Matthew J. Travers - The Robotics Institute - CMU

Matthew J. Travers

Portrait of Matthew J. Travers
Senior Systems Scientist
Home Department: RI
Office: 3207 Newell-Simon Hall
Phone: (412) 268-7943
Administrative Assistant: Peggy A. Martin
Mailing Address

My research focuses on developing the intelligence necessary to enable complex platforms to autonomously interact with and perform meaningful work in complex environments. The task areas on which I am currently focusing include biologically inspired dynamic locomotion and learning, compliant manipulation for agriculture and food preparation, managing uncertainty in human-robot interaction, and field-ready search and rescue robotics. The central ideas that underlie the analytical aspects of my work are drawn from classical control theory, Bayesian inference, practical optimal control, and modern reinforcement learning.

Displaying 68 Publications

2023
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, June, 2023
2022
Workshop Paper, 15th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '22), June, 2022
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2022
2021
Ryan Darnley and Matthew Travers
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-21-58, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2021
Tianyu Wang, Bo Lin, Baxi Zhong, Julian Whitman, Matthew Travers, Daniel Goldman, Grigoriy Blekherman, and Howie Choset
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 3264 - 3270, April, 2021
2020
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC '20), Vol. 2, October, 2020
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3206 - 3212, May, 2020
Nathan D. Kent, Raunaq M. Bhirangi, Matthew J. Travers, and Thomas M. Howard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 8833 - 8839, May, 2020
Tony Dear, Blake Buchanan, Rodrigo Abrajan-Guerrero, Scott David Kelly, Matthew Travers, and Howie Choset
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 598 - 616, April, 2020
Tianyu Wang, Julian Whitman, Matthew Travers, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of APS March Meeting: Session U22: Robophysics II, March, 2020

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Modular Robots

Modular robots offer the potential to build customized robots from a small set of core components called modules. We are interested in the science and engineering of modular robots.