Student Seminars
Robotics Student Seminars
February 12
Temporal Patterns in Control - getting around by undulation
Robotics Faculty/Student Seminar
Prof. P.S. Krishnaprasad
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
February 21
Designing a flying and driving vehicle that can transform to overcome obstacles
Ryan Moss, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Sarah Bergrbeiter
March 12
Metamaterial Enhancement to Robotic Navigation – Bio-inspired Metamaterial SONAR
Randy Ganye, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Miao Yu
May 7
Fully 3D Printed Soft Robotics with Integrated Logic
Joshua Hubbard, Department of Chemical Engineering
Kristen Edwards, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ruben Acevedo, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Jennifer Landry, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Ryan Sochol
Robotics Student Seminars
August 31
Active Perception on Humanoids and Quadrotors
Nitin Sanket and Chahat Singh, Computer Science Department
Advisor: Professor Yiannis Aloimonos
September 24
Denis Tra Bi, Jallalah Abdullah, Gireesh Suresh and Jill Granados, Computer Science Department
Advisor: Professor Dana Nau
November 14
Vincenz Frenzel, Derek Thompson, and Rohitkrishna Nambiar, Aerospace Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Mumu Xu
Robotics Student Seminars
April 18
Hamed Saeidi, Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Axel Krieger
May 9
Vincenz Frenzel
Mathew Vaughn
Mackenzie Allen
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Mumu Xu
Robotics Student Seminars
October 17
Kate McBryan, PhD Candidate, Aerospace Engineering Department
Advisor: Dr. David Akin
October 24
Sunandita Patra, PhD Candiate, Computer Science Department
Advisor: Dr. Dana Nau
November 1
Derek Thompson and Matthew Vaughn, Undergraduate Students, Aerospace Engineering Department
Advisor: Dr. Huan Xu
Robotics Student Seminars
February 17
Nitin Sanket, PhD student, Computer Science
Advisor: Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos
February 28
Learning Task Models for Robotic Manipulation of Nonrigid Objects
Joshua Langsfeld, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
PhD Advisor: Prof. SK Gupta
March 28
Robotic imitation learning using a model of cause-effect reasoning
Garrett Katz, PhD student, Computer Science
Advisor: Prof. James Reggia
April 18
Compliant Sensing Skin for Co-Robots
Ying Chen, PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering
Advisors: Prof. Elisabeth Smela and Prof. Miao Yu
May 2
Detecting Symmetric Objects in 3D Pointclouds
Aleksandrs Ecins, PhD candidate, Computer Science
Advisors: Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos and Dr. Cornelia Fermüller
Robotics Student Seminars
September 22
Hee-Sup Shin, PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Sarah Bergbreiter
December 9
Lena Johnson, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Hugh Bruck
Robotics Student Seminars
February 25
Aleksandrs Ecins, PhD candidate, Computer Science
Advisors: Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos and Dr. Cornelia Fermüller
March 24
Planning for Autonomous Operations of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (Unmanned Boats)
Brual Shah, PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Satyandra K. Gupta
April 7
Bio-Inspired Vision Systems for Real-World Robotics
Francisco Barranco, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Computer Science
Advisors: Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos and Dr. Cornelia Fermüller
April 28
Dynamics and Scaling of Magnetically Folding Multi-Material Structures
David Ma, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Sarah Bergbreiter
Electroadhesive Feet for Turning Control in Legged Robots
Simpson Chen, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Sarah Bergbreiter