USNA Faculty Profiles

 

Joel M. Esposito
Associate Professor

Weapons and Systems Engineering Department

105 Maryland Ave.
Annapolis, MD 21402
esposito at usna edu

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Degree
Degree

    Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2002
    M.S. University of Pennsylvania, 1999
    B.S. Rutgers University, Magna Cum Laude 1997

Profile
Publications

In 2002, Joel Esposito (CV) joined the Naval Academy as a civilian tenure-track professor.   The Academy is a 4 year undergraduate institution conferring the Bachelors of Science degree in a variety of accredited majors. Historically the academy faculty has maintained a 50-50 civilian-officer ratio.   The ABET Accredited Systems Engineering Major is the among the most popular majors at the Academy.  It is actually an applied control systems department.  At its core is a 5 course sequence in feedback control.  Upper level electives include embedded computing, modern control, communication systems and four courses in robotics.  Pedagogically, his current efforts are focused on developing a new course on autonomous vehicles (land, sea, and air).

Prior to joining the faculty, he spent several years as a graduate research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania working with Vijay Kumar at the GRASP Laboratory.  During those years he worked on a variety of DARPA projects, participated in the development of a programming language, CHARON, and  completed internships at Lockheed Martin, Sandia National Laboratories and Boston University. 

His research focuses on the use of algorithmic and numerical tools for designing and analyzing mobile robot motion controllers.

Academic Genealogy: Ferdinand Freudenstein --> Bernie Roth --> Kenneth Waldron -->  Vijay Kumar

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Research Projects
Forthcoming Publications
  • Cooperative manipulation on the water using swarms of autonomous tugboats (funded by ONR with Matthew Feemster and CAPT Jack Nicholson at USNA)

     

     

  • Maintaining wireless networks of swarm robots (with Thomas Dunbar at Naval Postgraduate School)

   

 

  • Validating complex (hybrid) control systems using  Rapidly Exploring Random Trees (with Jongwoo Kim and Vijay Kumar at the University of Pennsylvania)

 

 
Current Courses
Research Projects

Courses Taught:

  • ES301:  Modeling and simulation
  • ES450:  Robotics
  • ES451:  Mobile Robot Design
  • ES308:  Control Systems Laboratory
  • ES486A:  Autonomous Vehicles

Information on New Autonomous Vehicles Course:

Pedagogical Articles:

Publications
Conferernce Presentations

Swarm Manipulation:

Multi-Robot (Swarm) Motion Planning and Control:

Enhancements to Rapidly Exploring Random Trees with applications to verification:

Numerical Methods for Simulating Hybrid Systems:

For a complete list see CV.

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