Research into autonomous control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has received significant interest in the research community, together with an upsurge in potential applications for monitoring and surveillance tasks. In this talk, I first motivate the use of UAVs to find faults within high voltage electricity networks, an area whose feasibility has been established, but where substantial challenges remain. This seminar then shows the pylon tracking task to be inherently repetitive task which necessitates accurate motion control and the ability to perform automatic transition motions. It is also a task that combines precise actions (i.e. location of equipment) and more flexibility motions (i.e. moving between pylons and HV lines). This motivates the development a more general framework of Iterative Learning Control (ILC) based algorithms for high performance tracking with a view to improving accuracy from trial to trial by using information from previous executions of the task. I conclude with insights on how this novel approach for point-to-point iterative learning control can be formulated and applied to UAV monitoring of high voltage electricity networks.
47a4ed168b3eeac5ca76b8338c9b9a4cB121Friday, April 19, 2024 - 11:27https://www.vlc.ecs.soton.ac.uk/events/B121ECS SeminarsECS Events<a style='color:white' href='http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/1'>Building 1 (1)</a> - 2023http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/1.map<div class="ExternalClass35FFE6A030584F9AA3DD59BA150CF65B"><p>My general interest lies in the biophysics of living cells both at the single cell and tissue level. At the single cell level, my research aims to understand the biological and physical mechanisms that power cell motility within three-dimensional environments such as connective tissue. Other research looks at the biophysics and biology of cell protrusions known as blebs.</p> \n<div>At the tissue level, my research is investigating what single cell properties influence tissue properties using simple cellular aggregates such as cysts. Another aspect of this research is the design of in vitro systems to study simple, yet important, morphogenetic events such as cell sheet invagination.</div> \n<div>To investigate these questions, the laboratory combines modern molecular and cell biological techniques with biophysical measurement and micromanipulation techniques derived from nanotechnology, microfluidic technology, and computational modelling.<br />My laboratory is funded by the Royal Society, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, and the Human Frontier Science Program.<br /></div></div>