Together with Marco Pavone (Stanford University) we are organizing an RSS workshop on "Constrained decision-making in robotics: models, algorithms, and applications." Click here for details and see you in Berkeley!
Our latest article "Anytime merging of appearance-based maps" appeared in the March 2014 issue of Autonomous Robots. The article is mostly based on Gorkem Erinc's PhD thesis.
A revamped website for robotics at UCMerced was launched today. Many thanks to the university communications for the support provided. Great care was taken in migrating all existing content from the old website. If some of the previously available material (papers, code) is no longer accessible,...
Our former PhD student Dr. Andreas Kolling obtained a position as lecturer in the Department of Automation Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK. Congratulations to Andreas!
Our current cooperative agreeement with NIST for Grasping and Simulation for Next-Generation Manufacturing Robots as has been extended for another year.
