Course Overview

Course Title: Sustainable marine environment intelligent monitoring

Relevant SDGs: Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources

Credit(s): 2 Credits

Course Description:

This course focuses on the theme of "protection and sustainable utilization of oceans and marine resources to promote sustainable development". The course adopts a combination of theory and practice to introduce related technologies and typical applications of ocean intelligent autonomous monitoring. Typically, the course includes unmanned surface vehicle(USV),unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV), autonomous underwater vehicle(AUV), and related algorithms for data processing. After successfully completing this course, students are able to:

• have a comprehensive and preliminary understanding of the field of sustainable ocean intelligence autonomous monitoring. 
• understand and master the overall architecture and key technologies of the three important autonomous systems of USV, UAV, and AUV. 
• implement basic ocean intelligent autonomous monitoring system with programming software.

Academic Team

PI:

• GAO Rui, Assistant Professor, rgao@sjtu.edu.cn
• WANG Jian, Assistant Research Fellow, nsms_sjtu@sjtu.edu.cn

Collaborators:

• Roland Siegwart, Professor, ETH Zurich, rsiegwart@ethz.ch
• Fabio Ruggiero, University of Naples Federico II, fabio.ruggiero@unina.it

• Howard Li, University of New Brunswick, howard@unb.ca
• Zhaobo Zheng, Honda Research Institute, zhaobo_zheng@honda-ri.com

What skills will students get?

1. Understand the meaning of autonomous monitoring of ocean intelligence, explain the key technologies of autonomous systems such as unmanned surface vehicle(USV),unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV), autonomous underwater vehicle(AUV).
2. Exploit unmanned system technology to analyze and solve practical problems of sustainable ocean intelligent autonomous monitoring.
3. Understand the basic algorithms of intelligent autonomous system.

Mode of Teaching

Lectures & Discussion & Exercises & Project demos

Grading

1. Attendance: 30%;
2. Group Discussion: 30%;
3. Final Group Presentation: 40%

Course-specific Restrictions

None.

Class Schedule

Instructors

GAO Rui

Rui Gao received the Doctor of Science (Tech.) degree in automation, systems and control engineering from Aalto University, Finland, in 2020. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Aalto University in 2021. Since 2022, she is Assistant Professor at the School of Naval Architecture Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research interests include autonomous systems, state estimation, and convex optimization.

WANG Jian

Jian Wang is Assistant Research Fellow at the School of Naval Architecture Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has published 15 related papers, applied for 4 invention patents and obtained 8 software Copyrights, and presided over a number of topics related to navigation control of USVs and cooperative control of USV formation. His research results "Test and verification technology and application of ship intelligent control System" won the first prize of Scientific and Technological Progress of the Chinese Society of Naval Architecture Engineering in 2021. His research interests include the design of Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) platform and the cooperative control of marine unmanned multi-agents.

Zhaobo Zheng

Zhaobo Zheng is a senior scientist at Honda Research Institute USA, Inc (HRI) located in San Jose, California. His research mainly focuses on multimodal machine learning and human-computer interaction. At HRI, his research focuses on human state understanding in mobilities, such as driving style preference detection, workload estimation, and wellbeing predictions. He got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2021. At Vanderbilt, his research focused on pattern recognition and interaction design for individuals with Autism. Aspects of the dissertation include early detection of Autism, problem behavior prediction, and behavioral intervention games. He got his bachelor’s degree also in Mechanical Engineering, from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2015. He exchanged at the University of Michigan, Dearborn in his senior year to study automobile engineering. Zhaobo serves on the organization committee of RO-MAN 2024.

Fabio Ruggiero

Fabio Ruggiero is an Associate Professor of Automatic Control and Robotics in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Naples Federico II, where he is responsible for the DynLeg (Dynamic manipulation and Legged robotics) research area. In particular, his studies specialise in control strategies for dexterous, dual-hand and nonprehensile robotic manipulation, unmanned aerial vehicles (also equipped with small-scale robot manipulators), legged robots, and human-robot force interaction. He is Chair of the IEEE Italy RAS Chapter. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Robotics and has been a Program Committee member of some international conferences. He has published over 100 journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. He has participated in several European research projects. He has been the principal investigator of three projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Research.

Roland Siegwart

Roland Siegwart is full Professor of Autonomous Systems at ETH Zurich since July 2006 and Founding Co-Director of the Wyss Zurich. From January 2010 to December 2014, he took office as Vice President Research and Corporate Relations in the ETH Executive Board. He is member of the board of directors of various companies, including Komax and NZZ. Roland Siegwart's research interests are in the design and control of robot systems operating in complex and highly dynamical environments. His major goal is to find new ways to deal with uncertainties and enable the design of highly interactive and adaptive autonomous robots.

Howard Li

Howard Li is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Canada. He is a registered professional engineer in the Province of Ontario. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Certificate in University Teaching from the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He received his certificate in Team Based Project Management from the School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. Dr. Li is a board member of the IEEE SA Standards Board. He chairs the IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award committee, one of the highest technical recognitions given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers professional society. He is honoured to chair the first autonomous robotics standard ever published by the IEEE, with over 100 group members from academia, industry, and government agencies from all continents. Dr. Li is a visiting professor of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland and Università di Pavia, Italy, etc. Before joining UNB, he was employed by Atlantis Systems International in the development of training systems for the F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft for the Boeing company, Canadian Forces, Royal Australian Air Force, and training systems for the Royal Danish Air Force. He has developed software and hardware for both civilian and military applications. Dr. Li’s research interests are UxVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned underwater vehicles), motion planning, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), mechatronics, control systems, robotics, multi-agent systems, and artificial intelligence.

Course Contact

GAO Rui, rgao@sjtu.edu.cn