RI Seminar
Satyandra K. Gupta
Professor, Maryland Robotics Center, Mechanical Engineering Department and Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland

Towards Simulation-Based Computational Synthesis of Robot Behaviors and Structures

Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also director of the Maryland Robotics Center. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he was a Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute at [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Somchaya Liemhetcharat
Ph.D. Student
Carnegie Mellon University

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 [...]

RI Seminar
Eric Singer
Founder and Director
LEMUR

Robots, Slime, Propane, and Other Ways to Make Strange Musical Instruments

Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Eric Singer is a musician, artist, engineer and programmer and the Founder and Director of LEMUR. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon; a Diploma in Music Synthesis (Magna Cum Laude) from Berklee College of Music; and an MS in Computer Science from New York University. [...]

RI Seminar
Paul Oh
Associate Department Head, Mechanical Engineering
Drexel University

Robotics: Pathways to Transformative Research

Bio: Prof. Paul Oh is the Associate Department Head at Drexel's Mechanical Engineering Department. He received mechanical engineering degrees from McGill (B.Eng 1989), Seoul National (M.Sc 1992), and Columbia (PhD 1999). Honors include faculty fellowships at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (2002), Naval Research Lab (2003), the NSF CAREER award (2004), the SAE Ralph Teetor Award [...]

RI Seminar
Tara Estlin
Senior Member, Artificial Intelligence Group
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

AEGIS Automated Targeting for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Bio: Dr. Estlin is a senior member of the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has over 10 years of experience in developing spacecraft autonomy software. A primary goal of these efforts is to support onboard sequencing and opportunistic science handling for future rover missions. She is currently leading the AEGIS Project, [...]