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Vijay Kumar Vijay Kumar

Nemirovsky Family Dean, SEAS

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Vijay studies collective behaviors in biological and robotic systems. He and his group design novel architectures, create abstractions for systems of interacting individuals, and develop new algorithms for cooperating robots. The overarching themes in his research include modeling nature and developing bio-inspired architectures and algorithms, understanding group/individual dynamics, and the design and composition of controllers for robust, scaleable autonomous systems. Vijay’s key challenges include operation in unstructured, dynamic environments, integration of control, communication and perception, and scaling down to smaller sizes with limited actuation, sensing, and computational resources. *Note: Dean Kumar is unable to take on any new Robotics MSE advisees at this time.

Research Areas

Dynamical Systems and Control

Machine Learning/AI and Autonomous Systems

Multi-robot and Multi-agent Systems

Robot and Mechanism Design

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Publications

Vision Transformers for End-to-End Vision-Based Quadrotor Obstacle Avoidance

Publisher ICRA

Symskill: Symbol and Skill Co-Invention for Data-Efficient and Real-Time Long-Horizon Manipulation

Publisher CoRL

Deep Learning for Optimization of Trajectories for Quadrotors

Publisher IEEE

Design and Evaluation of Motion Planners for Quadrotors in Environments with Varying Complexities

Publisher ICRA

Learning to Explore Indoor Environments usingAutonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles

Publisher ICRA

3D Active Metric-Semantic SLAM

Publisher IEEE

Learning Local Urban Wind Flow Fields From Range Sensing

Publisher IEEE

Trajectory Optimization with Global Yaw Parameterization forField-of-View Constrained Autonomous Flight

Publisher IROS

Multi-Robot Target Tracking with Sensing andCommunication Danger Zones

Publisher DARS

Monocular Event-Based Vision for Obstacle Avoidance with a Quadrotor

Publisher CoRL

Don’t Yell at Your Robot:Physical Correction as the Collaborative Interface for Language Model Powered Robots

Publisher HRI Workshop

TOPPQuad: Dynamically-Feasible Time-Optimal Path Parametrization for Quadrotors

Publisher IEEE

Active Metric-Semantic Mapping by Multiple Aerial Robots

Publisher ICRA

Multi-Robot Coordination and Cooperation with Task Precedence Relationships

Publisher ICRA

The Role of Symmetry in Constructing Geometric Flat Outputs for Free-Flying Robotic Systems

Publisher ICRA

EvDNeRF: Reconstructing Event Data with Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields

Publisher WACV

TreeScope: An Agricultural Robotics Dataset for LiDAR-Based Mapping of Trees in Forests and Orchards

Publisher ICRA

Enabling Large-scale Heterogeneous Collaboration with Opportunistic Communications

Publisher ICRA

Trajectory Planning for the Bidirectional Quadrotor as a Differentially Flat Hybrid System

Publisher IEEE

A Compositional Approach to Certifying Almost Global Asymptotic Stability of Cascade Systems

Publisher IEEE

Adaptive Sampling of Latent Phenomena using Heterogeneous Robot Teams (ASLaP-HR)

Publisher IEEE

SEER: Safe Efficient Exploration for Aerial Robots using Learning to Predict Information Gain

Publisher ICRA

Any Way You Look At It: Semantic Crossview Localization and Mapping with LiDAR

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Dynamically Feasible Task Space Planning for Underactuated Aerial Manipulators

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Fair Robust Assignment using Redundancy

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Control of Quadrotors Using the Hopf Fibration on SO(3)

Publisher Springer

Cooperative team strategies for multi-player perimeter-defense games

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Coordinate-Free Dynamics and Differential Flatness of a Class of 6DOF Aerial Manipulators

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

DC-CAPT: Concurrent Assignment and Planning of Trajectories for Dubins Cars

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Dense R-Robust Formations on Lattices

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Experimental Evaluation and Characterization of Radioactive Source Effects on Robot Visual Localization and Mapping

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Graph Neural Networks for Motion Planning

Publisher arXiv

Graph policy gradients for large scale robot control

Publisher Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)

IMU-Based Inertia Estimation for a Quadrotor Using Newton-Euler Dynamics

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Information Theoretic Active Exploration in Signed Distance Fields

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Mine Tunnel Exploration Using Multiple Quadrupedal Robots

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Mobile Wireless Network Infrastructure on Demand

Publisher arXiv

Multi-robot trajectory generation for an aerial payload transport system

Publisher Springer

PST900: RGB-Thermal Calibration, Dataset and Segmentation Network,

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Reactive Temporal Logic Planning for Multiple Robots in Unknown Environments

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Self-Reconfiguration in Response to Faults in Modular Aerial Systems

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

SLOAM: Semantic lidar odometry and mapping for forest inventory

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

The Tiercel: A Novel Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicle That Can Map the Environment by Flying into Obstacles

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Trajectory optimization on manifolds with applications to quadrotor systems

Publisher SAGE Publications

Adaptive Partitioning for Cooperative Multi-agent Perimeter Defense

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Evaluating Robust, Perception Based Controllers with Quadrotors

