Professor Sekhar Tatikonda
Department of Electrical
Engineering
Yale University
Abstract:
Communication is an important component of
distributed, networked, and cooperative control systems. In most current
systems the communication aspects are designed separately from the control
aspects. Recently there has been an increasing interest in studying control
systems employing multiple sensors and actuators that are geographically
distributed. For these systems
this design separation is no longer tenable. Hence there is a need for a
unified view of control and communication. In this talk we discuss how tools
from information theory can be used to develop such a view. Specifically we
apply source coding, channel coding, binning, and coding with side-information
techniques to a variety of control with communication problems including
settings with non-traditional information patterns, multiple sensors, and
multiple agents.
Bio:
Sekhar Tatikonda is presently an assistant
professor of electrical engineering at Yale University. He received his PhD
degree in EECS from MIT in 2000. He was a postdoctoral fellow in EECS at
UC-Berkeley from 2000-2002. His research interests span topics in information
theory, statistical AI, and
control
Friday, February 3, 2006
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.