Dr. Joshua Peschel, a Research Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Human-Infrastructure Interaction Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will present on December 3 from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. in Avery 347. Reception at 11:30 a.m. in Avery 348.
Abstract:
Smart infrastructure has traditionally focused on the urban environment with applications related to water, energy, and transportation infrastructure. In this talk I will expand the definition of infrastructure to include agricultural, natural, and urban systems, and present a suite of new assistive technologies that leverage robotics and computer vision to broaden sensing and sense-making across these three different types of systems. This talk will be of interest to researchers and practitioners working in fields that include the agricultural sciences, civil and environmental engineering, and computer science.
Dr. Joshua Peschel is a Research Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Human-Infrastructure Interaction Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests focus on creating new technologies such as low-cost land, sea, and air robots, and machine vision algorithms to improve sensing and sense-making for agricultural, natural, and urban systems. He is currently funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Department of Energy ARPA-E, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.