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May 06, 2025

Paper acceped for presentation at ISER 2025!
Congratulations to Wennie and her team for their accepted paper to the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Experimental Robotics! The paper may be accessed here.
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March 22, 2025

RISLab Co-organizes RSS 2025 Workshop on Gaussian Representations for Robot Autonomy: Challenges and Opportunities
RISLab and MIT researchers will be organizing a workshop titled “Gaussian Representations for Robot Autonomy: Challenges and Opportunities” on July 25, 2025. We are soliciting contributions for the workshop, which are due June 1, 2025. For more information, please see our website: https://sites.google.com/view/gmm-workshop-rss25.
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December 06, 2024

Kshitij Goel Defends PhD Thesis!
Congratulations to Kshitij Goel for a successful PhD thesis defense! Well done! His thesis focuses on communication-efficient active multi-robot reconstruction using self-organizing Gaussian mixture models. The thesis document is available here. A video recording of the defense talk is available on YouTube.
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Active Research Projects

Rapid Navigation in Diverse Environments

This research innovates techniques for rapid navigation in forests, caves, and other cluttered, unstructured environments.

Large-Scale Decentralized Multirobot Active Search

This research project leverages reinforcement learning to enable decentralized multirobot active search over large scales.

Collaborative Human-Robot Exploration via Implicit Coordination

This research seeks to enable human-robot collaborative exploration of a-priori unknown enviornments using implicit coordination.

Scalable and Adaptive Aerial Robotic Exploration

This research project develops mapping and planning methods for multirotors to enable memory-efficient exploration while generating a high-fidelity map of the environment.

Assistive Adaptive-Speed Multirotor Teleoperation

This research project seeks to improve assistance to humans operating multirotors through narrow gaps and tunnels.

Autonomous Cave Surveying

This research program develops a method for cave surveying in complete darkness with an autonomous aerial vehicle equipped with a depth camera for mapping, downward-facing camera for state estimation, and forward and downward lights.