Seminar "Automated Articulated Vehicles (AArV) - modeling, properties and control".
As part of the scientific animation of the automatic Department of LAMIH, a seminar will be held by Maciej Marcin Michałek, Professor at the Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Poland.
Summary: Current trends in the development of freight and public transport are leading to the use of so-called high-capacity vehicles, which in most practical applications become articulated structures. Manual maneuvers with multi-articulated vehicles are particularly difficult, demanding and can be dangerous. Therefore, partial or full automation of articulated vehicle movements seems to be justified in some applications. In this talk, we will study the problem of analytical and data-driven modeling of articulated vehicles, discuss some interesting properties of this type of moving structures, and discuss a modular and highly scalable cascade-like control scheme, which allows (semi-)automated agile maneuvers with vehicles comprising an arbitrary number of segments. Potential applications of kinematic models and cascade control systems to N-trailers and articulated city buses will be discussed. The presentation will be illustrated by a selection of simulation and experimental results obtained in the laboratory or in the field.
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Brief Biography: Maciej Marcin Michałek received a PhD and a Doctor of Science (habilitation) in the field of automation and robotics from Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Poland, in 2006 and 2015, respectively. He is currently an Associate/Academic Professor at the Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics at Poznan University of Technology, where he serves as the Deputy Director of Scientific Affairs. His current research interests include modeling, control design, and control applications, particularly in the area of non-holonomic systems, mobile robots, articulated vehicles, N-trailer structures, and intelligent/automated vehicles. He is a senior member of IEEE and the chair of the Polish chapter of IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (for the period 2022-2023). He was a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Control Systems Society conference (2017-present), a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (2011-present), and an associate editor of the Journal of the Franklin Institute (2020-2022).
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Maciej Marcin Michałek a obtenu un doctorat et un doctorat en sciences (habilitation) dans le domaine de l'automatisation et de la robotique à l'Université de technologie de Poznan (PUT), en Pologne, en 2006 et 2015, respectivement. Il est actuellement professeur associé/académique à l'Institut de contrôle automatique et de robotique de l'Université de technologie de Poznan, où il occupe le poste de directeur adjoint des affaires scientifiques. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur la modélisation, la conception du contrôle et les applications du contrôle, en particulier dans le domaine des systèmes nonholonomiques, des robots mobiles, des véhicules articulés, des structures de remorques en N et des véhicules intelligents/automatisés. Il est membre senior de l'IEEE et président du chapitre polonais de l'IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (pour la période 2022-2023). Il a été membre du comité de rédaction de la conférence de l'IEEE Control Systems Society (2017-aujourd'hui), membre du comité de rédaction du Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (2011-aujourd'hui) et rédacteur en chef adjoint du Journal of the Franklin Institute (2020-2022).