Bremen Human Space Exploration Seminar
Guest: Dr. Dmitriy Shutin
DLR – German Aerospace Center, Institute for Communication and Navigation Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany)
Future robotic in-situ space exploration is a precursor for human colonization of our solar system and search for life on other planets. In contrast to state-of-the-art robotic rovers for Mars or Moon exploration, future robotic platforms will likely consist of multiple units, forming swarms or teams to provide large spatial sensing aperture, increased efficiency, and robustness. Yet these benefits also come at a price: as teleoperation of multiple systems can be prohibitively difficult, robots have to exhibit an increased level autonomy concerning communication, navigation and exploration. In this talk we will therefore discuss methodology as well as recent advances in multi-agent communication, navigation and cooperative exploration. A special focus of the talk will be on swarm exploration algorithms – methods for cooperative analysis and decision making in data-limited scenarios. Some applications for planetary space exploration, as well as spin-off applications on Earth will be discussed.
Dmitriy Shutin received his Master degree in Computer Science in 2000 from Dniepropetrovsk State University, Ukraine, and the Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, in 2006. During 2001-2006 and 2006-2009, he was a Teaching Assistant and an Assistant Professor, respectively, with the Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory at Graz University of Technology. In 2009 he joined Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where until 2011 he worked as a Research Associate. In 2011 he joined the Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center, where he is currently a leader of the Swarm Exploration Group. His current research interests include machine learning for signal processing, modeling and estimation of the radio propagation channels, statistical signal processing, and distributed algorithms.
Dr. Shutin was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS). In 2009 he was awarded the Erwin Schroedinger Research Fellowship. Since 2012 till 2014 he acted as selected advisor of German air navigation service provider, within the Navigational System Panel of ICAO. He is Senior Member of IEEE.
Bremen Human Space Exploration Seminar
The seminar takes place every third Wednesday of the month at 13:30 CET/CEST online via zoom and consists of a 40-minute talk followed by a 40-minute discussion.
The zoom link for the meeting will be send via email to all registered members of the space-exploration mailing list. You can register here.
