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, [...]
Minimalistic Dynamic Climbing Locomotion
Event Location: GHC 4405Abstract: Dynamics in locomotion is highly useful, as can be seen in animals and is becoming apparent in robots. For instance, chimpanzees are dynamic climbers that can reach virtually any part of a tree and even move to neighboring trees, while sloths are quasistatic climbers confined only to a few branches. Although [...]
Where robots meet the brain: The intersection of robotics and neurological disorders
Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Bambi Brewer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, where she teaches in the Prosthetics and Orthotics program. She received her PhD and MS from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and 2002, respectively. She [...]
Reducing Redundancies in the Search Space for Planning with Incomplete Information
Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: Planning with uncertainty in the model of the environment is a common, and difficult, problem. Typically, any differences in the past observations between two states causes the planner to plan for them as completely different states. This work is based on the fact that not all past observations are relevant to [...]
Distributed Planning for Large Teams
Event Location: NSH 1507Abstract: In many domains, teams of hundreds of agents must cooperatively plan to perform tasks in a complex, uncertain environment. Naively, this requires that each agent take into account every teammates' state, observation, and choice of action when making decisions about its own actions. This results in a huge joint policy space [...]