Seminar Series

Spring 2024 Series

04/22/24, Chen Li, Johns Hopkins University, "Animal and robot locomotion in complex 3-D terrain"
04/12/24, Maxim Likhachev, Carnegie Mellon University, "Towards Fast and Reliable Search-based Planning with Learning"
02/02/24, Michael Otte, University of Maryland, "Recent work from the Motion and Teaming Lab: Efficiently replanning in response to changes in the environment and selected results on multi-robot collaboration"

10/13/23, Debdipta Goswami, Ohio State University, "Cooperative Multi-UAV Swarm in an Uncertain Environment: A Markovian Mutual Information Based Approach"
10/27/23, Ji Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, "Autonomous Exploration, Navigation, and the Full Autonomy System"
11/10/23, Mark Yim, University of Pennsylvania, "Size issues in swarm and modular reconfigurable robotics"

3/23/23, Monroe Kennedy, Stanford University, "Collaborative Robotics: From Dexterity to Teammate Prediction"
3/27/23, Sergiy Yakovenko, West Virginia University, "Locomotor control: from theories and models to applications in robotics"
4/3/23, John Dolan, Carnegie Mellon University, "Socially Cooperative Autonomous Driving Behaviors"
4/17/23, Zak Kassas, Ohio State University, IEEE AESS Distinguished Lecture "No GPS, No Problem: Exploiting Signals of Opportunity for Resilient and Accurate Autonomous Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments"

10/3/22, Gavin Hall, Gigafactory 5, "Tesla Gigafactory AI"
10/17/22, Sebastian Scherer, Carnegie Mellon University, "Towards Robust Localization and Mapping in Challenging Conditions"
10/24/22, Roger D. Quinn, Case Western Reserve University, "Bio robotics at Case Western Reserve University: Past, Present and Future"

4/18/22, Dr. Jason Rife , Tufts University, " Safe GPS and LIDAR Navigation for Self-Driving Cars"
4/25/22, Dr. Yan Wan, The University of Texas at Arlington, "Networked UAVs

09/22/21, Dr. Yannis Kantaros, University of Pennsylvania and Washington University St. Louis, "Safe Robot Autonomy in Unknown Environments"
10/6/21, Dr. Ella Atkins, University of Michigan, "Environment Mapping and Urgent Landing Planning for Low-Altitude UAS Operations"
10/13/21, Dr. Mathieu Joerger, Virginia Tech, "Sensor Safety Monitoring for Robotic Vehicle Navigation"
11/3/2021, Dr. Negar Mehr, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

01/25/21, Dr. Tim Barfoot, University of Toronto, "Long-Term Navigation, (Where) Can Machine Learning Help?"
02/22/21, Dr. Victoria Webster-Wood, Carnegie Mellon University
03/08/21, Dr. Joshua Vander Hook, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
03/15/21, Dr. Soon-Jo Chung, California Institute of Technology
03/29/21, Dr. Terry Fong, NASA Ames Research Center
04/19/21, Dr. Mykel Kochenderfer, Stanford University

9/08/20, Dr. Luca Carlone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Spatial Perception for Robots and Autonomous Vehicles: Certifiable Algorithms and Human-level Understanding"
9/22/20, Dr. Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin, "Efficient Robot Skill Learning: Grounded Simulation Learning and Imitation Learning from Observation"
9/29/20, Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Inria, "Resilient Robots with Data-efficient Reinforcement Learning"
10/13/2020, Dr. Geoff Hollinger , Oregon State University, "Marine Robotics: Planning, Decision Making, and Human-Robot Learning"
10/20/2020, Dr. Grace Gao, Stanford University, "Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicle Localization with Deep Learning"
11/10/2020, Dr. Wei Ren, University of California, Riverside, "Distributed Dynamic State Estimation in Sensor Networks: Consistency, Confidence, and Convergence"

1/16/20, Dr. Kostas Alexis, University of Nevada, Reno, "Field-hardened Robotics Autonomy".

09/10/19, Dr. Michael Kaess, Carnegie Mellon University, “Factor Graphs for Robot Perception”.
10/01/19, Dr. Ani Hsieh, University of Pennsylvania, "Creating Intermittently Connected Mobile Robotic Networks: A Dynamical Systems Approach"
10/15/19, Dr. Rafael Fierro, University of New Mexico, "Aerial Robots: From Load Transportation to Flying Pendulum"

01/15/19, Dr. Todd Humphreys, University of Texas at Austin, “Deep Urban Unaided Precise GNSS Vehicle Positioning”.
02/26/19, Dr. Kenneth Ricks, University of Alabama, “Lessons Learned from Astrobotic in the NASA Robotics Mining Competition”.
03/05/19, Dr. David Cappelleri, Purdue University, “Microrobots to Micro Aerial Vehicles: Robots Interacting with the Environment”.
03/26/19, Dr. David Wettergreen, Carnegie Mellon University, “Applying Robotics to Scientific Observation and Exploration”.

09/11/18, Dr. John Raquet, Air Force Institute of Technology, “UAVs vs/ Natural Autonomous Vehicles (NAVs) – Are We Closing the Gap?”.
10/16/18, Dr. Thomas Howard, University of Rochester, “Learning Adaptive Models for Motion Planning and Human-Robot Interaction”.
10/23/18, Dr. Aaron Dollar, Yale University, “Mechanical Intelligence in Robotic Manipulation: Towards Human-level Dexterity in Robotic and Prosthetic Hands”.
10/30/18, Dr. Jack Langelaan, Penn State University, “Algorithms, Implementation and Flight Test Results of the AutoSOAR Platform”.
11/13/18, Dr. Jingang Yi, Rutgers University, “Modeling and Control of Unstable Physical Human-Machine Interactions”.
11/27/18, Dr. Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University, “Robust Autonomy”.