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PhD Thesis Proposal
Matt Zucker
PhD Student
Robotics Institute
A Data-Driven Approach to High Level Planning
Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: Motion planning for complex systems such as legged robots and mobile manipulators has proven to be a difficult task for a variety of reasons: not only must planning software consider a high-dimensional configuration space, but it must reason dynamically about how to apply forces to the real world. Accomplishing such planning [...]
Boris Sofman
Carnegie Mellon University
Online Learning Techniques for Improving Robot Navigation in Unfamiliar Domains
Event Location: Newell Simon Hall 1305Abstract: Many mobile robot applications require robots to act safely and intelligently in complex unfamiliar environments with little structure and limited or unavailable human supervision. As a robot is forced to operate in an environment that it was not engineered or trained for, various aspects of its performance will inevitably [...]