ECE 290 Seminar: Speaker – Dr. Jaeyoung Lim “Autonomous Information Gathering using Long Endurance Aerial Vehicles”

Presenter: Jaeyoung Lim, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Agile Robotics and Perception Lab at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of California, Berkeley

Description: Monitoring large-scale environments is essential for natural hazard management, environmental process observation, and search and rescue operations. Yes, meaningful coverage of the target environment demands vast infrastructure and dense sensor networks. Unlike stationary sensors, robotic systems can navigate autonomously and actively select where measurements are taken. Autonomous systems that can reason on observations would enable efficient, targeted observation without vast infrastructure requirements.
In this seminar, we explore the challenges of enabling autonomous information-gathering using long-endurance aerial vehicles. Using avalanche monitoring in mountainous terrain as a motivating application, we examine key problems in information quantification and safe navigation for deploying autonomous systems in complex, real-world environments.

Bio: Jaeyoung Lim is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Agile Robotics and Perception Lab at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. in Robotics at ETH Zurich in 2024, where he focused on enabling safe navigation and autonomous information gathering using long-endurance aerial vehicles in challenging mountainous environments. Beyond his research, Jaeyoung is actively involved in the PX4 Autopilot project as a component maintainer for simulation. He received his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich in 2019 and his B.Sc. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University in 2016.

Hosted by: Professor Soumya Bose, ECE Department

Zoom Link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97975378707?pwd=ljcgaCfhMmhZ88Vt5dqQUBVQRjehOx.1