D.Sc.
George Washington University
Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics
Office: 229C Hammond
Phone: 814-865-1172
E-mail: lnl@psu.edu
Web site: http://www.personal.psu.edu/lnl/
Research Interests
- Computational and biological intelligence
- Intelligent Systems
- Software Engineering
- Computational Science
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Unmanned Air Vehicles
My research involves computational and biological intelligence. We are taking two approaches: spiking neural networks and cognitive architectures. We are working to develop spiking neural networks for massively parallel computers, using the object-oriented Java computer language. Currently we are training them using STDP to recognize characters and images. These networks have very complex behavior and are the basis for human intelligence, learning, and consciousness. We have also implemented cognitive architectures (e.g. Soar) on wheel- and leg-based mobile robots. The integration of sensors and motors with cognitive architectures opens up a new era in robotics. The combination of neural networks and cognitive architectures offer promising new opportunities. In understanding human intelligence, we hope to be able to build better autonomous mobile robots, as well as increase our understanding of human intelligence.
Representative Publications
Long, Lyle N. and Gupta, Ankur, "Spiking Neural Networks with STDP-based Learning for Image Processing," submitted to the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, Jan., 2008.
Hanford, Scott D., Janrathitikarn, Oranuj, and Long, Lyle N., "Control of a Six-Legged Mobile Robot Using the Soar Cognitive Architecture," submitted to the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, Jan., 2008.
Hanford, Scott D. and Long, Lyle N.; "Evaluating Cognitive Architectures for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles," 22nd Conf. on AI, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Vancouver, Canada, July 22-26, 2007.
Miller, J.A., Paul D. Minear, Albert F. Niessner, Jr., Anthony M. DeLullo, Brian R. Geiger, Lyle N. Long, and Joseph F. Horn, "Intelligent Unmanned Air Vehicle Flight Systems," Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication (JACIC), Vol. 4, May, 2007.
Gupta, A. and Long, L.N., "Character Recognition using Spiking Neural Network," IEEE Neural Network Conference, Orlando, Florida, Aug. 12-17, 2007.
Long, L.N., Scott D. Hanford, Oranuj Janrathitikarn, Greg L. Sinsley, and Jodi A. Miller, "A Review of Intelligent Systems Software for Autonomous Vehicles," IEEE Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.
Gregory L. Sinsley, Jodi A. Miller, Lyle N. Long, Brian R. Geiger, Albert F. Niessner, Jr., and Joseph F. Horn "An Intelligent Controller for Collaborative Unmanned Air Vehicles," IEEE Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.
Long, L. N. and Gupta, A., " Scalable Massively Parallel Artificial Neural Networks," AIAA Paper No. 2005-7168, AIAA InfoTech@Aeropace Conference, Sept., 2005, Wash., D.C.
Honors
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2007-2008
Distinguished Professor, Penn State University, 2006
AIAA Fellow, 2005
Editor-in-Chief and Founder: Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, AIAA, Aug. 2002 Jan. 2006.
Outstanding Research Award, from Penn State Engineering Society, 1996.
IEEE Computer Society Gordon Bell Prize, 1993
Lockheed Award for Research, 1987
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