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SUMMARY:Stochastic Models in Robotics and Structural Biology
DTSTART:20150519T140000
DTEND:20150519T160000
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DESCRIPTION:Gregory Chirikjian\nMany stochastic problems of interest in en
 gineering involve random rigid-body motions. In this talk\,a variety of st
 ochastic phenomena that evolve on the group of rigid-body motions will be 
 discussed. These include mobile robot path planning\, and robot-arm invers
 e kinematics. These topics lead in to our current work on multi-robot team
  diagnosis and repair\, information fusion\, and self-replicating robots. 
 The entropy of the set of all possible arrangements (or configurations) of
  spare parts in the environment is such a measure\, and has led us to stud
 y problems at the foundations of statistical mechanics and information the
 ory. Methods from noncommutative harmonic analysis\, probability and stati
 stics on Lie groups\, and hypo-elliptic diffusions arise naturally in thes
 e applications.\nSimilar mathematical issues encountered in structural bio
 logy in the context of DNA statistical mechanics and in the analysis of pr
 otein structure and motions will also be discussed.
LOCATION:BI A0 448 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BI%20A0%20448
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