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Feedback Enhanced Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

IMU-Based Pedestrian Dead Reckoning with Learned Motion Model

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

A theoretically sound upper bound on the triplet loss for improving the efficiency of deep distance metric learning

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Analysis of ground effect for small-scale uavs in forward flight

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Autonomous inspection of a containment vessel using a micro aerial vehicle

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Autonomous Precision Pouring From Unknown Containers

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Autonomous vehicle for mapping store layout

Publisher US Patent

Catalytic antimicrobial robots for biofilm eradication

Publisher Science Robotics

Cellular expression through morphogen delivery by light activated magnetic microrobots

Publisher Springer

Cooperative autonomous search, grasping, and delivering in a treasure hunt scenario by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles

Publisher Journal of Field Robotics

Decentralization of Multiagent Policies by Learning What to Communicate

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Decentralized Goal Assignment and Safe Trajectory Generation in Multi-Robot Networks via Multiple Lyapunov Functions

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Design and control of aerial modules for inflight self-disassembly

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Dfinenet: Ego-motion estimation and depth refinement from sparse, noisy depth input with rgb guidance

Publisher arXiv

Dfusenet: Deep fusion of rgb and sparse depth information for image guided dense depth completion

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Graph policy gradients for large scale unlabeled motion planning with constraints

Publisher arXiv

Guest Editorial: Special section on “Foundations of resilience for networked robotic systems

Publisher Springer

Inertial Yaw-Independent Velocity and Attitude Estimation for High-Speed Quadrotor Flight

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Inverse Optimal Planning for Air Traffic Control

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Large scale model predictive control with neural networks and primal active sets

Publisher arXiv

Learning Safe Unlabeled Multi-Robot Planning with Motion Constraints

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Mavnet: An effective semantic segmentation micro-network for mav-based tasks

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

ModQuad-Vi: A Vision-Based Self-Assembling Modular Quadrotor

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Monocular Camera Based Fruit Counting and Mapping with Semantic Data Association

Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Nanoliter Fluid Handling for Microbiology Via Levitated Magnetic Microrobots

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Online estimation of geometric and inertia parameters for multirotor aerial vehicles

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Pst900: Rgb-thermal calibration, dataset and segmentation network

Publisher arXiv

Real Time Dense Depth Estimation by Fusing Stereo with Sparse Depth Measurements

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Realization of -Robust Formations in the Plane Using Control Barrier Functions

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Resilient backbones in hexagonal robot formations

Publisher Springer

Team composition for perimeter defense with patrollers and defenders

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

The open vision computer: An integrated sensing and compute system for mobile robots

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Trajectory Tracking with Velocity Constraints Using Control Barrier Functions

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vision-based Multi-MAV Localization with Anonymous Relative Measurements Using Coupled Probabilistic Data Association Filter

Publisher arXiv

3D Micromolding of Small-Scale Biological Robots

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

A complete algorithm for generating safe trajectories for multi-robot teams

Publisher Springer

A flying gripper based on cuboid modular robots

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

A Survey on Aerial Swarm Robotics

Publisher IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Aggressive Flight With Suspended Payloads Using Vision-Based Control

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Anytime Planning for Decentralized Multirobot Active Information Gathering

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Approximating Explicit Model Predictive Control Using Constrained Neural Networks

Publisher IEEE American Control Conference (ACC)

Autonomous flight

Publisher Annual Reveiws

Autonomous flight and cooperative control for reconstruction using aerial robots powered by smartphones

Publisher SAGE Publications

Autonomous navigation of micro aerial vehicles using high-rate and low-cost sensors

Publisher Springer

Autonomous robotic exploration using a utility function based on Rényi’s general theory of entropy

Publisher Autonomous Robots

Cell Tracking with Deep Learning and the Viterbi Algorithm

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Collaborative multiagent reinforcement learning in homogeneous swarms

Publisher International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Controlled Delivery of Signaling Molecules using Magnetic Microrobots

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Dense 3-d mapping with spatial correlation via gaussian filtering

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Design guarantees for resilient robot formations on lattices

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Experiments and open-loop control of multiple catalytic microrobots

Publisher Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics (JMBR)

Experiments in fast, autonomous, gps-denied quadrotor flight

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Fast, autonomous flight in GPS-denied and cluttered environments

Publisher Journal of Field Robotics

Fast, autonomous flight in GPS‐denied and cluttered environments

Publisher Journal of Field Robotics

Geometric Control and Trajectory Optimization for Bidirectional Thrust Quadrotors

Publisher Springer

Guest Editorial Special Section on Aerial Swarm Robotics

Publisher IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Hold Or take Optimal Plan (HOOP): A quadratic programming approach to multi-robot trajectory generation

Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)

Human Motion Capture Using a Drone

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Inertial Velocity and Attitude Estimation for Quadrotors

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Inertial velocity and attitude estimation for quadrotors: Supplementary material

Publisher UPenn Departmental Papers (ESE)

