Congratulations to Ben Shaffer for receiving the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

Our miniature Autonomous Surface Vehicles (mASVs) were successfully taken on the road to the Roxborough Public Library. Wanying Long, Eric Sigg, Victoria Edwards, and Dr. Thales C. Silva shared with the local community all the steps necessary for building an mASV. At the end, participants were able to test drive the mASVs. Below are project leads Wanying Long and Eric Sigg interacting with students and a group shot of the mASV team.

Come and see our presentations at IROS 2023 next week in Detroit, MI (Oct 1 – Oct 5)!

• Monday Oct 2, 2023 (0842-0848 )Ariella Mansfield is presenting “Energy-Efficient Team Orienteering Problem in the Presence of Time-Varying Ocean Currents”, Room 142ABC, Session: Motion and Path Planning I . Poster session: 10/2/2023, Hall E, Track 09 (1000 – 1130).
• Wednesday Oct 4, 2023 (0836 – 0842): KongYao Chee is presenting “Enhancing Sample Efficiency and Uncertainty Compensation in Learning-Based Model Predictive Control for Aerial Robots”, Room 330B, Session: Model Learning. Poster session: 10/4/23, Hall E, Track 17 (1000 – 1130).
• Wednesday Oct 4, 2023 (1506-1512): Victoria Edwards is presenting “On Collaborative Robot Teams for Environmental Monitoring: A Macroscopic Ensemble Approach”, Room 321, Session: Multi Robot and Distributed Robot Systems II . Poster session: 10/4/23, Hall E Track 15 (1530 – 1700).
• Thursday Oct 5, 2023 (0830 – 1730) Victoria Edwards, Thales Costa Silva and Ani Hiseh from UPenn in collaboration with Bert Tanner and Kleio Baxevani from UDel are hosting the workshop: ” Robotics for the Blue Economy and Climate Resiliency”.  Join us for exciting speakers, poster presentations, networking events, and much more! Further information about the workshop can be found here. Room 258

From left to right:

• Ariella Mansfield, MEAM Outstanding Service Award and Dean’s Doctoral Advisory Award
• Jasleen Dhanoa, ROBO Outstanding Academics, ROBO Outstanding Service
• M. Ani Hsieh Principal Investigator
• Victoria Edwards, MEAM Outstanding Teaching Award

We are thrilled to announce that we are co-organizing an IROS 2023 workshop titled: Robotics for the Blue Economy and Climate Resiliency. 

Details about the workshop can be found here.

Organizers: M. Ani Hsieh, Herbert Tanner, Kleio Baxevani, Victoria Edwards, and Thales Costa Silva

Congratulations to Jasleen Dhanoa (ROBO MSE) and Bharg Mehta (MEAM MSE)!