纳奥米-伦纳德 工程师

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Naomi Leonard
Engineer | Class of 2004
Building multiple, miniature, autonomous underwater vehicles that mimic the behavior of schooling fish.

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Title
Engineer
Affiliation
Princeton University
Location
Princeton, New Jersey
Age
40 at time of award
Area of Focus
Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Published September 28, 2004
ABOUT NAOMI'S WORK
Naomi Leonard is an engineer who develops autonomous underwater vehicles. This work synthesizes elements as diverse as fluid mechanics, robotics, computer science, oceanography, and biology. Leonard's initial efforts focused on single vehicles that have the means to control motion directly in some, but not all, dimensions. She showed how "energy-shaping" methods could be used to generate stable feedback control; these results have found application beyond robotics, extending control theory for mechanical systems in general. With this theoretical foundation, Leonard moved to the design of coordinated control of arrays of multiple mobile agents. In collaboration with the mathematicians, oceanographers, and biologists of the Adaptive Ocean Sampling Network (AOSN) project, she has investigated how biological groups (such as flocking birds and schooling fish) coordinate their motion and how to get man-made mobile autonomous agents to mimic that behavior. Beyond its contributions to engineering and behavioral science, autonomous underwater technology allows oceanographers to place measuring instruments in the right place at the right time to collect data essential for understanding the physical forces controlling ocean dynamics. The technology also holds significant promise for a variety of military defense applications.

BIOGRAPHY
Naomi Leonard received a B.S.E. (1985) from Princeton University and an M.S. (1991) and a Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Maryland, College Park. Before beginning her Ph.D. studies, Leonard worked as an engineer in the electric power industry. In 1994, she became an assistant professor at Princeton University in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and was promoted to associate professor and full professor in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Since 1998, she has also been associated with Princeton’s Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics. Leonard’s work has been published in numerous scientific journals, including the Journal of Dynamical Control Systems, Physica D, and Automatica.



纳奥米-伦纳德
工程师｜2004级
建立多个微型自主水下交通工具，模仿鱼群的行为。

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标题
工程师
工作单位
普林斯顿大学
工作地点
普林斯顿，新泽西
年龄
获奖时40岁
重点领域
机械工程、计算机科学和电气工程
发表于2004年9月28日
关于纳奥米的工作
纳奥米-伦纳德是一名开发自主水下交通工具的工程师。这项工作综合了流体力学、机器人学、计算机科学、海洋学和生物学等多种元素。伦纳德最初的努力集中在有办法直接控制某些（但不是所有）维度上的运动的单一车辆。她展示了如何用 "能量塑造 "的方法来产生稳定的反馈控制；这些结果已经在机器人学之外找到了应用，扩展了一般机械系统的控制理论。有了这个理论基础，伦纳德转向设计多个移动代理阵列的协调控制。她与自适应海洋采样网络（AOSN）项目的数学家、海洋学家和生物学家合作，研究了生物群体（如成群的鸟和成群的鱼）如何协调它们的运动，以及如何让人造的移动自主代理模仿这种行为。除了对工程和行为科学的贡献外，自主水下技术使海洋学家能够在正确的时间将测量仪器放在正确的位置，以收集对理解控制海洋动态的物理力量至关重要的数据。该技术也为各种军事防御应用带来了巨大的希望。

个人简历
纳奥米-伦纳德在普林斯顿大学获得了理科学士学位（1985年），在马里兰大学学院公园分校获得了理科硕士学位（1991年）和博士学位（1994年）。在开始她的博士研究之前，伦纳德在电力行业担任工程师。1994年，她成为普林斯顿大学机械和航空航天工程系的助理教授，并在1999年和2003年分别晋升为副教授和正教授。自1998年以来，她还与普林斯顿大学的应用和计算数学项目合作。伦纳德的工作发表在许多科学杂志上，包括《动态控制系统杂志》、《Physica D》和《Automatica》。