Learning Decentralized Controllers for Robot Swarms with Graph Neural Networks

Publisher arXiv

Learning Sample-Efficient Target Reaching for Mobile Robots

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Local-game decomposition for multiplayer perimeter-defense problem

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Localization, Grasping, and Transportation of Magnetic Objects by a Team of MAVs in Challenging Desert-Like Environments

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Final Annual Report for Program Capstone

Publisher Army Research Laboratory Adelphi United States

Model predictive trajectory tracking and collision avoidance for reliable outdoor deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Modelling and Simultaneous Control of Multiple Catalytic Microrobots

Publisher Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics (JMBR)

ModQuad: The flying modular structure that self-assembles in Midair

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Nuclear environments inspection with micro aerial vehicles: Algorithms and experiments

Publisher Springer

OpenUAV: a UAV testbed for the CPS and robotics community

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Robust Fruit Counting: Combining Deep Learning, Tracking, and Structure from Motion

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Robust Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry for Fast Autonomous Flight

Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Robustness meets deep learning: An end-to-end hybrid pipeline for unsupervised learning of egomotion

Publisher arXiv

Scalable centralized deep multi-agent reinforcement learning via policy gradients

Publisher arXiv

Search-Based Motion Planning for Aggressive Flight in SE(3)

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Semi-dense visual-inertial odometry and mapping for quadrotors with swap constraints

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Spatio-temporally smooth local mapping and state estimation inside generalized cylinders with micro aerial vehicles

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Special Issue of Applied Mechanics Reviews in Collaboration With the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Publisher Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR)

Special issue on high-speed vision-based autonomous navigation of uavs

Publisher Journal of Field Robotics

Stochastic 2-d motion planning with a POMDP framework

Publisher arXiv

The gap in CS, mulling irrational exuberance

Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

The grand challenges of Science Robotics

Publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

The Multivehicle Stereo Event Camera Dataset: An Event Camera Dataset for 3D Perception

Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Toward Soft Micro Bio Robots for Cellular and Chemical Delivery

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Towards Differentially Private Aggregation of Heterogeneous Robots

Publisher Springer

Towards search-based motion planning for micro aerial vehicles

Publisher arXiv

Trajectory Optimization On Manifolds with Applications to SO (3) and R3XS2.

Publisher Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)

Triangular networks for resilient formations

Publisher Springer

U-net for mav-based penstock inspection: an investigation of focal loss in multi-class segmentation for corrosion identification

Publisher arXiv

Unsupervised Deep Homography: A Fast and Robust Homography Estimation Model

Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

VIO-Swarm:: A swarm of 250g quadrotors

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Visual Inertial Odometry Swarm: An Autonomous Swarm of Vision-Based Quadrotors

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

A decentralized algorithm for assembling structures with modular robots

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

A Macroscopic Model for Differential Privacy in Dynamic Robotic Networks

Publisher arXiv

A Modular Folded Laminate Robot Capable of Multi Modal Locomotion

Publisher International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)

A multi-robot control policy for information gathering in the presence of unknown hazards

Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

An aerial phytobiopsy system: Design, evaluation, and lessons learned

Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

Automated System for Semantic Object Labeling with Soft-Object Recognition and Dynamic Programming Segmentation

Publisher IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)

Autonomous Flight for Detection, Localization, and Tracking of Moving Targets With a Small Quadrotor

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Autonomous Navigation and Mapping for Inspection of Penstocks and Tunnels With MAVs

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Calibration-free network localization using non-line-of-sight ultra-wideband measurements

Publisher ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)

Concurrent Control of Mobility and Communication in Multirobot Systems

Publisher IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Control of multiple microrobots with multiscale magnetic field superposition

Publisher International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS)

Cooperative prediction of time-varying boundaries with a team of robots

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Cooperative transportation using small quadrotors using monocular vision and inertial sensing

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Counting Apples and Oranges With Deep Learning: A Data-Driven Approach

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Detecting, localizing, and tracking an unknown number of moving targets using a team of mobile robots

Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)

End-to-end navigation in unknown environments using neural networks

Publisher arXiv

Energetics in robotic flight at small scales

Publisher Interface Focus

Energy efficiency of trajectory generation methods for stop-and-go aerial robot navigation

Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

Flight trajectory tracking and recovery in presence of large disturbances

Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

Formations for Resilient Robot Teams

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Improving quadrotor trajectory tracking by compensating for aerodynamic effects

Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

Index of papers published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and presented at IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2017 (IROS’17)

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Intrusion detection for stochastic task allocation in robot swarms

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Magnetic microrobots for microbiology

Publisher Microbiorobotics: Biologically Inspired Microscale Robotic Systems: Second Edition

Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) 2016 Annual Report forProgram Capstone

Publisher US Army Research Laboratory Adelphi United States

Neural network memory architectures for autonomous robot navigation

Publisher arXiv

Opportunities and challenges with autonomous micro aerial vehicles

Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Optimal paths for polygonal robots in SE(2)

Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)

