It's spring on the Carnegie Mellon University campus, and students divided into teams focused on communications, guidance navigation and control (GNC), and vision have their heads together trying to simulate how a satellite collects and transmits usable images. Across the room, their peers on the avionics team have laid out rows of circuit boards and [...]
SCS Founders University Professor Takeo Kanade will receive the BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies for developing the mathematical foundations for computer vision and robot perception. Learn more and watch the livestream of the presentation ceremony from Bilbao, Spain via the BBVA Foundation's website on Thursday, [...]
Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute have introduced a learning-based control framework called Agile But Safe (ABS). The framework– developed and programmed by Tairan He, Chong Zhang, Wenli Xiao, Guanqi He, Changliu Liu, Guanya Shi– enables quadrupedal robots to move in a collision-free manner in confined indoor and outdoor environments. When programmed with ABS, [...]
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI) have developed a robotic system that interactively co-paints with people. Collaborative FRIDA (CoFRIDA) can work with users of any artistic ability, inviting collaboration to create art in the real world. "It's like the drawing equivalent of a writing prompt," said Jim McCann, an associate RI professor who [...]
Carnegie Mellon University researchers from its Robotics Institute (RI) and College of Engineering are packing up fossil-inspired paleobionics, robotic hands and autonomous aerial vehicles to demonstrate to members of Congress and their staff at “Robotics for a Better Tomorrow: Robotics Showcase and Demo Day,” in Washington, D.C. on April 30. Over 30 researchers from federal agencies, industry [...]
The brown haze that settled over Pittsburgh and other U.S. cities last summer was merely an irritant to most residents, but for researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI), it was a reminder of why they are developing drones to help fight wildfires. The smoke was generated by record-breaking wildfires in Canada. Over the [...]
Kshitij Goel, a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute, was awarded the 2024 Alan J. Perlis Graduate Teaching Award by Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science (SCS) for outstanding work in redesigning and teaching Mobile Robot Algorithms Laboratory (MRAL), general excellence in teaching and student interaction, and dedication towards improving all courses in which [...]
David Held, an associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, is one of two CMU faculty members selected to lead teams receiving Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) funding from the Department of Defense (DoD). Created in 1985, the highly competitive MURI program provides important funding to teams pursuing basic research spanning multiple scientific disciplines with the goal of [...]
Carnegie Mellon University researchers teamed up with scientists at NASA to develop a robot capable of searching underwater oceans on distant planets for signs of life. NASA's Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) is a self-propelled, autonomous, snake-like robot inspired by a desire to one day look for signs of life in the vast ocean beneath [...]
The CMU team is monitoring four small satellites as they communicate with each other, determining where they are relative to one another and autonomously maneuvering to stay within communication range. The satellites have no propulsion systems but can change their orbital positions by adjusting their orientation in flight to increase or decrease drag. These maneuvers [...]
