C. Kinsey, Ph.D., Assistant Scientist, Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ocean Robotics have remarkable progress in the last 20 years - transitioning from experimental vehicles to valuable assets for a tasks ranging from oil platform maintenance to marine archaeology. This talk focuses on the impact robotics research is having on deep-ocean science - specifically advances in controls and navigation. Recent adaptive identification and nonlinear observer research - motivated by ocean robot navigation - are presented. These advances are enabling engineers and scientists to obtain oceanographic datasets previously unachievable, including using AUVs to measure gravity anomalies resulting from small density changes in the Earth's crust.
Speaker Biography:
James Kinsey is an Assistant Scientist in the Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research focuses on the development of novel parameter identification and state estimation techniques for nonlinear systems, with a focus on systems related to underwater robotics and oceanography. He received his B.E from SUNY Stony Brook and his M.S. and Ph.D from The Johns Hopkins University - all in mechanical engineering. His current projects include the development of in-situ calibration techniques for navigation sensor calibration, dynamic model-based nonlinear state estimators for underwater robot navigation, and exploiting advances in underwater vehicle navigation to obtain fine spatial resolution gravity maps. He is actively involved in the development of the Sentry AUV and the Nereus HROV, serving as the navigation lead for both robots. In addition, he regularly goes to sea with these vehicles where he collaborates with other scientists to use ocean robots to obtain data essential to advancing our knowledge of the ocean and the processes occurring within.
Please contact Lori Hogan (Email: lori.hogan at ieee.org) or Dr. Ralf Bachmayer (bachmayer at mun.ca) for further information.
