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Welcome to Lorenzo and Carlos

August 16, 2018
We welcome two new PhD students in the robotics group: Carlos Diaz Alvarenga and Lorenzo Booth.

Best paper award nomination

June 29, 2018
Our paper Multi-Robot Routing Algorithms for Robots Operating in Vineyards by Thomas C. Thayer, Stavros Vougioukas, Ken Goldberg, Stefano Carpin is a finalist for Best Paper Award at IEEE CASE 2018!

Two papers appearing at CASE 2018

May 17, 2018
Two papers related to the RAPID project have been accepted for the IEEE CASE 2018 conference. David Tseng, David Wang, Carolyn Chen, Lauren Miller, William Song, Joshua Viers, Stavros Vougioukas, Stefano Carpin, Juan Aparicio Ojea, Ken Goldberg.  Towards Automating Precision Irrigation:...

Article on IEEE "The Institute"

April 5, 2018
Our RAPID project is featured on "The Institute" by IEEE. Read more here: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-topics/robotics/robots-to-help-californias-grape-growers-conserve-water Our project was also featured here and here.

Four papers to be presented at ICRA 2018

January 12, 2018
Three new papers will be presented at ICRA 2018 in May: T. Thayer, S. Vougioukas, K. Goldberg, S. Carpin. "Routing Algorithms for Robot Assisted Precision Irrigation."  S. Liu, S. Carpin. "Grasp Quality Evaluation with Whole Arm Kinematic Noise Propagation."...

New Paper Accepted on the IEEE Transactions on Robotics

November 7, 2017
Our paper "Coordinated Search With Multiple Robots Arranged in Line Formations" has been accepted for publication on the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. This is the last paper from Andreas Kolling's dissertation defended in 2009.... Click here for the preprint.

PhD Awarded

October 31, 2017
Shuo Liu has successfully defended his PhD thesis, ``Bridging the Gap in Grasp Quality Evaluation and Grasp Planning." Congratulations to Shuo! Click  here for the document.

PhD awarded

August 15, 2017
Shams Feyzabadi has successfully defended his PhD thesis, ``Robot Planning with Constrained Markov Decision Processes." Congratulations to Shams! Click here for the document.

New paper accepted on Autonomous Robots

April 1, 2017
Our new paper "Planning using hierarchical constrained Markov Decision Processes" has been accepted for publication in the Autonomous Robots journal. Click here for the accepted version.

Swarmathon team ready to compete.

March 17, 2017
The UC Merced swarmathon team is finalizing its preparation for the competition taking place at the end of April. Team members Manuel Meraz, Jose Manuel Gonzalez Hermosillo, Jesus Sergio Gonzalez Castellon, Navvaran Mann,  James Nho, Jesus Salcedo, and Carlos Diaz are busy developing ROS code...

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