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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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November 14, 2024
RISLab and NREC Win Best Paper Award at SSRR 2024
New York, November 14 – Researchers from the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab (RISLab) at the Robotics Institute (RI) and the National Robotics and Engineering Center (NREC) have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) 2024 for their work titled Rapid Quadrotor Navigation in Diverse Environments using an Onboard Depth Camera. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to field robotics, particularly in advancing safety, security, and rescue operations through innovative navigation technology for multirotor vehicles.
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April 30, 2024
Wennie Presents RISL Research to Members of Congress
Wennie presented RISL research to members of Congress and their staff at the “Robotics for a Better Tomorrow: Robotics Showcase and Demo Day” in Washington, D.C. on April 30.
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April 23, 2024
Kshitij Wins 2024 Alan J. Perlis Graduate Student Teaching Award
Congratulations to Kshitij for winning the 2024 Alan J. Perlis Graduate Student Teaching Award by Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science (SCS).
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November 04, 2023
Kshitij's incremental SOGMM paper accepted for publication at IEEE RA-L
Congratulations to Kshitij for his accepted paper to IEEE RA-L! The paper may be accessed here.
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July 04, 2023
RISLab organizing R:SS 2023 Workshop on Gaussian mixture models for inference and robot autonomy
RISLab will be organizing a tutorial titled “Gaussian Mixture Models for Inference and Robot Autonomy” on July 14, 2023. The code, tutorials, and paper have been released. We hope to see you at the workshop in Daegu, ROK!
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June 22, 2023
Kshitij's paper accepted for presentation at IROS 2023!
Kshitij will be presenting “Probabilistic Point Cloud Modeling via Self-Organizing Gaussian Mixture Models” at IROS 2023 in Detroit, MI.
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June 01, 2023
Honorable Mention for IEEE T-RO King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award
RISLab received an honorable mention for the IEEE T-RO King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award. This award is for our work “Autonomous Cave Surveying with an Aerial Robot”, which presents an exploration method in darkness using an aerial robot equipped with a depth camera for mapping, downward-facing camera for state estimation, and forward and downward lights.
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March 01, 2023
Kshitij Goel Successful PhD Thesis Proposal!
Congratulations to Kshitij Goel for a successful PhD thesis proposal! Well done!
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November 10, 2022
Best paper award from SSRR 2022!
Kshitij Goel’s paper on “Hierarchical Collision Avoidance for Adaptive-Speed Multirotor Teleoperation” received the best paper award at SSRR 2022. Congratulations, Kshitij!
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September 20, 2022
Two papers accepted to SSRR 2022!
Two papers were accepted to SSRR 2022! Lead authors Kshitij Goel and Yves Georgy Daoud will present their work on Sevilla, Spain! Congratulations to Yves and Kshitij!
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September 04, 2022
Invited Talk at 'Cave Science Up Close' at Laurel Caverns
Wennie presented RISLab’s recente work at the “Cave Science Up Close” event at Laurel Caverns. More information about the event may be found here.
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August 31, 2022
Wennie Participates in 'Breakthrough in Field Robotics' Panel at DARPA Forward at Colorado State University
Wennie participated in the Breakthrough in Field Robotics panel at DARPA Forward at Colorado State University with Dr. Timothy Chung serving as moderator. Kyle Usbeck, Sebastian Scherer, and Ali Agha also served as panelists.
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September 15, 2021
Article Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Wennie’s journal article on autonomous cave surveying with an aerial robot was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics. A link to the article may be found here.
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September 07, 2021
Cormac O'Meadhra Successfully Completes PhD Proposal
Cormac successfully completed his PhD proposal today. Congratulations, Cormac!
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August 04, 2021
Arjav Desai Defends His PhD Thesis
Arjav successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congratulations, Arjav!
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July 21, 2021
Kshitij Goel Completes the MS Degree
Kshitij successfully defended his MS thesis today. Congratulations, Kshitij!
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June 04, 2021
Finalist for Best Paper Award at DARS
Arjav Desai’s paper on Decentralized Multi-Robot Planning in Dynamic 3D Workspaces was selected as a finalist for DARS. Congratulations, Arjav!
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March 15, 2021
Alex Spitzer Successfully Completes PhD Proposal
Alex successfully completed his PhD proposal today. Congratulations, Alex!
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February 02, 2021
Xuning Yang Successfully Completes PhD Proposal
Xuning successfully completed her PhD proposal today. Congratulations, Xuning!
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December 07, 2020
Arjav Desai Successfully Completes PhD Proposal
Arjav successfully completed his PhD proposal today. Congratulations, Arjav!
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October 07, 2020
ISER 2020 Paper Accepted
Kshitij’s paper on rapid and high-fidelity subsurface exploration with multiple aerial robots was accepted in the 17th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER).
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August 15, 2019
Two Papers Accepted to Field and Service Robotics
Kshitij’s and Wennie’s papers were accepted to the Field and Service Robotics (FSR) conference and will be presented in Tokyo
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