Planning Dynamically Feasible Trajectories for Quadrotors Using Safe Flight Corridors in 3-D Complex Environments

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Precise dispensing of liquids using visual feedback

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Privacy-preserving vehicle assignment for mobility-on-demand systems

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Rapid Deployment of Mobile Robots Under Temporal, Performance, Perception, and Resource Constraints

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Resilient consensus for time-varying networks of dynamic agents

Publisher IEEE American Control Conference (ACC)

Resilient Flocking for Mobile Robot Teams

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Robust aerial robot swarms without collision avoidance

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Search-based motion planning for quadrotors using linear quadratic minimum time control

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Simultaneous control of spherical microrobots using catalytic & magnetic actuation

Publisher International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS)

SUAS for deployment and recovery of an environmental sensor probe

Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

System for deployment of groups of unmanned micro aerial vehicles in GPS-denied environments using onboard visual relative localization

Publisher Autonomous Robots

The Impact of Diversity on Optimal Control Policies for Heterogeneous Robot Swarms

Publisher IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Three-dimensional manipulation of teams of quadrotors

Publisher US Patent

A column generation approach for optimized routing and coordination of a UAV fleet

Publisher IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)

A design environment for the rapid specification and fabrication of printable robots

Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

A Distributed Optimization Framework for Localization and Formation Control: Applications to Vision-Based Measurements

Publisher IEEE Control Systems

A macroscopic privacy model for heterogeneous robot swarms

Publisher Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

A Scalable Strategy for Open Loop Magnetic Control of Microrobots Using Critical Points

Publisher UPenn Departmental Papers (MEAM)

A scripted printable quadrotor: Rapid design and fabrication of a folded MAV

Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

A swarm of flying smartphones

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

A theory on grasping objects using effectors with curved contact surfaces and its application to whole-arm grasping

Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)

Adaptive distribution of a swarm of heterogeneous robots

Publisher Acta Polytechnica

Aggressive flight with quadrotors for perching on inclined surfaces

Publisher Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Algorithms for visibility-based monitoring with robot teams

Publisher arXiv

Assembly sequence planning for constructing planar structures with rectangular modules

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Automated creation of topological maps in unknown environments using a swarm of resource-constrained robots

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Bearing-only formation control with auxiliary distance measurements, leaders, and collision avoidance

Publisher IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Control of microstructures propelled via bacterial baths

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Coordinated path planning for fixed-wing UAS conducting persistent surveillance missions

Publisher IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)

Directed micro assembly of passive particles at fluid interfaces using magnetic robots

Publisher International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS)

Estimation, control, and planning for aggressive flight with a small quadrotor with a single camera and IMU

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Fast autonomous flight with micro unmanned vehicles

Publisher Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop

Formalizing the impact of diversity on performance in a heterogeneous swarm of robots

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Hierarchical strategy synthesis for pursuit-evasion problems

Publisher Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA)

High speed navigation for quadrotors with limited onboard sensing

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Human-robot collaborative topological exploration for search and rescue applications

Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Hybrid architecture for communication-aware multi-robot systems

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Implan: Scalable Incremental Motion Planning for Multi-Robot Systems

Publisher ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS)

In-flight formation control for a team of fixed-wing aerial vehicles

Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

Independent control of identical magnetic robots in a plane

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Initialization-free monocular visual-inertial state estimation with application to autonomous MAVs

Publisher Springer

Modeling and control of aerial robots

Publisher Springer

Next Generation Robotics

Publisher arXiv

Obstacle avoidance and path intersection validation for UAS: A B-spline approach

Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

Online planning for energy-efficient and disturbance-aware UAV operations

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

QUADCLOUD: A rapid response force with quadrotor teams

Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Restraining objects with curved effectors and its application to whole-arm grasping

Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Safe and complete trajectory generation for robot teams with higher-order dynamics

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Safe navigation of quadrotor teams to labeled goals in limited workspaces

Publisher International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)

Smooth trajectory generation on SE(3) for a free flying space robot

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Swarm Distribution and Deployment for Cooperative Surveillance by Micro-Aerial Vehicles

Publisher Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems

The flying monkey: A mesoscale robot that can run, fly, and grasp

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

The role of vision in perching and grasping for MAVs

Publisher International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

Toward a Science of Autonomy for Physical Systems: Aerial Earth Science

Publisher arXiv

Towards autonomous phytopathology: Outcomes and challenges of citrus greening disease detection through close-range remote sensing

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Towards collaborative mapping and exploration using multiple micro aerial robots

Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Towards fully autonomous visual inspection of dark featureless dam penstocks using MAVs

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Versatile aerial grasping using self-sealing suction

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Vision-based fast navigation of micro aerial vehicles

Publisher International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

Visual inertial odometry for quadrotors on SE(3)

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Visual-inertial direct SLAM

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

A topological approach to using cables to separate and manipulate sets of objects

Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)

Active control strategies for discovering and localizing devices with range-only sensors

Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Active magnetic anomaly detection using multiple micro aerial vehicles

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

An approximation algorithm for time optimal multi-robot routing

Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

An automated system for semantic object labeling with soft object recognition and dynamic programming segmentation

