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New NRI Project

December 1, 2016
We obtained a new grant from the USDA as part of the National Robotics Initiatitve. The project Rapid: Robot Assisted Precision Irrigation Delivery is in collaboration with UC Berkeley and UC Davis and aims at developing co-robotic systems to support grape growers. Here is the official press...

New NSF NRT-DESE grant

September 9, 2016
We received a $2,921,681 grant from the NSF for the new project NRT-DESE Intelligent Adaptive Systems: training computational and data-analytics skills for academia and insdustry. This is joit work with Ramesh Rabasubramaniam (PI), Suzanne Sindi (co-PI), and Chris Kello (co-PI). The official...

New NSF MRI grant

September 7, 2016
We received a new NSF  $182,806 grant, "MRI: Acquisition of robotic tools for studying brain, behavior and embodied cognition." This is joint work with cognitive scientists Ramesh Balasubramaniam and Mike Spivey. The official press release can be found here.

UC Merced participates in NASA competition

August 31, 2016
After a six-year lull, the UC Merced robotics group returns to robotic contests. We have just been accepted for the 2017 NASA swarmathon physical competition (more details here). Stay tuned for developments. Current UCM undergraduate students interested in participating are encouraged to contact...

UC Merced Robotics grows

August 26, 2016
We welcome to our group a new Ph.D. student, Thomas Thayer. Thomas joins UC Merced robotics after having obtained his BSs from UC Merced.

Promotion to Full Professor

July 1, 2016
Effective July 1, 2016, Stefano Carpin has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor.

Two papers accepted at CASE 2016

June 15, 2016
These two papers have been accepted for publication at IEEE CASE: S. Liu, S. Carpin, Kinematic Noise Propagation and Grasp Quality Evaluation. D.V. Gealy, S. McKinley, M. Guo, L. Miller, S. Vougioukas, J. Viers, S. Carpin, K. Goldberg, Co-Robotic Device for Automated Tuning of Emitters to...

Two papers accepted to ICRA 2016

January 15, 2016
Both papers we submitted to ICRA 2016 have been accepted. "Multi-objective Planning with Multiple High Level Task Specifications", coauthored by Shams Feyzabadi. "Risk Aversion in Finite Markov Decision Processes Using Total Cost Criteria and Average Value at Risk,"...

Paper appears on RAM magazine

December 9, 2015
Our paper Grasping the performance: Facilitating Replicable Performance Measures via Benchmarking and Standardized Methodologies was just published on the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. The paper is co-authored by Joe Falco and Karl Van Vyk at NIST and presents results obtained through our...

Special issue published

October 20, 2015
Our special issue on Constrained Decision Making in Robotics appeared in the December 2015 issue of the Autonomous Robots journal.

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