Congratulations to Ben Shaffer for receiving the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
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ScalAR Lab at the Roxborough Public Library
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 see our work at IROS 2023!
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
Special Visitors from the Naval Research Lab!
Today, we had the pleasure of hosting distinguished guests from the renowned Naval Research Laboratory (NRL): Dr. Ira B. Schwartz, Dr. Jason Hinds, and Dr. George Stantchev.
Congratulations to ScalAR Lab award recipients!!
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 hosting Robotics for the Blue Economy and Climate Resiliency Workshop at IROS 2023!
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 our MSE 2023 graduates!!
Congratulations to Jasleen Dhanoa (ROBO MSE) and Bharg Mehta (MEAM MSE)!
Come see our work at ICRA 2022!
Come and see our presentations at ICRA 2022 next week (May 23-27)!
- Tahiya Salam, Sandeep Manjanna, Ani Hsieh, and Gregory Dudek from McGill University will be hosting the Robotics for Climate Change Workshop on Monday in Room 108B. See here for more information!
- Kong Yao Chee will be presenting our KNODE-MPC work in the Motion Control Session (TuA16) on Tuesday morning. His talk is TuA16.07 and starts at 10:45 in Room 122B.
- Gedaliah Knizhnik will be presenting his work with Mark Yim on control for docking Modboats in the Marine Robotics/Localization Session (TuB13) on Tuesday afternoon. His talk is TuB13.01 and starts at 15:30 in Room 116.
- Peihan Li will be presenting our work on controlling Modboats in ocean-like environments in the Marine Robotics/Localization Session (TuB13) on Tuesday afternoon. His talk is TuB13.04 and starts at 15:45 in Room 116.
- Tahiya Salam will be presenting our work on learning transfer operators using kernel methods in the Industrial and Environmental Robotics and Monitoring Session (WeA13) on Wednesday morning. Her talk is WeA13.01 and starts at 10:00 in Room 116.
- Tom Zhang will be presenting our work with learning swarming controllers using KNODE in the Multi-Robot and Swarm Robotics II Session (WeB12) on Wednesday afternoon. His talk is WeB12.09 and starts at 16:20 in Room 118C.
- Come see Jasleen Dhanoa and her MEAM 520 Fall 2022 cohorts demoing their MEAM 520 final project at the GRASP Exhibit Booth in the Exhibit Hall Tue-Thu!
Congratulations and welcome to Griffon McMahon!
Congratulations to Griffon McMahon who recently obtained his ROBO MSE degree. Griffon will be joining the lab in September as a first year PhD student in MEAM.
Congratulations to our MSE graduates!
Congratulations to Li Shen (MEAM MSE) and Yue Mao (MEAM MSE)!