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Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Naomi Ehrich Leonard

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
71
Citations
21136
World Ranking
353
National Ranking
160

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2012 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the control of underwater vehicles and the coordination of ensembles of independent agents, and for fundamental work in understanding the organization of animal schools and swarms.
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2007 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to control of underwater vehicles

Overview

Naomi Ehrich Leonard is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, including Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy, with substantial contributions to the subfields of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Computer Networks and Communications, Management Science and Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, and Sociology and Political Science.

The primary research topics Leonard has explored involve Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research, Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models, and Model Reduction and Neural Networks.

Recent publications include:

  • Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics With Tunable Sensitivity, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • The nonlinear feedback dynamics of asymmetric political polarization, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecological and behavioral mechanisms of density-dependent habitat expansion in a recovering African ungulate population, 2021, Ecological Monographs
  • Collective intelligence as a public good, 2022, Collective Intelligence
  • Fast and Flexible Multiagent Decision-Making, 2023, Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Leonard has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Alessio Franci, Anastasia Bizyaeva, Udari Madhushani, Rodolphe Sepulchre, and Shinkyu Park.

Their work often appears in prominent venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The scientist has received multiple recognitions, such as being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013, a SIAM Fellow in 2012 with a citation for contributions to control of underwater vehicles and coordination of ensembles of agents as well as understanding the organization of animal schools and swarms, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2011, and an IEEE Fellow in 2007 for contributions to control of underwater vehicles.

Best Publications

  • Virtual leaders, artificial potentials and coordinated control of groups

    N.E. Leonard;E. Fiorelli

  • Cooperative control of mobile sensor networks:Adaptive gradient climbing in a distributed environment

    P. Ogren;E. Fiorelli;N.E. Leonard

  • Collective Motion, Sensor Networks, and Ocean Sampling

    N.E. Leonard;D.A. Paley;F. Lekien;R. Sepulchre

  • Multi-AUV Control and Adaptive Sampling in Monterey Bay

    E. Fiorelli;N.E. Leonard;P. Bhatta;D.A. Paley

  • Controlled Lagrangians and the stabilization of mechanical systems. I. The first matching theorem

    A.M. Bloch;N.E. Leonard;J.E. Marsden

  • Stabilization of Planar Collective Motion: All-to-All Communication

    R. Sepulchre;D.A. Paley;N.E. Leonard

  • Model-based feedback control of autonomous underwater gliders

    N.E. Leonard;J.G. Graver

  • Stabilization of Planar Collective Motion With Limited Communication

    R. Sepulchre;D.A. Paley;N.E. Leonard

  • Controlled Lagrangians and the stabilization of mechanical systems. II. Potential shaping

    A.M. Bloch;Dong Eui Chang;N.E. Leonard;J.E. Marsden

  • Brief paper: Autonomous rigid body attitude synchronization

    Alain Sarlette;Rodolphe Sepulchre;Naomi Ehrich Leonard

  • A convergent dynamic window approach to obstacle avoidance

    P. Ogren;N.E. Leonard

  • Coordinated control of an underwater glider fleet in an adaptive ocean sampling field experiment in Monterey Bay

    Naomi Ehrich N.E. Leonard;Derek D.A. Paley;Russ R.E. Davis;David D.M. Fratantoni

  • Oscillator Models and Collective Motion

    D.A. Paley;N.E. Leonard;R. Sepulchre;D. Grunbaum

  • Vehicle networks for gradient descent in a sampled environment

    R. Bachmayer;N.E. Leonard

  • Cooperative Filters and Control for Cooperative Exploration

    Fumin Zhang;N.E. Leonard

  • Cooperative Control for Ocean Sampling: The Glider Coordinated Control System

    D.A. Paley;F. Zhang;N.E. Leonard

  • Motion control of drift-free, left-invariant systems on Lie groups

    N.E. Leonard;P.S. Krishnaprasad

  • Stability of a bottom-heavy underwater vehicle

    Naomi Ehrich Leonard

  • Controllability and motion algorithms for underactuated Lagrangian systems on Lie groups

    F. Bullo;N.E. Leonard;A.D. Lewis

  • Formations with a Mission: Stable Coordination of Vehicle Group Maneuvers

    Petter Ögren;E Fiorelli;N.E. Leonard

  • Autonomous rigid body attitude synchronization

    A. Sarlette;R. Sepulchre;N.E. Leonard

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek A. Paley
Derek A. Paley University of Maryland, College Park
Rodolphe Sepulchre
Rodolphe Sepulchre University of Cambridge
Jerrold E. Marsden
Jerrold E. Marsden California Institute of Technology
Anthony M. Bloch
Anthony M. Bloch University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ming Cao
Ming Cao University of Groningen
Fumin Zhang
Fumin Zhang Georgia Institute of Technology
Perinkulam S. Krishnaprasad
Perinkulam S. Krishnaprasad University of Maryland, College Park
Simon A. Levin
Simon A. Levin Princeton University
Alex Olshevsky
Alex Olshevsky Boston University
Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University

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