Matthew Morozov joins robotics@UCMerced as PhD student. Matthew completed his undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley and will be supported by the IoT4Ag grant.
Thomas Thayer successfully defended his PhD dissertation "Planning algorithms for robots operating in vineyards" [pdf]. Congratulations to Thomas for joining the growing group of robotics@ucmerced alumni.
Two papers have been accepted for presentation at IROS 2021:
A Resolution Adaptive Algorithm for the Stochastic Orienteering Problem with Chance Constraints
A Fast Algorithm for Stochastic Orienteering with Chance Constraints
Both papers were coauthored by Thomas Thayer.
Our new paper "Speeding up Routing Schedules on Aisle-Graphs with Single Access" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2021.3082021. The preprint is available in our publications page.
Two papers recently appeared in the Robotics and Automation Letters:
X. Kan, T. Thayer, S. Carpin, K. Karydis. Task planning on stochastic aisle graphs for precision agriculture. In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(2):3287-3294 [pdf]
T. Thayer, S. Carpin....
Prof. Stefano Carpin is the PI for a four-year $1M grant from the USDA/NIFA for the project "Collaborative Resaerch: Mobile Robotic Lab for In-Situ Sampling and Measurement." This project is funded as part of the NSF led National Robotics Initiative and is in...
Stefano Carpin is Co-PI on a new NSF grant part of the CS4All program. Led by Prof. Angelo Kyrilov (PI) and in collaboration with Chelsea Arnold (Co-PI), the two year project aims at improving the pipeline of CS educators in the Central Valley.
The National Science Foundation has awarded an Engineering Research Center (ERC) grant entitled, NSF ERC for the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (IoT4Ag), to a consortium of universities led by Penn along with UC Merced, Purdue, and Florida. Prof. Stefano Carpin serves as co...