Intelligent Autonomous Systems: Dynamics, Control and Navigation

Abstract

Autonomous systems are broadly prevalent in many sectors, from manufacturing, agriculture, traffic management to medical industry. While tremendous progress has been made over the last decade in autonomous systems, many challenges still exist. This requires advances in many aspects of vehicle autonomy, ranging from design to control, perception, planning, coordination, and human interaction. The autonomous systems operating in complex, dynamic, and interactive environments require artificial intelligence that rapidly adapts to unpredictable situations. In this seminar, Prof. Shan will present some recent research outcomes on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (UAVs, UGVs and self-driving cars) from his research group, Spacecraft Dynamics, Control and Navigation Laboratory (SDCNLab) at York University. These topics include payload transportation using UAVs, UAV trajectory generation, game-theoretic decision making for autonomous driving vehicles.

Speaker

Prof. Jinjun Shan is a full Professor at the Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University. He received his PhD degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2002. He joined York University in 2006 as Assistant Professor of Space Engineering and was promoted to Full Professor in 2016. He had served as the department chair from 2018 to 2023. Prior to his appointment in York, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) and City University of Hong Kong. Prof. Shan’s research areas include dynamics, control and navigation of autonomous systems, multi-agent systems, smart materials and structures, spacecraft dynamics and control, and space instrumentation. His pioneering work has led to over 200 widely cited publications, including two books, as well as two patents. Prof. Shan’s accomplishments in research and engineering education have seen him recognized with prestigious awards such as a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), a Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and a Fellow of American Astronautical Society (AAS).