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OVERVIEW

The Multiple Autonomous Robotic Systems (MARS) Laboratory is a multi-disciplinary research lab at the University of Minnesota. The objective of the MARS Lab is to promote basic research and education in robotics and computer vision with special emphasis on estimation and control of autonomous ground, aerial, and space vehicles.

Researchers in our group have a diverse background in Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Physics.

The research interests of our group are on:

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SLAM

  • Mobile robot localization, mapping, navigation, and tracking

  • Sensor networks

  • Distributed sensing and control in bandwidth-limited environments

  • Vision-aided inertial navigation

  • Structure from motion

  • Adaptive estimation

  • Fault detection and identification

  • Human-robot interaction

The members of this group are affiliated with the AIRVL, the Center for Distributed Robotics, and the SPINCOM group.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

  • May 19-23 '08: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA (ICRA 2008).

  • June 24-26 '08: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Anchorage, AK (CVPR 2008).

  • July 14-17 '08: 11th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Athens, Greece (ISER 2008).

  • Sep. 22-26 '08: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France (IROS 2008).

RESEARCH NEWS & AWARDS:

  • May 2 '08: F. Mirzaei receives the UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award

  • Oct. '07: Xun (Sam) Zhou and Prof. Roumeliotis are the IROS'06 Best Paper Award Finalists for the paper: X.S. Zhou and S.I. Roumeliotis, "Multi-robot SLAM with Unknown Initial Correspondence: The Robot Rendezvous Case" , In Proc. 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, Oct. 9-15, pp. 1785-1792.

  • Aug. '07: 3 MARS Lab students receive UMN/CSE Excellence in Research Awards - (i) Joel Hesch for the paper: J. Hesch and S.I. Roumeliotis, "An Indoor
    Localization Aid for the Visually Impaired,'' In Proc. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'07), Rome, Italy, Apr. 10-14, pp.
    3545-3551    . - (ii) Faraz Mirzaei for the paper: F.M. Mirzaei, A.I. Mourikis, and S.I. Roumeliotis "On the Performance of Multi-robot Target Tracking,'' In Proc. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'07), Rome, Italy, Apr. 10-14, pp. 3482-3489. - (iii) Xun (Sam) Zhou for the paper: X.S. Zhou and S.I. Roumeliotis, "Determining the Robot-to-Robot Relative Pose using Range-only Measurements,'' In Proc. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
    Automation (ICRA'07), Rome, Italy, Apr. 10-14, pp. 4025-4031.

  • July '07: Prof. Roumeliotis is the co-recipient of the Best Journal Paper Award of the Robotics Society of Japan for the paper: D.M. Helmick, S.I. Roumeliotis, Y. Chang, D.S. Clouse, M. Bajracharya, and L. Matthies, "Slip-Compensated Path Following for Planetary Exploration Rovers" , Advanced Robotics , (20)11, Nov. 2006, pp. 4782-4795.

  • July '07: Joel Hesch receives the NIH Neuro-Physical-Computational Sciences Training Fellowship Award

  • May 1 '07: A.I. Mourikis receives the UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award

  • Jan. 4 '07: Prof. Roumeliotis receives the NSF CAREER Award for the proposal "CAREER: Distributed Estimation and Active Sensing with Mobile Robot Networks" [NSF - award abstract].

  • June '06: N. Trawny receives the UMN/CSE Guidant Excellence in Research Award for the paper: N. Trawny and S.I. Roumeliotis, "A Unified Framework for Nearby and Distant Landmarks in Bearing-Only SLAM,'' In Proc. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'06), Orlando, FL, May 15-19, pp. 1923-29.

  • June '06: A.I. Mourikis receives the UMN/CSE Excellence in Research Award for the paper: A.I. Mourikis and S.I. Roumeliotis, "Optimal Sensor Scheduling for Resource-Constrained Localization of Mobile Robot Formations,'' IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(5), Oct. 2006, pp. 917-931.

  • Apr. 18 '06: One NASA Center Best Award - Team award to the JPL, NASA Ames, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Minnesota development team of the Coupled Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy (CLARAty). Center: Jet Propulsion Laboratory [05/18/06 local copy of JPL Universe].

  • Mar. 9 '06: One NASA Peer Award - Team award to the JPL, NASA Ames, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Minnesota development team of the Coupled Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy (CLARAty). In recognition of the accomplishment of creating and applying a software framework for integrating innovations in robotics into rapid insertion into NASA's flight missions [03/24/06 local copy of JPL Universe].

  • June '05: A.I. Mourikis receives the UMN/CSE Excellence in Research Award for the paper: A.I. Mourikis and S.I. Roumeliotis, "Performance Bounds for Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM)," In Proc. Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS'05), Cambridge, MA, June 8-11, 2005, pp. 73-80.

  • Mar. 20-22 '05: Packbot stair climbing demo at SSR-RC Spring Symposium, Tampa, FL (video).

  • Feb. 15 '05: Packbot stair climbing v0.1 (video1, video2, video3, video4).

PREVIOUS EVENTS:

  • Oct. 29-Nov. 2 '07: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, CA (IROS 2007).

  • June 27-30 '07: Robotics - Science and Systems, Atlanta, GA (RSS 2007).

  • Apr. 10-14 '07: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy (ICRA 2007).

  • Aug. 16-19 '06: Robotics - Science and Systems, Philadelphia, PA (RSS 2006).

  • Oct. 9-15 '06: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China (IROS 2006).

  • Apr. 28 '06: Prof. Sanjiv Singh, "Shared Control of Assembly Tasks in Robots and Humans" (Robotics Seminar) Fr. Apr. 28, 1:30-2:30, DTC 402.

  • Apr. 24 '06: Prof. Leo Guibas, "Point-Based Methods in Shape Modeling and Physical Simulation" (Cray Lecture Series) Mon. Apr. 24, 11:15-12:15, EE/CS 3-180.

  • Apr. 10 '06: Prof. Daniela Rus, "Self-Organizing Robot Systems" (Unisys Lecture Series) Mon. Apr. 10, 11:15-12:15, EE/CS 3-180

  • Dec. 5 '05: Prof. Lydia Kavraki, "From Robots to Biomolecules: Computing Meets the Physical World" (Cray Lecture Series) Mon. Dec. 5, 11:15-12:15, EE/CS 3-125

  • Oct. 4-5 '05: SSR-RC Fall Symposium, Minneapolis, MN

  • Aug. 2-6 '05: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Alberta, CA (IROS 2005).

  • July 30 '05: IJCAI-05, Workshop: "Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics," Edinburgh, Scotland (RUR 2005).

  • July 18-20 '05: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Seattle, Washington (ICAR 2005).

  • June 8-11 '05: Robotics - Science and Systems, Boston, MA (RSS 2005).

  • April 18-22 '05: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain (ICRA 2005).

  • Feb. 24-26 '05: Asimo visit (poster)

 

 

 

  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
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