Lead Research Scientist -iRobot Corporation
- Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
(iRobot): (781) 430-3922
Business: deickstedt at irobot dot com
Personal: eickstedt at alum dot mit dot edu
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Lead Research Scientist -iRobot Corporation |
My research interests are focused on the intelligent control of autonomous marine robots, particularly adaptive and collaborative motion planning.
I am interested in how autonomous robots can adapt their motion to increase their knowledge about the environment based on real-time data from
their sensors, especially for distributed sensing problems where multiple, collaborating sensors can view the environment from different
vantage points. A partial list of my interests are:
| 1. The theory and practice of robot autonomy including autonomy architectures |
| 2. Command and control of groups of collaborating autonomous robots |
| 3. Adaptive sensing applications with autonomous underwater robots |
| 4. Artificial intelligence as applied to robot autonomy and perception |
| 5. Large-scale and distributed simulation of autonomous systems |
I am currently working on a number of applications including target localization and tracking for fixed and moving targets, adaptive rapid environmental
assessment of the ocean environment, and command and control of large groups of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) which include both powered
UUVs and
gliders. My interests also include research on next-generation technology for autonomous marine robots including energy systems, sensor
miniaturization,
and novel communications and sensing devices.