PhD Thesis Defense
Shervin Javdani
Carnegie Mellon University

Acting under Uncertainty for Information Gathering and Shared Autonomy

GHC 8102

Abstract: Acting under uncertainty is a fundamental challenge for any decision maker in the real world. As uncertainty is often the culprit of failure, many prior works attempt to reduce the problem to one with a known state. However, this fails to account for a key property of acting under uncertainty: we can often gain [...]

Student Talks
Supreeth Achar
Carnegie Mellon University

Active Illumination for the Real World

GHC 8102

Abstract: Active illumination systems use a controllable light source and a light sensor to measure properties of a scene. For such a system to work reliably across a wide range of environments it must be able to handle the effects of global light transport, bright ambient light, interference from other active illumination devices, defocus, and [...]

PhD Thesis Defense
Nathan Brooks
Carnegie Mellon University

Situational Awareness and Mixed Initiative Markup for Human-Robot Team Plans

NSH 1305

Abstract: As robots become more reliable and user interfaces (UI) become more powerful, human-robot teams are being applied to more real world problems. Human-robot teams offer redundancy and heterogeneous capabilities desirable in scientific investigation, surveillance, disaster response, and search and rescue operations. Large teams are overwhelming for a human operator, so systems employ high level [...]

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Shobhit Srivastava

High-Fidelity Perceptual Representations via Hierarchical Gaussian Mixture Models

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Shobhit Srivastava is an M.S. student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Nathan Michael. The primary focus of his research is to enable high-fidelity and efficient multimodal environment modeling on mobile autonomous systems to enable efficient inference with respect to the environment. He previously received his [...]