RI Seminar
Randy Beard
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Brigham Young University

Autonomy and Cooperation for Micro Air Vehicles

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Randal W. Beard received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1993, the M.S. degree in mathematics in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1995, all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. [...]

RI Seminar
Bilge Mutlu
PhD Candidate in Human-Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon HCII

Designing Social Behavior for Humanlike Robots

Event Location: 1305 NSHBio: Bilge Mutlu is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on designing social behavior for socially interactive systems—particularly, humanlike robots—in an integrated, interdisciplinary process in which he combines knowledge and methods from cognitive, social, computer science, and design, and understanding the cognitive, social, [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
David Silver
PhD Candidate
Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Imitation Learning for Autonomous Navigation in Complex Natural Terrain

Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: David Silver is a PhD candidate at the Robotics Institute, researching robust mobile robot navigation systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and a M.S. in Robotics from CMU. Previously, he has worked with the TSLAM and Subterranean Robotics groups at CMU, and the UPI program at NREC. He is [...]