Plenary Talks

The MCMC´2006 program includes six Plenary Talks given by distinguished speakers. The first set of three Plenary Talks is centered around the themes of Ship Control, Marine Navigation, and Cooperative Control of Multiple Vehicles. The second set departs from the more classical set-up that is commonly adopted in conferences: it aims to bring an historical perspective to the research and development efforts in the general area of navigation, guidance, and control of marine craft. Selected speakers will brief us on the Past, Present, and Future of marine craft, starting with the challenging problems of navigation in the 15th-16th centuries and leading to a vision of what lays ahead of us as autonomous marine craft steadily become the tool par excellence for ocean exploration and exploitation.

List of Invited Speakers

Dr. James Bellingham

Principal Technologist
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
Moss Landing, CA , USA
http://www.mbari.org/staff/jgb/

Prof. Anthony Healey

Chairman, and Director for the
Center for UAV Research (Mechanical and
Astronautical Engineering Department)
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA
http://web.nps.navy.mil/~me/healey.html

Captain Malhão Pereira

Portuguese Navy
Vice-Secretary, "Academia de Marinha", Lisbon, Portugal
Researcher on History of Navigation
MSc on History of Portuguese Expansion and the Discoveries

Dr. Tristan Perez / Prof. Thor Fossen

Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures(CESOS)
Norwegian University of Science and Tehcnology
Trondheim, NORWAY
http://www.cesos.ntnu.no/~perez

Prof. Louis Whitcomb

Department of Mechanical Engineering and
Department of Computer Science
G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, USA
http://robotics.me.jhu.edu/~llw/

Dr. Dana Yoerger

Associate Scientist
Deep Submergence Laboratory
Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA, USA
http://www.dsl.whoi.edu/DSL/dana/