Corina Barbalata
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
R.O. Martin Lumber Company Professorship
PhD, Heriot-Watt ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2017)
Marine Technology Society (MTS)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Expertise
Marine robotics • autonomous systems • physics and data driven dynamic modeling • model-based control systems • underwater perception and algorithms.
Biographical Sketch
Corina Barbalata is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, at Louisiana State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, United States. She is the co-director of the iCORE Laboratory and a fellow in the Coastal Studies Institute at LSU. She received a BS degree from Transilvania ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Brasov, Romania, in 2011. In 2013 through the VIsion and RoBOTics (VIBOT) program, she got her double MS degree in Computer Vision and Robotics from Heriot-Watt ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø (Scotland, UK) and ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Burgundy (France). She received her PhD from the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø (Edinburgh, UK) in 2017, and between 2017 and 2019 she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering department at ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Michigan, United States. Dr. Barbalata and her group are working on proposing solutions for real-world robotics applications with social and environmental merits, through the combination of theoretical, computational, and experimental methods for the design new reactive capabilities for autonomous robotic systems working in complex and dynamic environments. Her research interests are in physics- and data-driven modeling of vehicle-manipulator systems, development of model-based control structures for autonomous robotic systems, and scene understanding and interpretation for robotic navigation. Her application domains are marine robotics and industrial automation.