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CASE papers

August 17, 2025
We are presenting three papers at the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE):  "Solving Stochastic Orienteering Problems with Chance Constraints Using a GNN Powered Monte Carlo Tree Search." coauthored by Marcos Zuzuarregui  "...

Three papers accepted for ICRA 2025

January 27, 2025
Three papers from our group will appear at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta in May.  Congratulations to Marcos and our alumni Azin and Lorenzo for coauthoring the accepted papers.

Lorenzo Booth defends his PhD thesis

September 26, 2024
Lorenzo Booth successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "Informative planning and robotic exploration for surveying environmental fields."

Azin Shamshirgaran defends her PhD thesis

August 7, 2024
Azin Shamshirgaran defended her PhD thesis, "Multirobot environmental monitoring with budget constraints using reinforcement learning".

Carlos Diaz Alvarenga defends his PhD thesis

June 26, 2024
Carlos Diaz Alvarenga succesfully defended his PhD thesis, "On Patrolling Security Games, Modeling Agents, and Computing Viable Strategies." In Fall 2024, Carlos will join Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as assitant professor in the Computer Engineering Department.

Four papers accepted at ICRA 2024

January 29, 2024
Four papers from our group will appear at ICRA 2024 in Japan. Moreover, our recently appeared RAM paper will be presented at ICRA, too. Congratulations to Azin and Carlos for coauthoring two papers each.

New RAM article

December 21, 2023
Our latest work in robotics for precision ag was just published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. The article Robotic Assessment of a Crop’s Need for Watering: Automating a Time-Consuming Task to Support Sustainable Agriculture (freely accessible via open access) features...

New UC Grant

November 20, 2023
Our proposal  An Artificial Intelligent Irrigation System for Climate Resilient Agriculture has been selected for funding as part of the UC Merced Fall 2023 Climate Action Research Seed Fund Competition. This is joint work with Wan Du (PI) and Safeeq Khan at UC Merced and Khaled Bali...

New NSF Grant

October 1, 2023
Our latest project called "Elevating Farm Worker-Robot Collaborations in Agri-Food Ecosystems" has been funded by the NSF as part of the Future of Work program. Click here for more details.

Welcome to Marcos Zuzuarregui

August 20, 2023

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