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)

Automated detection, localization, and registration of smart devices with multiple robots

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)

Automated Self-Assembly of Large Maritime Structures by a Team of Robotic Boats

Publisher IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)

Autonomous Localization of an Unknown Number of Targets Without Data Association Using Teams of Mobile Sensors

Publisher IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)

Autonomous robotic exploration using occupancy grid maps and graph SLAM based on Shannon and Rényi Entropy

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Comparison of an attitude estimator based on the Lagrange-d’Alembert principle with some state-of-the-art filters

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Control of multiple magnetic micro robots

Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)

Cooperative localization and mapping of MAVs using RGB-D sensors

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Decentralized algorithm for force distribution with applications to cooperative transport

Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)

Design and fabrication of safe, light-weight, flying robots

Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)

Design of small, safe and robust quadrotor swarms

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Devices, systems, and methods for automated monitoring enabling precision agriculture

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)

Experimental Robotics: The 14th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics

Publisher Springer

Fast redistribution of a swarm of heterogeneous robots

Publisher EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT)

Five years of ASME journal of mechanisms and robotics

Publisher Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Flying Smartphones: Automated Flight Enabled by Consumer Electronics

Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Information-theoretic mapping using Cauchy-Schwarz Quadratic Mutual Information

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Information-theoretic planning with trajectory optimization for dense 3D mapping

Publisher Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)

Inspection of penstocks and featureless tunnel-like environments using micro UAVs

Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Mixed Integer Quadratic Program trajectory generation for a quadrotor with a cable-suspended payload

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Optically addressing microscopic bioactuators for real-time control

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Persistent Homology for Path Planning in Uncertain Environments

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Planning and control of aggressive maneuvers for perching on inclined and vertical surfaces

Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)

Quadrotor kinematics and dynamics

Publisher Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Rapid co-design of electro-mechanical specifications for robotic systems

Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)

Safe receding horizon control for aggressive MAV flight with limited range sensing

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Sensor coverage robot swarms using local sensing without metric information

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Smartphones power flying robots

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Sparsest minimum multiple-cost structural leader selection

Publisher IFAC-PapersOnLine

Special Issue on the 14th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, 2014

Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)

Tightly-coupled monocular visual-inertial fusion for autonomous flight of rotorcraft MAVs

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Viewpoint the future of computer science and engineering is in your hands

Publisher Communications of the ACM

Visibility-based persistent monitoring with robot teams

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Visual servoing of quadrotors for perching by hanging from cylindrical objects

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

News

GRASP News

The GRASP Lab Goes to ISER 2025

July 17, 2025

GRASP News

The GRASP Lab Goes to RSS 2025

June 9, 2025

Faculty News

Penn Engineering Dean Honored with John Scott Award for Robotics Advances

November 22, 2024

Faculty News

Penn Engineering Research Discovers Critical Vulnerabilities in AI-Enabled Robots to Increase Safety and Security  

October 17, 2024

Student News

When Robots Dive into Forests: Exploring Autonomous Systems in Natural Environments

September 21, 2024

Faculty News

Fall 2024 Dean’s Welcome

August 20, 2024

GRASP News

The First Climb into the GRASP Treehouse

August 30, 2023

Faculty News

UGC push for foreign universities in India attractive to UPenn’s Indian-origin professors

January 19, 2023

Faculty News

For ‘spirit of innovation,’ three from Penn named National Academy of Inventors Fellows

December 22, 2022

GRASP News

The Nuts and Bolts of GRASP at ICRA 2022

June 1, 2022

GRASP News

ICRA 2021 Results

June 4, 2021

Alumni News

‘How to Get Hired in Philly’s Growing Robotics Scene’

March 22, 2021

GRASP News

ICRA 2021 – GRASP Accepted Papers

March 3, 2021

Faculty News

A Message from Dean Vijay Kumar, Announcing Penn Engineering’s First Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

July 1, 2020

GRASP News

ICRA 2020 Recap

June 24, 2020

Faculty News

2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award recipient announced!

October 14, 2019

GRASP News

Building it Better Together: The jobs of the future

September 6, 2019

Student News

GRASP Lab’s high-flying robots

August 19, 2019

Student News

An army of microrobots can wipe out dental plaque

April 25, 2019

GRASP News

Wall Street Journal’s ‘Moving Upstream’ on Autonomous Flight

November 14, 2018

The drone from this Penn spinout can fly inside mines without maps or GPS by Technically Philly

June 28, 2018

Faculty News

2018 RAS Pioneer Award

May 17, 2018

Faculty News

Penn Engineering Dean elected to the American Philosophical Society in Penn Engineering News

May 4, 2018

GRASP News

Self-piloting drone launches in South Philadelphia in ABC News

May 3, 2018

GRASP News

SwRI-led Team to Develop Drones for Use in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

March 20, 2018

GRASP News

Penn drones navigate on their own, could save people from peril in Philly.com

February 13, 2018

Student News

These Robots Can Assemble Themselves In Midair

January 18, 2018

GRASP News

Microdrones That Cooperate to Transport Objects Could Be Future of Warehouse Automation

