Naomi Leonard
{{Short description|American mechanical and aerospace engineer}}
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Naomi Ehrich Leonard is the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She is the director of the Princeton Council on Science and Technology and an associated faculty member in the Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and the Program in Quantitative and Computational Biology.{{cite web |title=Leonard Lab |url=https://www.princeton.edu/~naomi |website=Princeton University |access-date=15 September 2021}} She is the founding editor of the Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems.{{cite journal |last1=Allen |first1=Liz |title=Annual Reviews publishes first multidisciplinary autonomous systems review journal |journal=Annual Reviews News |date=June 1, 2018 |url=https://annualreviewsnews.org/category/journal-news/ |access-date=14 September 2021}}
Life
Leonard graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. degree in mechanical engineering in 1985.
From 1985 to 1989, she worked in the electric power industry.
She graduated from the University of Maryland with a M.S. in 1991 and Ph.D. in 1994, in electrical engineering, under the supervision of P. S. Krishnaprasad.{{cite web |title=Clark School alum Naomi Leonard named MacArthur Fellow |url=http://www.eng.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=269 |website=University of Maryland |access-date=15 September 2021|date=September 27, 2004}}{{cite journal |title=Averaging and Motion Control of Systems on Lie Groups |url=https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/5567 |website=DRUM: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland |year=1994 |access-date=15 September 2021|last1=Leonard |first1=Naomi E. }} She Joined Princeton's faculty as an assistant professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1994.
Research
Leonard's research is in the area of dynamics and control theory.
Her early work involved the development of "energy-shaping" methods of feedback control for single vehicles. It has applications to the control theory of more general mechanical systems.{{cite web |title=Naomi Leonard Engineer : Class of 2004 |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2004/naomi-leonard |website=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=15 September 2021}}
She later expanded her work to the control of multi-agent systems, with an emphasis on collective sensing, decision-making, and motion.{{citation|url=http://mae.princeton.edu/people/faculty/leonard|title=Naomi Ehrich Leonard – Princeton Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering}}. Her work includes the study of multi-agent systems in nature and the application of insights from nature to man-made systems.
Many of Leonard's projects have involved the control of aquatic vehicles. She operates the underwater robotic tank lab at Princeton.
She has worked for a number of years with the Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network.{{cite journal |last1=Flexas |first1=Mar M. |last2=Troesch |first2=Martina I. |last3=Chien |first3=Steve |last4=Thompson |first4=Andrew F. |last5=Chu |first5=Selina |last6=Branch |first6=Andrew |last7=Farrara |first7=John D. |last8=Chao |first8=Yi |title=Autonomous Sampling of Ocean Submesoscale Fronts with Ocean Gliders and Numerical Model Forecasting |journal=Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology |date=March 2018 |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=503–521 |doi=10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0037.1 |bibcode=2018JAtOT..35..503F |doi-access=free }}
In 2006, she led the Adaptive Sampling and Prediction project, which used 10 underwater vehicles to form an automated and adaptive ocean observing system in Monterey Bay.{{citation|url=http://www.princeton.edu/~naomi/publications/2006/FioLeoBhaPalBacFraJOE06.pdf|title=Multi-AUV Control and Adaptive Sampling in Monterey Bay|bibcode=2006IJOE...31..935F|access-date=2017-02-03|last1=Fiorelli|first1=Edward|last2=Leonard|first2=Naomi Ehrich|last3=Bhatta|first3=Pradeep|last4=Paley|first4=Derek A.|last5=Bachmayer|first5=Ralf|last6=Fratantoni|first6=David M.|journal=IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering|year=2006|volume=31|issue=4|page=935|doi=10.1109/JOE.2006.880429|s2cid=4803872}}.{{cite journal |last1=Ramp |first1=S.R. |last2=Davis |first2=R.E. |last3=Leonard |first3=N.E. |last4=Shulman |first4=I. |last5=Chao |first5=Y. |last6=Robinson |first6=A.R. |last7=Marsden |first7=J. |last8=Lermusiaux |first8=P.F.J. |last9=Fratantoni |first9=D.M. |last10=Paduan |first10=J.D. |last11=Chavez |first11=F.P. |last12=Bahr |first12=F.L. |last13=Liang |first13=S. |last14=Leslie |first14=W. |last15=Li |first15=Z. |title=Preparing to predict: The Second Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network (AOSN-II) experiment in the Monterey Bay |journal=Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography |date=February 2009 |volume=56 |issue=3–5 |pages=68–86 |doi=10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.08.013 |bibcode=2009DSRII..56...68R |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223834493 |access-date=15 September 2021}}
In developing algorithms for robot control, she integrates physics and fluid mechanics with research about uncertainty and collective decision-making. She draws upon nature for her models, studying the animal flocking behavior of fish, honeybees, and birds. Her autonomous robotic swarms mimic schools of fish and are used to collect data and explore their marine environment.{{cite news |last1=Song |first1=Juwon |title=Interdisciplinary Panel Dives into Underwater Robotics |url=https://www.aaas.org/news/interdisciplinary-panel-dives-underwater-robotics |access-date=15 September 2021 |work=AAAS |date=21 June 2017}}
{{cite book |last1=McLeish |first1=Tom |title=The poetry and music of science : comparing creativity in science and art |year=2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, United Kingdom |isbn=9780198797999 |edition=First |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cviFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA68 |access-date=15 September 2021}} Naomi also collaborated with dance professor Susan Marshall to integrate the intricate movement patterns of fish schools and bird flocks into choreography. {{Cite journal |last=Daniel |first=Alice |date=April 2015 |title=Academic Toolbox: Full Steam Ahead |url=https://www-jstor-org.mst.idm.oclc.org/stable/43747529?searchText=Naomi+Leonard&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DNaomi%2BLeonard%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A56d3380cd0c74160378c0ddb4d0da844&seq=1 |journal=ASEE Prism |volume=24 |issue=7 |pages=34–36 |jstor=}}
Awards
- 1995 National Science Foundation CAREER Award{{cite news |title=Trustees name nine to tenure |url=https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/99/0419/tenure.htm |access-date=15 September 2021 |work=Princeton Weekly Bulletin |date=April 19, 1999}}
- 2004 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2007 IEEE Fellow{{cite news |title=2007 IEEE CSS Awards Ceremony (Excerpt) |url=https://www.ece.iastate.edu/~rkumar/PUBS/Fellow07Award.pdf |access-date=15 September 2021|page=100 |work=IEEE Controls Systems Magazine |date= 2008}}
- 2011 ASME Fellow{{cite web|url=https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/resourcefiles/aboutasme/honors%20awards/fellows/fellows-all-2014.pdf|title=ASME Fellows list|publisher=ASME|access-date=2022-05-14}}
- 2012 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics{{citation|url=http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2012|title=SIAM Fellows: Class of 2012|access-date=2015-09-09}}.
- 2014 Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control[https://www.ifac-control.org/awards/ifac-fellows IFAC Fellows]
References
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External links
- [http://www.citris-uc.org/events/Collective_Motion Nokia Distinguished Lecture: Naomi Leonard on Collective Motion and Sensing Networks in Nature and Robotics]
- [http://aero.tamu.edu/public-news/seminar-feb-7th-mobile-sensor-networks Seminar Feb. 7th: Dr. Naomi Leonard - Mobile Sensor Networks]
- [http://eventful.com/cambridge_ma/events/lids-colloquium-naomi-leonard-/E0-001-027876713-4 Naomi Leonard] (Princeton) 32-141 LIDS Colloquium
- [http://en.scientificcommons.org/naomi_e_leonard "Naomi E. Leonard", Scientific Commons]
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