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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.

New Ph.D. student joins robotics at UC Merced

August 15, 2015
We welcome Andres Torres Garcia to robotics@UCM. Andres is supported by a UC Mexus-CONACYT doctoral fellowship and will work on our CITRIS grant for robotics in agriculture.

RA-L Editorial Membership

June 1, 2015
I am serving as associate editor for the newly establishd IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

New robot joins Robotics@UC Merced

May 1, 2015
We received a new Husky robot from Clearpath robotics. The robot is acquired thanks to the recent CITRIS grant  "Combined Remote/Mobile Sensing Platform for Precision Agriculture in California".

People and Robots

April 23, 2015
CITRIS unveils the new initiative People and Robots for which I am serving in the faculty executive committee.

New CITRIS project

March 6, 2015
We gratefully acknwoledge support from CITRIS for our new project "Combined Remote/Mobile Sensing Platform for Precision Agriculture in California". This new research is in collaboration with professor David Smart from UC Davis. 

Three papers accepted for ICRA 2015

January 31, 2015
The following papers have been accepted for ICRA 2015: S. Feyzabadi, S. Carpin. "HCMDP: a Hierarchical Solution to Constrained Markov Decision Processes" S. Liu, S. Carpin. "Fast Grasp Quality Evaluation with Partial Convex Hull Computation". S. Liu, S...

T-ASE editorial board membership

January 19, 2015
I became associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE).

Paper on WiFi localization accepted

January 2, 2015
Our paper "Real-Time WiFi Localization of Heterogeneous Robot Teams Using an Online Random Forest" has been accepted for publication in the Autonomous Robots journal. Click [here] for a pre-print.

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