College of Science & Engineering Explores ‘Multirobot Coordination: Methods and Applications’

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YEREVAN, Armenia – On July 8, 2015, the American University of Armenia (AUA) College of Science & Engineering hosted an event on ‘Multirobot Coordination: Methods and Applications’ with speaker Nora Ayanian.

Ayanian presented her research, which focuses on developing a theoretical basis for a coherent, unifying framework of distributed multirobot coordination. She develops end-to-end processes that start with a high level specification for a group task and delivers code for the individual robots in the team. Ideally, this results in a science of multirobot coordination, where solutions can easily be ported from one task or platform to another.

Ayanian also discussed several of the projects she and her team are currently working on in the lab.

Nora Ayanian is a Gabilan Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. She won the Best Student Paper Award at ICRA 2008 for her work on constrained multirobot control. In 2013 she was named one of IEEE Intelligent Systems “AI’s 10 to watch” and in 2014 was named to NerdScholar’s “40 Under 40: Professors who Inspire.” In 2015, she was honored as one of the inaugural Mic 50, Mic.com’s list of 50 influential young people. Ayanian is a co-founder and current co-chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems, and co-produced the first ICRA trailer in 2015.

Founded in 1991, the American University of Armenia (AUA) is a private, independent university located in Yerevan, Armenia and affiliated with the University of California. AUA provides a global education in Armenia and the region, offering high-quality, graduate and undergraduate studies, encouraging civic engagement, and promoting public service and democratic values.