[ISD Seminar] Introduction to F1Tenth Robotic Driving and Underwater Internet of Things

This talk consists of two parts: the first part introduces the F1tenth and F1/16th teaching platforms for autonomous driving. It includes an ROS 2 simulator and 1/10- or 1/16-scale toy cars equipped with edge computing device and sensors. The teaching modules include reactive algorithms such as gap following and path planning algorithms such as SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) and Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT)/RRT*.

The second part of the talk introduces the basics of underwater Internet of Thinks and the three means of underwater wireless communication. It also discusses the current state-of-the-art technologies in the PHY layer underwater acoustic communications, such as Single Carrier Coherent Modulation (SCCM), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), and Orthogonal Time-Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation schemes and their filed applications.
 

Speaker’s biography:

Prof. Yahong Rosa ZHENG received the Ph.D. degree from Carleton University, Ottawa, ONT, Canada, in 2002. She was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow for two years with the University of Missouri-Columbia. Then, she was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology for 13 years. Since Aug. 2018, she has been a professor in the ECE department at Lehigh University. She has developed more than 10 new courses over the last 18 years of college teaching. Her research interests include underwater and underground IoT, wireless communications, wireless sensor networks, compressive sensing, machine learning and robotics. She has served as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for many IEEE international conferences. She served as Associate Editor for three IEEE journals and a senior editor for IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. She is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. She is the recipient of an NSF faculty CAREER award in 2009. She has been an IEEE fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society since 2015. She has also served on the IEEE Fellow evaluation committee for the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society since 2018.