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Postdoctoral opening

September 15, 2022
We have one postdoctoral opening for the IoT4Ag project. If you are interested, please apply here by October 15th, 2022.

New article appearing on Robotics and Autonomous Systems

September 2, 2022
Our paper "Trust as a metric for auction-based task assignment in a cooperative team of robots with heterogeneous capabilities" has just benen accepted for publication in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal. Here's the official link to the pre-print. This is joint work with...

New paper appearing on IEEE TASE

July 6, 2022
A new paper realted to the RAPID project just appeared in the IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering: Simulating Polyculture Farming to Learn Automation Policies for Plant Diversity and Precision Irrigation. See IEEEXplore for more details.

Welcome to Matthew Morozov

August 20, 2021
Matthew Morozov joins robotics@UCMerced as PhD student. Matthew completed his undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley and will be supported by the IoT4Ag grant.

Congratulations to Thomas Thayer

July 20, 2021
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 articles to appear at IROS 2021

June 30, 2021
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.

New paper appearing on IEEE Transactions on Robotics

June 12, 2021
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.  

RAL papers

April 15, 2021
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....

New MRPI Grant

January 14, 2021
UC Merced robotics is part of the new MRPI grant "LACA: Labor and Automation in California Agriculture". Click here for more details.

UC Merced Robotics welcomes a new member

January 1, 2021
We welcome Azin Shamshiragan to robotics@ucmerced. Azin will work on the new NRI project funded by the USDA.

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