RI Faculty Business Meeting
Newell-Simon Hall 4305Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
Heuristic Search Based Planning by Minimizing Anticipated Search Efforts
Abstract: We focus on relatively low dimensional robot motion planning problems, such as planning for navigation of a self-driving vehicle, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and footstep planning for humanoids. In these problems, there is a need for fast planning, potentially compromising the solution quality. Often, we want to plan fast but are also interested in [...]
Robotic Cave Exploration for Search, Science, and Survey
1305 Newell Simon HallAbstract: Robotic cave exploration has the potential to create significant societal impact through facilitating search and rescue, in the fight against antibiotic resistance (science), and via mapping (survey). But many state-of-the-art approaches for active perception and autonomy in subterranean environments rely on disparate perceptual pipelines (e.g., pose estimation, occupancy modeling, hazard detection) that process the same underlying sensor data in different [...]