January 15, 2018

GRASP News

This Autonomous Quadrotor Swarm Doesn’t Need GPS

December 27, 2017

Faculty News

Robohub: Smart Swarms with Vijay Kumar

October 28, 2017

GRASP News

“Battlefield Game Changer” in Airman

July 5, 2017

GRASP News

ICRA Awards for GRASP Faculty and Students

June 2, 2017

Faculty News

Philly is robotics hub of the East Coast

May 14, 2017

GRASP News

“Penn Engineering Offers an Online MicroMasters in Robotics” in Penn Engineering

February 28, 2017

Faculty News

“Exyn unveils AI to help drones fly autonomously, even indoors or off the grid” in Tech Crunch

February 21, 2017

Student News

“Autonomous perching and grasping for micro aerial vehicles” in SPIE Newsroom

February 8, 2017

Student News

Monroe Kennedy and Vijay Kumar featured on Nature Knows Best TV Series

January 27, 2017

GRASP News

“Calling all creatives for new Comcast-Pennovation Challenge” in PennCurrent

January 19, 2017

GRASP News

“The Secret to Small Drone Obstacle Avoidance Is to Just Crash Into Stuff” in the IEEE Spectrum

October 31, 2016

GRASP News

“Teachers get crash course in robotics” in Penn Current

September 22, 2016

GRASP News

Why 10 District teachers spent their summer doing grad-level STEM research

August 24, 2016

Faculty News

Engineering in 100 Seconds – Dr. Vijay Kumar (Video)

December 3, 2015

Faculty News

The future of flying robots

October 15, 2015

GRASP News

Wellington Management Foundation Provides $250,000 Catalyst Grant to Steppingstone Scholars in Partnership with GRASP and Penn Engineering

September 30, 2015

GRASP News

Developing Collaborative Relationships Between Penn and China

September 30, 2015

Faculty News

Vijay Kumar featured in CCTV interview, “Dialogue: Charting a Course”

September 14, 2015

Student News

“Summer at Penn: Coding Flying Robots!”: Quinn Wu on his summer at GRASP Lab in M&T for Life

September 4, 2015

Faculty News

“Penn’s new engineering dean is off to a flying start” on Philly.Com

August 26, 2015

GRASP News

“Flying Smartphones: Automated Flight Enabled by Consumer Electronics” featured on front page of IEEE Robotics and Automation, June Issue

July 9, 2015

Faculty News

Vijay Kumar featured speaker at TedXPenn April 12, 2015

July 2, 2015

Faculty News

Vijay Kumar speaks at the Mayor’s STEM Ambassador’s ceremony

June 15, 2015

Faculty News

Vijay Kumar was quoted in Gizmodo India’s “Flying Rescue Drones Will Claw Like Eagles And Swarm Like Bees”

June 2, 2015

Faculty News

Penn Researchers Join Two NSF Projects on Medical Cyber-physical Systems

May 21, 2015

Faculty News

Vijay Kumar Speaks on TEDxGateway about Aerial robot drones

April 29, 2015

Faculty News

Dr. Vijay Kumar named Dean of Penn Engineering

March 3, 2015

Faculty News

Vijay Kumar commenting on unmanned aircraft technology in Bloomberg News Panel “Amazon vs. Google: Battle for Drone Supremacy”

February 11, 2015

Faculty News

Vijay and GRASP Lab featured for working with flying robots in “Xploration Earth 2050: Bio-Mechanimals” on Hulu

February 11, 2015

Faculty News

Vijay Kumar’s lab research was featured in IEEE’s “Drones Learn Tricks With Suspended Loads, Through-Window Package Delivery Inevitable”

February 11, 2015

GRASP News

The GRASP Lab was featured in the Atlantic’s “Here Come the Swarming Drones”

February 11, 2015

Faculty News

Dr. Vijay Kumar on Mint India

November 6, 2014

GRASP News

GRASP Lab’s Multi Robot Systems Lab featured in Xploration Earth 2050 on biomimicry called “Bio-Mechanimals”

October 29, 2014

Faculty News

“RIA to Present 2014 Engelberger Robotics Awards to Dr. Rodney Brooks, Dr. Rory Cooper and Dr. Vijay Kumar” on Robotics.org

September 19, 2014

Faculty News

‘Project Wing’ Dr. Vijay Kumar on Bloomberg TV

September 10, 2014

Faculty News

Dr. Vijay Kumar as one of “The Most Important People Working In Robotics Today” in the Business Insider

July 2, 2014

Faculty News

Vijay Kumar, Dan Lee and Katherine Kuchenbecker – LIVE on the Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane

January 16, 2014

GRASP News

“Roboticists from Penn Engineering take on the world” in the Penn Current

January 9, 2014

Faculty News

Vijay Kumar comments on the applications of UAV swarms in PopSci’s “The Future Of Flight: Swarms Will Dominate The Sky”

