The New Michigan Robotics Newsletter: made to skim, 4x a year
Welcome to the quarterly newsletter for Michigan Robotics.
This is meant to help you keep up with a summary of achievements of fellow faculty and students, past and upcoming events, resources, and anything outside routine programming.
Research
Jason Corso and Luowei Zhou published research on video object grounding, using their instructional cooking video library, YouCook2.
Matt Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan, and Xiaoxiao Du published a paper on predicting pedestrian movements.
Walter Lasecki published a paper on using “crowdsourcing to provide a cost-effective, real-time remote backup for onboard autonomous systems."
Josh Mangelson discussed his research on multi-agent underwater inspection.
Lionel Robert published research on using VR to prototype and test workers' reactions to collaborative robots.
Awards
S.R. Manikandasriram, PhD co-advised by Johnson-Roberson and Vasudevan, received the Towner Prize for Robotics.
Kevin Lieberman, PhD advised by Nadine Sarter, received a Graduate Student Distinguished Leadership Award.
Adarash Mish, IOE undergrad involved in robotics student teams, received an Undergraduate Distinguished Leadership Award.
Necmiye Ozay and Johnson-Roberson both received Henry Russel Awards.
Nadine Sarter was elected to the NAE – the first Robotics Core Faculty to be elected not counting emeritus faculty.
Sarter also received the Richard W. Pew Collegiate Professorship in Industrial and Operations Engineering.
Video
ROB 550 students built mazebots, balance bots, and arms last semester.
Shai Revzen and Dan Zhao took advantage of the winter and tested out BigAnt in the snow.
Jessy Grizzle and his lab also utilized the worst of winter and tested Cassie at -8°F... for over an hour.
Matais del Campo utilizes the Microsoft Hololens in student design and construction projects.
Michael Gonzalez and Liz Olson present on the new Ford Robotics Building at the Victors for Michigan Celebration.
Upcoming events
The next Robotics Seminar happens April 2 with Anton Shiriaev, Professor, Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU.
Robotics Interfaces seminars continue bridging disciplines, having heard about 3D printing in design, algorithms in architecture, and how navigation in ants can inform robotics. The next Robotics Interfaces with Architecture: this Friday, March 15!
Past events
Geoff Hollinger, OSU, presented on Marine Robotics at the first Robotics Seminar of the year.
Knight-Wallace Fellows, a select group of global journalists, visited a few labs as they learned about robotics.
Uber ATG visited A2SysLab and ICRL where students filled Uber in on their latest research.
M-Air
A new space heater and heated gloves are now available in the M-Air locker (just in time for spring!).
Website
A refreshed Robotics website is up! If you have code to add to the datasets and code page, want to get a better picture of yourself up, or have news to be featured, let me know!
If you have comments on this email or submissions for the next, please send them to dnewms@umich.edu.
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