Field Robotics Center Seminar
Target Tracking, Geolocation, and Search with Small UAVs
Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: Michael is a Ph.D student at the Robotics Institute.Abstract: Cooperative surveillance using teams of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a fruitful area of study given the many real-world applications and open research problems it offers. In this talk I will present our vision for such teams in an air-ground collaboration context [...]
Global Scan-Matching for Incremental Map Construction Using Line Features
Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: Don Burnette is a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute. Abstract: I propose a laser based odometry algorithm which utilizes line feature based scan matching to determine the pose of a robot in an unknown, structured environment, while incrementally building a map of that environment. The algorithm is tested on a variety of data sets, using different types of laser range scanners, in various real world environments. The algorithm incrementally generates line-feature based maps in real-time as the robot moves throughout the environment, [...]
Classification of Mars Terrain Using Multiple Data Sources
Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: Alan Kraut is a student in the Robotics Institute, conducting research under David Wettergreen. His current research interests focus on the application of machine learning to computer vision for space robotics. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College in 2008.Abstract: Data about Mars are being [...]
Design and Development of a Multi-Hop Routing Protocol for Distributed Sensing Applications
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Abhinav Valada is a Research Assistant in the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He is working on the Distributed SensorWebs project under Dr. George Kantor. His current research interests focus on algorithms for multi-agent coordination, scheduling and control. He received a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Instrumentation [...]
Self-Aware Helicopters: A New Era for Vertical Flight
Event Location: GHC 2109Bio: Lyle specializes in perception systems for flying vehicles of all sizes. He has worked as a Research Engineer at the CMU Field Robotics Center for the past five years. He has also worked on perception and mobility systems for robots at JPL and IBM. At Caltech, he completed a B.S. in [...]
Mission control of autonomous vehicles based on time logic framework
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 [...]
Map-Merging-Free Connectivity Positioning for Distributed Robot Teams
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 [...]
Landing the Lunar X-Prize
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 [...]