Self-Organising Sensor Networks in Ageless Aerospace Vehicles

Dr Mikhail Prokopenko
(joint work with Peter Wang, Philip Valencia, Don Price, Geoff Poulton)
Centre for Intelligent Systems Design
CSIRO ICT Centre

Tuesday 2nd September 2003 at 11am

Abstract

In this talk we discuss a multi-cellular sensing and communication network, embedded in an ageless aerospace vehicle, that is expected to detect and react to impact location and damage over a wide range of impact energies. In particular, we investigate self-organisation of robust impact boundaries enclosing critically damaged areas, and formation of impact networks connecting survived nodes. The results are obtained as part of the joint CSIRO-NASA Ageless Aerospace Vehicle (AAV) project.

Short resume

Mikhail Prokopenko is leading the multi-agent technology efforts in the Centre for Intelligent Systems Design at CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney. His long-term research goal is an effective integration of real-time perception, reasoning and action in autonomous agents, and better understanding of emergent behaviour in complex multi-agent systems. With his co-workers, Mikhail has developed a flexible multi-agent framework applicable to a number of application areas, as diverse as sensor networks and robotic search and rescue. Mikhail Prokopenko received his PhD in Computer Science from Macquarie University (2002), M.A. in Economics from the University of Missouri - Columbia (1994, USA), and M.Sc.(Honours) in Applied Mathematics from the Azerbaijan Institute of Petroleum and Chemistry (1988, USSR).