Jun’s paper, “The Convex Uncertain Voronoi Diagram for Safe Multi-Robot Multi-Target Tracking Under Localization Uncertainty,” was just published in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-023-01986-0

Congratulations, Zhanteng, on having your paper “Stochastic Occupancy Grid Map Prediction in Dynamic Scenes” accepted to CoRL 2023. Check out the paper on arXiv and the code on GitHub.

As of July 1, I am officially an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering with tenure.

Zhanteng was just officially elevated to PhD candidacy.

Congratulations, Zhanteng, for having a paper accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

Zhanteng Xie and Philip Dames. “DRL-VO: Learning to Navigate Through Crowded Dynamic Scenes Using Velocity Obstacles.” IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).

TRAIL received a new award from NSF to research Visual Tactile Neural Fields for Active Digital Twin Generation. This is a three-year collaboration with Kostas Daniilidis from the University of Pennsylvania and Monroe Kennedy III from Stanford University.

Congratulations, Pujie and Jun, for having three papers accepted to DARS 2022 between the two of you!

1. Pujie Xin and Philip Dames. “Comparing Stochastic Optimization Methods for Multi-Robot, Multi-Target Tracking.”
2. Pujie Xin and Philip Dames. “Distributed Multiple Hypothesis Tracker for Mobile Sensor Networks.”
3. Jun Chen, Philip Dames, and Shinkyu Park. “Distributed Multi-robot Tracking of Unknown Clustered Targets with Noisy Measurements.”

I received an NSF CAREER Award in June 2022 for my project “Formalizing the Concept of Teamwork in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems.” See also a Temple news article about the project and the official NSF page.

Congratulations to Jun, Deb, and Brandon for having your papers be accepted to ICRA 2021.

We are excited to begin working with our industry partner, ASI Drives, on our project “Local Autonomous Navigation for Materials Handling Ground Vehicles” as part of the Manufacturing PA Innovation Program.