VSCL graduate students Kameron Eves and David Van Wijk will present papers in January at the 2023 AIAA SciTech Forum in National Harbor, MD.
Kameron Eves will be presenting the paper “Introduction to Adaptive Control for Multiple Time Scale Systems”. Eves presents a novel approach to Adaptive Control for Multiple Time Scale Systems with [K]Control of Adaptive Multiple Time Scale Systems (KAMS). KAMS fuses two adaptive control signals using multiple time scale techniques. Generalized formal definitions, stability criteria, and examples are developed and presented for each method. Results show that [K]Control of Adaptive Multiple Time Scale
Systems has the best performance because each reduced-order model is stabilized separately and because the fast dynamics converge to the manifold more quickly than the other methods.
David Van Wijk will be presenting the paper “Deep Reinforcement Learning Controller for Autonomous Tracking of Evasive Ground Target”. Van Wijk presents a method of tracking an evasive ground target using deep RL on a rotorcraft wherein the target attempts to hide behind occlusions. A variety of environment conditions are trained and evaluated, resulting in an agent able to successfully track a randomly moving target with the presence of occlusions.