December 4, 2013

GRASP News

Popular Mechanics Annual Breakthrough Award – Tiny Drone Squadron

November 5, 2013

Faculty News

GRASP Faculty on the South by Southwest Interactive 2014 Panels…Katherine Kuchenbecker and Vijay Kumar

October 15, 2013

GRASP News

Penn Engineering’s GRASP Lab, Wharton’s Mack Institute Take Y-Prize Global in Penn News

October 2, 2013

GRASP News

We the Geeks: “Robots” on the whitehouse.gov

August 9, 2013

Faculty News

IDSA International Conference Preview: Dr. Vijay Kumar on Tiny Flying Robots and Whether or Not They’re Taking Over the World – Core77

August 6, 2013

GRASP Quadrotors in Nature’s “Drones in science: Fly, and bring me data”

June 12, 2013

Faculty News

Dr. Vijay Kumar elected to the National Academy of Engineering

February 7, 2013

Student News

First Annual University of Pennsylvania Y-Prize Competition

February 6, 2013

Faculty News

Penn News: Engineering’s Vijay Kumar appears on “NOVA” on PBS, explaining how autonomous robots, like those being developed in the GRASP Lab, could benefit society. (Video)

January 28, 2013

GRASP News

“Penn Research Team Awarded $2.75 Million as Part of New ‘Swarm’ Computing Center”…Penn News

January 23, 2013

Faculty News

Dr. Vijay Kumar in PhillyMag.com…”The Smartest People in Philadelphia – Technology”

November 7, 2012

GRASP News

Penn Joins MIT-led Project on ‘Printable Robots’

April 16, 2012

Faculty News

Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly … and cooperate – TED Talk

March 1, 2012

Faculty News

The James Bond of robots: Vijay Kumar at TED2012

February 29, 2012

GRASP News

Subhrajit, Maxim and Vijay win Best Paper at RSS 2011

July 6, 2011

GRASP News

GRASP Lab Video “Construction with Quadrotor for Teams” goes viral!

June 15, 2011

GRASP News

Numerous Awards from the ICRA 2011 Conference

May 13, 2011

Faculty News

George Pappas and Vijay Kumar organized the 11th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) in Athens, Greece

August 10, 2009

Faculty News

Vijay Kumar on the KUOW.org, 94.9FM station

May 12, 2009

Ph.D. Students

Anish Bhattacharya

PhD, CIS

Anthony Bisulco

PhD, ESE

Fernando Cladera

Robotics MSE '19; PhD, CIS

Spencer Folk

PhD, MEAM

Kashish Garg

Robotics MSE; Manager, Research Projects - Kumar Lab, MEAM

Parakh M. Gupta

Visiting Scholar

Malakhi Hopkins

PhD, ESE

Laura Jarin-Lipschitz

PhD, MEAM

Arjun Kumar

PhD, MEAM

Pratik Kunapuli

PhD, CIS

Alice Kate Li

PhD, ESE

Beiming Li

Robotics MSE '24, ESE PhD

Katherine Mao

PhD, MEAM

Dexter Ong

Robotics Master's '24; PhD, CIS

Zachary Ravichandran

PhD, ESE

Yifei Shao

PhD, CIS

Yuezhan Tao

PhD, CIS

Yuwei Wu

PhD, ESE

Research Staff

Jonathan A. Diller

Postdoctoral researcher, CIS

Kashish Garg

Robotics MSE; Manager, Research Projects - Kumar Lab, MEAM

Edward Steager

Research Investigator

Alex Zhou

Researcher Scientist

Alumni

Saurav Agarwal

Postdoctoral Researcher, MEAM '22-'25

Nora Ayanian

PhD, MEAM '11 - Associate Professor, Brown University

Spring Berman

PhD MEAM '10; Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University

Subhrajit Bhattacharya

PostDoc Math '16, PhD, MEAM '12 - Associate Professor, Lehigh University

Benjamin Charrow

PhD, CIS '15 - Senior Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead, Waymo

Austin Chen

Robotics MS '20; PhD, CIS '24 - Mission Autonomy Lead, HavocAI

Sachin Chitta

PhD, MEAM '05 - Director of Robotics Research, Autodesk

Avraham Cohen

PostDoc, MEAM '20

Philip Dames

PhD, MEAM '15; PostDoc, ESE '16 - Faculty, Temple University

Sambeeta Das

PostDoc'19 - Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

Jnaneshwar Das

PostDoc, MEAM'18 - Research Associate Professor, Arizona State University

Jaydev Desai

PhD, MEAM '98 - Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Rafael Fierro

PostDoc, MEAM '01 - Professor, University of New Mexico

Luis Guerrero Bonilla

PhD, MEAM '19

Laura Hallock

PostDoc, MEAM '21 - '23; Assistant Professor, University of Utah

Anthony Hoogs

PhD, CIS '98 - Senior Director of Computer Vision, Kitware, Inc.

