Jose Susa Rincon joins the robotics lab as a PhD student in EECS. Jose comes with a BSc and MSc degree in engineering and will work on rapid multirobot deployment as part of our ongoing work within the MAST CTA.
The National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) awarded a $175K for the third year of the project "Grasping and Simulation for Next-Generation Manufacturing Robots". Cumulative funding for this three year project tops $584K.
Together with Marco Pavone, I am guest editing a special issue of the Autonomous Robots journal on "Constrained decision-making in robotics: models, algorithms, and applications". This is a followup of our RSS workshop. The submission deadline is November 15, 2014. Click ...
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!
