CSP - Workshop on Ocean Modelling plus Sampling equals Control
Abstract
The world???s oceans are poorly sampled to understand the inter-relationships between the biological,physical and climatological changes taking place rapidly, especially in northern waters relevant toNorway. The poor state of sampling is in part due to lack of modern tools and methods (includingrobotics and satellite remote sensing) being applied in a focused and cohesive manner at spatio-temporalscales across the micro and macro domains which are tightly correlated. There is need for designing,implementing and testing algorithms for efficient sampling of the oceans, and to have the broader impactof commingling methods in statistics, oceanography and automated control including artificialintelligence for adaptive sampling.This workshop titled ???Ocean Modeling + Sampling => Control??? is initiated and will be organized bythree collaborators across disciplinary boundaries at NTNU and Sintef Ocean working on oceanographicmodeling and data analytics. Eidsvik???s background is in Environmental Statistics, Ingrid Ellingsen???s inPhysical Oceanography, and Kanna Rajan???s in Robotics and AI Planning and Control. Rajan is a UScitizen.The target groups for the workshop are researchers with background and interest in oceanographicmodeling and data, spatial statistics and machine learning, control engineering and adaptive sampling.The goal of the workshop is toI. Gain knowledge about oceanographic modeling and data platforms to build better workflowsfor assimilating various ocean data and learning correlations of these complex spatio-temporalprocesses.II. Develop insight about the possible sampling strategies for on-line understandingoceanographic phenomena.This is an interactive workshop, and participants are expected to take an active role in discussions,sparking interest, and to encourage multidisciplinary work in new directions. Each speaker should talknot just about what they do, but also provide a perspective of their respective disciplines and its principalchallenges for contributing to the ocean sciences. Even if there are several people from the samediscipline, having multiple views will provide others with a broad outline of where things are and howthey are evolving. Each speaker should also try to articulate how they would reach outside their ???comfortzone??? ??? this is essential for us to be able to break new ground and think ???out of the box??? for what is oneof the most existential problem of our times: the study of the changing climate. And further, as aninclusive, inter-disciplinary event with international participants from Europe, the Americas and Asia,we expect and will encourage such a diverse set of views.The workshop has a homepage:https://wiki.math.ntnu.no/ocean-analytics/where the updated program will be posted. The presentations will be posted here in addition, duringthe workshop.Names and affiliations of invited speakers are shown in the tentative program below. We are expectingto invite ONR PM???s Paluszkiewicz (terri.paluszkiewicz@navy.mil), Stack (jason.stack@navy.mil) andSteinberg (marc.steinberg.ctr@navy.mil) to be invited to the event. All are focused on issues related tomarine robotics and autonomy, which lies at the heart of the event. The US Navy and the US DoD havedirect interest in the field of Sampling and Control. The above PM???s have funded substantial efforts inthis field, including those of one of the organizers (Rajan) when at MBARI (www.mbari.org). Thisincludes the extensive multi-institution field driven AOSN (Autonomous Ocean Sampling Networkhttps://aosn.mbari.org) exercise in which Rajan participated.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 04, 2018
- Source ID
- N629091812158
Entities
People
- Jo Eidsvik
Organizations
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy