PhD Thesis Defense
PhD Student
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Communication-Efficient Active Reconstruction using Self-Organizing Gaussian Mixture Models

GHC 4405

Abstract: For the multi-robot active reconstruction task, this thesis proposes using Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) as the map representation that enables multiple downstream tasks: high-fidelity static scene reconstruction, communication-efficient map sharing, and safe informative planning. A new method called Self-Organizing Gaussian mixture modeling (SOGMM) is proposed that estimates the model complexity (i.e., number of Gaussian [...]

Faculty Events

RI Faculty Business Meeting

Newell-Simon Hall 4305

Meeting for RI Faculty. Agenda was sent via a calendar invite.

Field Robotics Center Seminar
Nathan Michael
Chief Technology Officer
Shield AI

From Lab to Launch

CIC CIC Buuilding Conference Room 1, LL Level

Bio: Nathan Michael is Shield AI’s Chief Technology Officer and a former Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). At CMU, Nathan was the Director of the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab, a research lab dedicated to improving the performance and reliability of artificially intelligent and autonomous systems that operate in [...]

MSR Thesis Defense
MSR Student
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Vision-Language Models for Hand-Object Interaction Prediction

Rashid Auditorium - 4401 Gates and Hillman Centers

Abstract: How can we predict future interaction trajectories of human hands in a scene given high-level colloquial task specifications in the form of natural language? In this paper, we extend the classic hand trajectory prediction task to two tasks involving explicit or implicit language queries. Our proposed tasks require extensive understanding of human daily activities [...]

Special Events

Robotics Institute Winter Party

All Robotics Institute Faculty. Staff, Students, and Visitors are invited to attend this event. Please join us for food, beverages, and casual conversation with colleagues. A calendar invite including details will be sent closer to the event.

Faculty Events

RI Faculty Business Meeting

Newell-Simon Hall 4305

Meeting for RI Faculty. Agenda was sent via a calendar invite.

RI Event

Robotics Institute Picnic

Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for the 2025 Robotics Institute Picnic! More information and RSVP e-vite to follow as we get closer to the event.