Faculty Events
RI Council Meeting
RI Council is a leadership group made up of the Director of RI, Academic Program Leads, Committee Chairs, and members at large as appointed by the Director. RI Council meets generally once a week to discuss department business.
Carnegie Mellon University
Generalization for Robot Learning In The Wild
Abstract: How can we train a robot that can generalize to perform thousands of tasks in thousands of environments? This question underscores the holy grail of robot learning, more generally machine learning, research. Current AI systems are incredibly specific in that they only perform the tasks they are trained for and are miserable at generalization. [...]
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Five Traps for Robots in Human Environments….And How to Avoid Them
Abstract: Robotics today is moving beyond fixed environments and into human spaces like homes, restaurants, and hospitals. In these new spaces, robots will necessarily have to interact with people. In some sense, every recent robotics problem is partly a human-robot interaction problem. Thus, the field of HRI can offer insights to the broader robotics community [...]
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
An autonomous navigation system that could hopefully support RI research
I will show a few videos as the key results of our research in the last several years. These results span the scope of state estimation, mapping, autonomous navigation, and exploration. While these results illustrate separate pieces of work, the underlying modules contribute to a final, integrated autonomy system in the end. I will show a simulation [...]
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
NREC Study Group & Recent Projects
This talk will describe the NREC study process that has been developed as a lower cost of entry work product for potential partners. This is a process that is available for anyone on campus that wants to help their sponsors create viable system concepts and potential development costs before committing to a full development program. [...]
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
Junior Faculty PhD Admissions Process Presentation
A presentation lead by David Wettergreen regarding the PhD Admission process.
Making AI trustworthy and understandable by clinicians
Abstract: Understandable-AI techniques facilitate to use of AI as a tool by human experts, giving humans insight into how AI decisions are made thereby helping experts discern which AI predictions should or shouldn’t be trusted. Understandable techniques may be especially useful for applications with insufficient validation data for regulatory approval, for which human experts must remain the final decision [...]
Perceiving Objects and Interactions in 3D
Abstract: We observe and interact with myriad of objects in our everyday lives, from cups and bottles to hammers and tennis rackets. In this talk, I will outline our group’s efforts towards understanding these objects and our everyday interactions with them in 3D. I will first focus on scaling 3D prediction for isolated objects across [...]
Geometry Processing and Differential Geometry
Abstract: Basic representations for three-dimensional geometry have a profound effect on what can be achieved downstream, in a variety of disciplines (physical simulation, computational design, geometric learning, etc.). In this talk I will discuss recent efforts in our group to revisit fundamental choices in the way we represent digital geometry, and solve geometric equations. The guiding [...]
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.