Robotics

Awardees

2023

Decentralized Visual Mapping of Cluttered Scenes Using a Team of Low-Cost Mobile Robots

Ashis G. Banerjee, associate professor, industrial & systems engineering and mechanical engineering

Hierarchical Framework for Scalable Multi-Agent Autonomous Mobility

Lillian Ratliff, associate professor, electrical & computer engineering

Sam Burden, associate professor, electrical & computer engineering

Damage Level Assessment in Packages through Transformer-Based Neural Networks and Sensitivity Analysis

Mehmet Kurt, assistant professor, mechanical engineering

Robot Pack-a-thon: Packing Arbitrary Objects with Fabricatable Flexural Manipulators

Nadya Peek, assistant professor, human-center design & engineering

Theoretically Principled Representation Learning for Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning

Simon Shaolei Du, assistant professor, computer & science engineering

Maryam Fazel, Moorthy Family Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

2022

Adaptive Grasping and Object Manipulation using Visual and Tactile Feedback
Xu Chen, McMinn Endowed Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Shifting From Reactive to Proactive Safety: Legible Contingency Planning for Prosocial Interactions
Karen Leung, assistant professor, aeronautics and astronautics

Dynamic Stiffness for Rapid Gripping Using Metamaterials
Jeffrey Lipton, assistant professor, mechanical engineering

Design-Aware 3D Scene Interpretation
Adriana Schulz, assistant professor, computer science and engineering

Self-Supervised Learning of Part-Whole Hierarchies for Semantic Scene Understanding, with Applications to Representing Densely Packed Bins and Mobile Robotics
Rajesh P. N. Rao, CJ and Elizabeth Hwang Professor of Computer Science

Fleet Planning of Autonomous Cart Systems in Modern Fulfillment Centers
Chiwei Yan, assistant professor, industrial and systems engineering