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2021/2/28 — Workshop and papers at ICRA 2021:
- Workshop Robot Swarms in the Real World: From Design to Deployment, organized together with Siddharth Mayya, Roderich Gross and Vijay Kumar, will be held in an online format on May 31 or June 4 (TBA). Check out the workshop website for more information!
- Paper accepted on data-driven adaptive task allocation for heterogeneous multi-robot teams (with Yousef Emam, pre-print available on arXiv)
- RA-L paper on the automation of the Robotarium will be presented at the conference
2021/2/13 — New website is live!
2021/2/9 — Paper The Robotarium: Automation of a Remotely Accessible, Multi-Robot Testbed accepted for publication in RA-L
2020/12/4 — Paper on constraint learning with limited duration barrier functions (with Motoya Ohnishi) accepted for publication in Automatica (pre-print available on arXiv)
2020/10/3 — Paper on safe and passive robot teleoperation (with Jeremy Cai) accepted for presentation at HFR 2020 (pre-print available on arXiv)
2020/9/11 — Paper on interactive multi-robot painting (with María Santos and Siddharth Mayya) accepted for publication in Frontiers in Robotics and AI (section Robotic Control Systems). Check out articles about the work on BBC News and New Scientist!
2020/6/27 — Paper on resilient task allocation accepted for presentation at the Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Coordination at RSS 2020 (paper available on the workshop website and video on YouTube)
2020/6/17 — The SlothBot is making itself comfortable in its new home, the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Check out the new video!
2020/6/17 — Project What can robots teach us about the Covid-19 pandemic got funded by the Embassy of the United States in Rome through the 2020 Alumni Small Grants program
2020/6/16 — Paper on integral control barrier functions (with Aaron Ames, Yorai Wardi and Magnus Egerstedt) accepted for publication in L-CSS (pre-print available on arXiv)
2020/2/27 — Paper on communication constrained distributed estimation accepted at the 2020 IFAC World Congress. Check out the video on YouTube!
2020/1/21 — 3 papers accepted at ICRA 2020:
- Enhancing Game-Theoretic Autonomous Car Racing Using Control Barrier Functions (with Mingyu Wang and Mac Schwager)
- Adaptive Task Allocation for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams with Evolving and Unknown Robot Capabilities (with Yousef Emam, Siddharth Mayya and Addison Bohannon, pre-print available on arXiv). Check out this article about the work on TechXplore!
- A set-theoretic approach to multi-task execution and prioritization (with Siddharth Mayya, Mario Selvaggio, María Santos, and Cristian Secchi, pre-print available on arXiv and video on YouTube)
- Additionally, our T-RO paper on safe learning with applications to brushbot navigation has been selected for presentation at the conference
2020/1/20 — Paper on persistification of robotic tasks accepted for publication in T-CST (pre-print available on arXiv)
2019/6/20 — 2 papers accepted at IROS 2019:
- A Study of a Class of Vibration-Driven Robots: Modeling, Analysis, Control and Design of the Brushbot (with Siddharth Mayya, pre-print available on arXiv)
- Non-Uniform Robot Densities in Vibration Driven Swarms Using Phase Separation Theory (with Siddharth Mayya, pre-print available on arXiv)
2019/6/17 — 2 papers accepted at MRS 2019:
- Passivity-Based Decentralized Control of Multi-Robot Systems With Delays Using Control Barrier Functions (with Jeremy Cai and Junya Yamauchi, pre-print available on arXiv)
- Decentralized Minimum-Energy Coverage Control for Time-Varying Density Functions (with María Santos and Siddharth Mayya, nominated for the outstanding paper award)
2019/6/7 — The SlothBot is featured on Tech Briefs, Popular Mechanics and many other online blogs. Check out the videos on YouTube and on IEEE Spectrum Video Friday!
2019/3/15 — Tutorial Control Barrier Functions: Theory and Applications, organized together with Aaron Ames, Samuel Coogan, Magnus Egerstedt, Koushil Sreenath and Paulo Tabuada, will be held at ECC 2019 in Napoli, Italy (pre-print of the tutorial paper available on arXiv)
2019/2/20 — Paper on optimal task allocation for heterogeneous robot teams (with Siddharth Mayya) accepted at ECC 2019 (pre-print available on arXiv)
2019/2/19 — Swarm of 30 brushbots ready to be deployed! Thanks to Jeremy Cai and Yousef Emam) for the help in giving them life!
2019/1/27 — Paper on constraint-driven control of multi-robot systems accepted at ACC 2019 (pre-print available on arXiv)
2019/1/26 — Paper on coverage control for robots constrained on curves (with María Santos) accepted at ICRA 2019
2019/1/26 — Paper on the design of the SlothBot (with Yousef Emam) accepted for publication in RA-L (will be presented at ICRA 2019)