MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Kevin Pluckter – MSR Thesis Talk

NSH 4305

Title: Precision UAV Landing in Unstructured Environments Abstract: The autonomous landing of a drone is an important part of autonomous flight. One way to have a high certainty of safety in landing is to return the drone to the same location it took-off from. Current implementations of the return-to-home functionality fall short when relying solely [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Zimo Li – MSR Thesis Talk

NSH 4305

Title: Joint Surface Reconstruction from Monocular Vision and LiDAR   Abstract: In recent years, dense reconstruction gains popularity because of its broad applications in inspection, mapping, and planning. Cameras or LiDARs are generally deployed for 3D dense reconstruction. However, current reconstruction pipelines based on cameras or LiDARs have significant limitations in achieving an accurate and [...]

Special Events
Sam Wang
Robotics Software Engineer, DJI

DJI Visit & Demo

Gates Hillman Centers 3rd Floor Patio

Really interested in aerial robotics? You are invited to meet members of the DJI technical team and human resources. This Friday, July 12th, Sam Wang (CMU MRSD '16) Robotics Software Engineer, DJI, will be giving a public demo and short talk. This visit is part of the 3rd annual DJI – CMU RISS aerial robotics [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Bhavan Jasani – MSR Thesis Talk

NSH 4305

Title: Automatic detection of human affective behavior in dyadic conversations Abstract: Emotion is communicated through face, voice, and body motion in interpersonal contexts. Yet, most approaches to automatic detection emphasize a single modality (especially face or voice), ignore social context, and focus on well-defined signs of emotion (e.g., smile).  This thesis addresses multimodal, interpersonal emotion [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Aaron Roth – MSR Thesis Talk

NSH 4305

Title: Structured Representations for Behaviors of Autonomous Robots   Abstract: Autonomous robot behavior can be captured in many ways: as code, as modules of code, in an unstructured form such as a neural net, or in one of several more structured formats such as a graph, table, or tree. This talk explores structured representations that [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Travers Rhodes – MSR Thesis Talk

NSH 4305

Title: Vision and Improved Learned-Trajectory Replay for Assistive-Feeding and Food-Plating Robots   Abstract: Food manipulation offers an interesting frontier for robotics research because of the direct application of this research to real-world problems and the challenges involved in robust manipulation of deformable food items. In this talk, we focus on the challenges associated with robots manipulating [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
PhD Student
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Kevin Zhang – MSR Thesis Talk

NSH 3305

Title: Leveraging Multimodal Sensory Data for Robust Cutting   Abstract: Cutting food is a challenging task due to the variety of material properties across food items. In addition, different events occur during the slicing process that need to be monitored and detected for robust execution, such as when a knife has completely cut through a [...]

PhD Thesis Proposal

Sensor Planning for Large Numbers of Robots

NSH 1305

Abstract: Teams of aerial sensing robots can provide valuable situational awareness to first responders during disasters and emergencies by locating victims, mapping environments, identifying hazards, and locating gas sources. While individual sensing tasks may feature a variety of goals, many tasks will be time-sensitive such as after a widespread disaster or due to imminent danger [...]

MSR Speaking Qualifier
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

MSR Thesis Talk – Edward Ahn

NSH 4305

Title: Toward Safe Reinforcement Learning in the Real World   Abstract: Control for mobile robots in slippery, rough terrain at high speeds is difficult. One approach to designing controllers for complex, non-uniform dynamics in unstructured environments is to use model-free learning-based methods. However, these methods often lack the necessary notion of safety which is needed [...]

Special Events

CMU RISS – UBTECH Workshop

3305 Newell-Simon Hall

As part of the RISS-UBTECH Workshop, UBTECH will be doing a Public Demo & Company Overview this Friday. For more information contact: Rachel Burcin or Ziqi Guo