Event
Clark School Research Seminar: ONR's Marc Steinberg, "The Science of Autonomy Program"
Friday, December 5, 2014
11:00 a.m.
1105 Kim Building (PEPCO Room)
Alison Flatau
aflatau@umd.edu
NOTE: There has been some confusion about the time and location of this seminar. The time and location listed here are correct as of 12.4.14.
Clark School Research Seminar
The Science of Autonomy Program: Multi-disciplinary Challenges and Research Directions
Marc Steinberg
Program Manager
Office of Naval Research
Marc Steinberg is a program officer at the Office of Naval Research, where he manages basic and applied research programs in autonomy. At the basic research level, he focuses on highly multi-disciplinary autonomy research that cuts across different technical areas and mission domains. Some of the types of fields that are involved include control theory, computational intelligence, human factors engineering, and related fields such as biology/animal behavior/cognition, economics/game theory, cognitive science/psychology, and neuroscience. At the applied research level, he focuses on autonomous air systems and on multivehicle collaborative systems. Prior to coming to ONR, he was a technical fellow and principle investigator at naval laboratories on research projects that dealt with applications of computational intelligence to aerospace control, autonomous control, aircraft safety, vehicle management systems, prognostics and health management, and robust, adaptive, nonlinear, and reconfigurable control. He has also worked on a number of systems development programs to help transition and mature advanced technologies to fielded systems. He has authored or co-authored papers on these subjects and received a number of professional society awards for his technical contributions including the Derek George Astridge Award for Contribution to Aerospace Safety (British Institution of Mechanical Engineers), the Dr. George Rappaport Best Paper Award (IEEE National Aerospace Electronics Conference), the 2nd Best Paper of Conference Award for AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, and has twice-won Best Paper awards for AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America. He has received B.S. and M.S degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and a second M.S. degree in Human Factors Engineering.
