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Workshop on the Frontiers in Distributed Communication, Sensing and Control
October 31 - November 2, 2008
Yale University
Slides of talks can be found at: slides
Pictures from the workshop can be found: photos
Over the last few years there has been a significant interest in developing a general framework that combines issues of distributed sensing, communication and control. This kind of systems-level view is needed to get a qualitative understanding (e.g. scaling properties, robustness) as well as a quantitative synthesis of real systems that are capable of performing effective inferencing and control tasks under overall resource constraints. Although, the nature of the problem is such that it overlaps and intersects many traditional areas of systems theory (signal processing, decision and control, information theory, communication theory), the problem of distributed sensing, communication, and control has been studied primarily within the context of these areas.
This workshop will bring together researchers studying informational and mathematical aspects of distributed communication, sensing, and control. While significant research and development effort over the last decade in the individual fields of distributed communication, sensing and control has laid the initial ground-work for practical deployment, realization of such distributed sensing and control systems is still in its infancy. The principle challenges, from a systems-level perspective, arise due to the difficulty in realizing the objectives of inferencing and control tasks for a distributed dynamical environment through an underlying power/bandwidth constrained ad-hoc networked infrastructure. The main challenge can be summarized as follows:
- How does one make decisions and determine control actions under uncertainty amongst a large numbers of communication constrained mobile agents that share spatially distributed dynamic information.
Registration: Registration is free; however it is required for admission. To register, send an email to Yale Workshop. Please indicate which days you will attend, where you are from, and whether you are a student.
Sponsors: National Science Foundation, Yale Department of Electrical Engineering
Organizing Committee: Nicola Elia, Chris Hadjicostis, Sanjoy Mitter, Stephen Morse, Venkatesh Saligrama, Sekhar Tatikonda