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Our new NSF Growing Convergent Research project focusing on Community Embedded Robotics had several spotlights on the news this month, e.g.

Click here for a link to USA Today’s news coverage

See below for video coverage from KVUE:

We can’t believe that we finished teaching the second year of ASE 389 Learning for Dynamics and Controls. Here is the syllabus of the class:

LINK TO SYLLABUS:
shorturl.at/bctHK

We had great project presentations on the prediction of dynamical systems and the control of mechanisms using ML techniques. Check the video below:

 

Dr. Sentis gave a talk at the 2nd Workshop on perceptive locomotion.

https://sites.google.com/view/perceptive-locomotion/

Can robots walk fast in narrow corridors with moving people and objects? In collaboration with Prof. Yuke Zhu we tackle this problem via a hierarchical learning framework dubbed, PRELUDE.

Link to the project’s website: Click here
Link to a pre-print of the paper: Click here
Link to the code: Click here

Here we share our recent research on performing multi-robot search in outdoor and indoor environments.

Link to paper
Link to project website

Congratulations to Minkyu Kim for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation exploring the navigation of single and teams of robots in human environments. (Click here or on the images to access the PDF).

 

Congratulations to Junhyeok Ahn for successfully defending his PhD dissertation. You can access the written dissertation by clicking here.

Congratulations to Jee-Eun for her new paper accepted in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, titled: “Safe Robot Climbing in Unknown Structures”. The work is a collaboration with Tirtha Bandyopadhyay from Australia’s CSIRO Data61 group. While the paper is in press, you can view the video below:

We had a wonderful semester teaching ASE 389 Decision and Control of Human-Centered Robots. You can find the syllabus below:

Link to Class Syllabus

In addition, students pursued projects in human-centered robotics focusing mostly on trajectory generation and control. Here is a video presentation of one of the projects: