Field Robotics Center Seminar

Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Dr. Bassi is an engineer, researcher, entrepreneur and consultant with a broad experience in automation and business intelligence areas. He graduated from Universidad de Chile (BSc EE, PEE and MSc EE) and University of Southern California (PhD Computer Science). He has held academic positions at the U. of Chile (Dept. Industrial [...]

Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Somchaya Liemhetcharat is a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute, under Prof. Manuela Veloso. He is interested in multi-robot coordination, in particular the areas of information sharing, role assignment and modeling of capabilities.Abstract: We consider a set of static towers with communication capabilities, but not within range of each other due [...]

Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: William “Red” Whittaker is the Fredkin professor at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He served on the National Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board. Science Digest named Whittaker one of the top [...]

Event Location: GHC2109

Event Location: NSH3305Bio: Geoffrey A. Hollinger is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory and Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is currently interested in adaptive sensing and distributed coordination for robots operating with limited communication. He has also worked on multi-robot search at Carnegie Mellon University, [...]

Event Location: GHC2109Bio: Stephen is a Project Scientist at the Robotics Institute and was a PostDoc at the RI from 2008-2010. Prior to arriving at the RI he completed his PhD in Australia conducting the research jointly at the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation and the University of Queensland. He has worked on a [...]

Event Location: NSH1507Bio: Alberto Speranzon received a "Laurea" degree in Computer Engineering from University of Padova, Italy, in November 2000. In May 2006 he received a Ph.D. in Automatic Control from the School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Between May 2006 and October 2006 he was post-doc at the same institute. [...]

Event Location: 3305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Professor Ana Paiva is a research group leader at INESC-ID and an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. She is well known in the area of Virtual Agents, Artificial Intelligence Applied to Education and Affective Computing. After her PhD in the UK (University of Lancaster), she [...]

Event Location: GHC2109Bio: Heather Jones is a PhD student at the Robotics Institute. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, she earned bachelors degrees in engineering and computer science from Swarthmore College and worked for nearly three years at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Abstract: This talk presents complementary flyover and surface exploration for reconnaissance of planetary point [...]