Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University
Professor
Princeton, New Jersey
naomi@princeton.edu
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(609) 258-5129
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Leonard's main area of research and teaching is in the field of control and dynamical systems, where she has made contributions both to theory and to application. The field involves designing and analyzing feedback and the behavior of complex, dynamical systems. In recent years she has focused on...
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Bio/Research
Leonard's main area of research and teaching is in the field of control and dynamical systems, where she has made contributions both to theory and to application. The field involves designing and analyzing feedback and the behavior of complex, dynamical systems. In recent years she has focused on multi-agent systems in engineering (design of robotic networks) and in nature (analysis of animal and human groups) and mathematical approaches for leveraging insights across contexts. Her work examines the role of distributed feedback and interconnection in collective motion and collective decision-making. For example, she designed distributed feedback strategies for agents who respond to their neighbors and the environment to perform as a group in climbing gradients and tracking level sets in the sampled field as well as in realizing motion patterns that maximize information in sensor measurements. She has developed rigorous means to show how features of agent interconnections, such as network structure (e.g., who is communicating with whom), information heterogeneity (e.g., who is sensing what about the environment), and leadership structure, determine performance measures of collective dynamics such as speed, accuracy, robustness to uncertainty, and flexibility in a changing environment.
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