PhD Thesis Defense
PhD Student
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Whisker-Inspired Sensors for Unstructured Environments

NSH 4305

Abstract: Robots lack the perception abilities of animals, which is one reason they can not achieve complex control in outdoor unstructured environments with the same ease as animals. One cause of the perception gap is the constraints researchers place on the environments in which they test new sensors so algorithms can correctly interpret data from [...]

RI Seminar
Nils Napp
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University

Abstraction Barriers for Embodied Algorithms

1403 Tepper School Building

Abstract: Designing robotic systems to reliably modify their environment typically requires expert engineers and several design iterations. This talk will cover abstraction barriers that can be used to make the process of building such systems easier and the results more predictable. By focusing on approximate mathematical representations that model the process dynamics, these representations can [...]

RI Seminar
Axel Krieger
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering

RI Seminar with Axel Krieger

1403 Tepper School Building

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