CE Seminar: Jonathan Sprinkle, "Autonomous Systems, Modeling, and Code Generation", 4 Oct, 2:00-3:00 in ECE 530
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| Date: | 4 Oct 2007, 2:00-3:00 |
| Title: | Autonomous Systems, Modeling, and Code Generation |
| Speaker: | Jonathan Sprinkle |
| Location: | ECE530 |
Abstract:
The research topic of model based systems engineering is emerging as a rich field for exploration. As an application, systems built out of individual components are interesting to commercial and defense industries. As a discipline, formal modeling is coming into its own, becoming more of a science and less of an art.
In this talk, I will give an overview of previous applications in autonomous systems, and how the use of modeling (in appropriate areas) has enabled significant performance increases, or fundamental contributions, to the software running those systems. I will also provide some fundamental explanations of the concepts of metamodeling. Finally, I will explain how the emerging topic of cyber-physical systems is relevant to these research ideas.
Bio:
Dr. Jonathan Sprinkle is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona. Until June 2007, he was the Executive Director of the Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests and experience are in systems control and engineering, through modeling and metamodeling, and he teaches in controls and systems modeling.
Dr. Sprinkle is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (PhD, MS) and Tennessee Technological University (BSEE).