Elizabeth Hunter

Robotics MSE '17; PhD, MEAM '20 - COO & Co-founder, Treeswift

Konstantinos Karydis

PostDoc, MEAM '17; Associate Professor, University of California Riverside

James Keller

PhD, MEAM '16 - Project Research Manager '21 - Boeing

Monroe Kennedy

Robotics MSE '16; PhD, MEAM '19; Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Arbaaz Khan

Robotics MSE '18, PhD ESE '21 - Founder/Chief Scientist, Stealth AI Startup

Terry Kientz

Robotics MSE '17 - Project Engineer, MEAM (2011-2016)- Assoc Director, PERCH Design & Fabrication Facility (2016-2022)

Peter Kraus

PhD, MEAM '02

Alex Kushleyev

Robotics Researcher

Elijah S. Lee

PhD, CIS '23, Ford Latitude AI

Rebecca Li

Robotics MSE '20; PhD, MEAM

Sikang Liu

PhD, MEAM '18

Xu Liu

Robotics MSE '19, PhD, MEAM '24 - Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft

Wenxin Liu

PhD, CIS '22 - Localization Head and R&D VP at LFI

Giuseppe Loianno

Research Scientist '18 - Professor, NYU

Douglas Macharet

PostDoc, MEAM '20 - Federal University of Minas Gerais

Matthew Malencia

Robotics MSE '19, PhD, ESE '23

Sandeep Manjanna

PostDoc, MEAM '20-'22, Plaksha University

Siddharth Mayya

PostDoc, MEAM '21 - Software & Data Science Lead, Aquatic Labs

Ian Miller

PhD, ESE '23, Burro

Kartik Mohta

Robotics MSE '11; PhD, ESE '18 - Autel Robotics

Daniel Mox

PhD, MEAM '23, Software Engineer at Zoox

Yash Mulgaonkar

Robotics MSE '12; PhD, MEAM '19 - Zoox

Varun Murali

PostDoc, MEAM '23-'25 - Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

Tolga Ozaslan

PhD, MEAM '19 - Assistant Professor, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi

Jimmy Paulos

Robotics MSE '15; PhD, MEAM '17; PostDoc '21 - Machine Learning Lead, Treeswift

Luciano Pimenta

Visiting Scholar, MEAM '08

Amanda Prorok

PostDoc, MEAM '15-'17 - Professor, Cambridge University

Chao Qu

Robotics MSE '14, PhD CIS '22, Autonomy Engineer at Skydio

Rattanachai (Tee) Ramaithitima

Robotics MSE '15; PhD, CIS '18 - Tech Lead Manager, Motion Validation, Nuro

David Saldaña

PostDoc, MEAM '19 - Assistant Professor, Lehigh University

Kelsey Saulnier

PhD, ESE '22 - Pattern Labs

Mac Schwager

PostDoc '11 - Associate Professor, Stanford University

Jun Seo

PhD, MEAM '14 - Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Daigo Shishika

PostDoc, MEAM '20 - Assistant Professor, George Mason University

Igor Spasojevic

Postdoctoral Researcher, ESE '22-'25

Tom Sugar

PhD, MEAM '99 - Associate Dean, Barrett, The Honors College, Professor, Arizona State University

Ke Sun

PhD, ESE '21 - Senior Software Engineer, Zoox

James Svacha

PhD, ESE '20 - Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Forterra

Sarah Tang

PhD, MEAM '18 - Tech Lead / Senior Staff Software Engineer, Waymo

Dinesh Thakur

Robotics MSE '11, Research Scientist '15-'22 - Senior Staff Robotics Engineer, Burro

Justin Thomas

PhD, MEAM '17 - Director, Controls, Exyn Technologies

Pratap Tokekar

PostDoc, MEAM '15 - Associate Professor, University of Maryland

Ekaterina Tolstaya

Robo MSE '21; PhD, ESE '21 - Senior Research Scientist, Waymo

Guilherme Vicentim Narda

Visiting Scholar Under V. Kumar '20

Michael Watterson

PhD, ESE '18; Software Engineer, Applied Intuition

Jake Welde

Robotics MSE '20, PhD, MEAM '25 - Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University

Michael (Mickey) Whitzer

ROBO MSE '18; PhD, MEAM '20 - Autonomous Systems Technology Engineer, NASA

Denise Wong

Robotics MSE '15; PhD, MEAM '16 - Senior Technical Lead, Boston Dynamics

John Wright

PostDoc 1999 - Professor and Program Coordinator, Millersville University

Valentin Wueest

Visiting Scholar, MEAM

Rahul Zahroof

Robotics MSE '21 - Senior R&D Mechanical Engineer, Halliburton

Lifeng Zhou

PostDoc, MEAM '20-'22 - Assistant Professor, Drexel University

Vijay Kumar

Research Areas

Dynamical Systems and Control

  • Data-Driven Control Algorithms
  • Distributed and Decentralized Control

Machine Learning/AI and Autonomous Systems

  • Autonomy
  • Planning

Multi-robot and Multi-agent Systems

  • Multi-robot Systems
  • Networked Robots
  • Swarm Robots

Robot and Mechanism Design

  • Flying Robots

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