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Naomi Leonard
Alma materPrinceton University, University of Maryland
AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program[1]
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering,
Mechanical engineering
InstitutionsPrinceton University

Naomi Ehrich Leonard is the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She is the director of the Princeton Council on Science and Technology and an associated faculty member in the Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and the Program in Quantitative and Computational Biology.[2] She is the founding editor of the Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems.[3]

Life

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Leonard graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. degree in mechanical engineering in 1985. From 1985 to 1989, she worked in the electric power industry. She graduated from the University of Maryland with a M.S. in 1991 and Ph.D. in 1994, in electrical engineering, under the supervision of P. S. Krishnaprasad.[1][4] She Joined Princeton's faculty as an assistant professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1994.[2]

Research

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Leonard's research is in the area of dynamics and control theory. Her early work involved the development of "energy-shaping" methods of feedback control for single vehicles. It has applications to the control theory of more general mechanical systems.[5] She later expanded her work to the control of multi-agent systems, with an emphasis on collective sensing, decision-making, and motion.[6] Her work includes the study of multi-agent systems in nature and the application of insights from nature to man-made systems.[6]

Many of Leonard's projects have involved the control of aquatic vehicles. She operates the underwater robotic tank lab at Princeton.[2] She has worked for a number of years with the Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network.[7] In 2006, she led the Adaptive Sampling and Prediction project, which used 10 underwater vehicles to form an automated and adaptive ocean observing system in Monterey Bay.[8][9]

In developing algorithms for robot control, she integrates physics and fluid mechanics with research about uncertainty and collective decision-making. She draws upon nature for her models, studying the animal flocking behavior of fish, honeybees, and birds. Her autonomous robotic swarms mimic schools of fish and are used to collect data and explore their marine environment.[10] [11]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Clark School alum Naomi Leonard named MacArthur Fellow". University of Maryland. September 27, 2004. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Leonard Lab". Princeton University. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  3. ^ Allen, Liz (June 1, 2018). "Annual Reviews publishes first multidisciplinary autonomous systems review journal". Annual Reviews News. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  4. ^ Leonard, Naomi E. (1994). "Averaging and Motion Control of Systems on Lie Groups". DRUM: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Naomi Leonard Engineer : Class of 2004". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  6. ^ a b Naomi Ehrich Leonard - Princeton Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
  7. ^ Flexas, Mar M.; Troesch, Martina I.; Chien, Steve; Thompson, Andrew F.; Chu, Selina; Branch, Andrew; Farrara, John D.; Chao, Yi (March 2018). "Autonomous Sampling of Ocean Submesoscale Fronts with Ocean Gliders and Numerical Model Forecasting". Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 35 (3): 503–521. Bibcode:2018JAtOT..35..503F. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0037.1.
  8. ^ Fiorelli, Edward; Leonard, Naomi Ehrich; Bhatta, Pradeep; Paley, Derek A.; Bachmayer, Ralf; Fratantoni, David M. (2006), "Multi-AUV Control and Adaptive Sampling in Monterey Bay" (PDF), IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 31 (4): 935, Bibcode:2006IJOE...31..935F, doi:10.1109/JOE.2006.880429, S2CID 4803872, retrieved 2017-02-03.
  9. ^ Ramp, S.R.; Davis, R.E.; Leonard, N.E.; Shulman, I.; Chao, Y.; Robinson, A.R.; Marsden, J.; Lermusiaux, P.F.J.; Fratantoni, D.M.; Paduan, J.D.; Chavez, F.P.; Bahr, F.L.; Liang, S.; Leslie, W.; Li, Z. (February 2009). "Preparing to predict: The Second Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network (AOSN-II) experiment in the Monterey Bay". Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 56 (3–5): 68–86. Bibcode:2009DSRII..56...68R. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.08.013. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  10. ^ Song, Juwon (21 June 2017). "Interdisciplinary Panel Dives into Underwater Robotics". AAAS. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  11. ^ McLeish, Tom (January 10, 2019). The poetry and music of science : comparing creativity in science and art (First ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198797999. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  12. ^ "Trustees name nine to tenure". Princeton Weekly Bulletin. April 19, 1999. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  13. ^ "2007 IEEE CSS Awards Ceremony (Excerpt)" (PDF). IEEE Controls Systems Magazine. 2008. p. 100. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  14. ^ "ASME Fellows list" (PDF). ASME. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  15. ^ SIAM Fellows: Class of 2012, retrieved 2015-09-09.
  16. ^ IFAC Fellows
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