Kanna Rajan
Location: (Moss Landing, California)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.mbari.org/autonomy/index.htm
Keywords: Automated Planning/Scheduling and Execution, Agent architectures for real-world environments, Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Plan Representations, State Estimation, Machine Learning, Uncertainty and AI
Posted on: Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision
Research Interests:
My interests are in building practical devices that will be adaptive and persistent in hostile real-world environments. In my current research environment, I am working with biologists, ecologists and physical, chemical and biological oceanographers to make marine robotic platforms be responsive to environmental state to enable the study of critical problems in the coastal oceans impacted both by local forcing (anthropogenic and natural) as well as by global climate change. The key technical areas of interest are in Constraint-Based Planning and Execution, Statistical Machine Learning, AI-based Distributed Control and Mixed-Initiative systems. A secondary interest is in Work Practice Ethnography for mixed human-robotic teams and techniques in data assimilation and modeling for coastal oceanography.
