Plenary Lecture
Multitime Modeling in Robotics
Professor Constantin Udriste
Department of Mathematics-Informatics
University Politehnica of Bucharest
Romania
E-mail: udriste@mathem.pub.ro
Abstract: The talk presents two-time motor control strategies for skilled movements. There are found movements which are optimum with various "costs", given by double integrals and different PDEs constraints (Newton Law as first order PDEs, multitime hyperbolic-parabolic Newton Law, multitime elliptic Newton Law). For simplicity, the movements, the constraints and the costs depend upon two independent variables.
The model-based investigation of human and human-like motions is an important inter-disciplinary research topic which involves aspects of biomechanics, physiology, orthopedics, psychology, neurosciences, robotics, sport, computer graphics and applied mathematics. Two-time mathematical models can help to better understand the basic underlying mechanisms of these motions and to improve them.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Important Career Positions: Emeritus Professor, Consultant Professor, Dean, Director, Chair, Full Professor 1990-, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Department of Mathematics-Informatics.
Number of PhD Students: 25 in due time and 21 Doctors in Mathematics.
Membership of Associations: AMS, 1987; Tensor Society, 1985; Balkan Society of Geometers, President, 1994;
Publications: over 50 books; 300 papers; 300 communications.
Honors: D. Hurmuzescu Prize, Romanian Academy, 1985; Award MEI, 1988; Correspondent Member, Academia Peloritana, Messina, 1997; Prize COPIRO - 2000 for Exact Sciences; Premio Anassiloos International 2002, Arte Cultura Scienze, Italy; Titular Member, Academy of Romanian Scientists, 2007; Honorary Member, World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, 2008-; Stefan Hepites Prize, Academy of Romania, 2010.
Organizer: Chair-Committee: American Conference on Applied Mathematics (Math’08) and Management, Marketing and Finances (MMF’08), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, March 24-26, 2008. International Program Committee: The Applied Computing Conference (ACC-08), Istanbul, Turkey, May 27-30, 2008; The International Conference of Differential Geometry and Dynamical Systems ( DGDS-2009 ), October 8 - 11, 2009, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania; European Computing Conference (ECC-09), 115-119, Tbilisi, Georgia, June 26-28, 2009; The International Conference of Differential Geometry and Dynamical Systems ( DGDS-2010 ), 25-28 August 2010, University Politehnica of Bucharest , Romania.
Fields of Interest: Differential Geometry, Optimizations on Riemannian Manifolds, Magnetic Dynamical Systems, Geometric Dynamics.