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GRASP Laboratory of Robotics Research and EducationThe General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab is a truly inter-disciplinary research center at the University of Pennsylvania. GRASP is housed in the School of Engineering and Applied Science with faculty, students and staff from the departments of Computer and Information Science, Electrical and Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. Founded in 1979, the lab has grown today to be one of the premier research centers focusing on fundamental research in robotics, vision, perception, control, automation and learning. GRASP News and EventsApril 2008, one more innovation success story from our alumni: Celcuk Bayrakdar (MSE and research work at the GRASP Lab 2003) makes the news with his invention, the Roboturk, a UAV for immediate mapping of disaster areas. April 2008, Nora Ayanian is a Best Student Paper Finalist at ICRA 2008 (int. Conf. Robotics and Automations) for her paper, "Decentralized Feedback Controllers for Multi-Agent Teams in Environments with Obstacles" (Nora Ayanian and Vijay Kumar). Mar 2008, The Ben Franklin Racing Team - a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania, Lehigh University, and Lockheed Martin ATL - is pleased to announce the release of our Sick LIDAR Matlab/C++ Toolbox v1.0. Mar 2008, Two MURIs 2008 to UPenn and the GRASP lab: George Pappas wins the ONR MURI "HUNT: Heterogeneous Unmanned Networked Teams" leading a consortium of 8 Universities. Michael Kearns and Ali Jadbabaie won the ONR MURI "Next Generation Network Science" leading a consortium of five Universities (announcement and, first, second and third press releases). In the news cnet.com. Mar 2008, Vijay Kumar, leading a consortium of the GRASP Lab, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and U. of New Mexico, wins the Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Collaborative Technology Alliance grant. (press release) Mar 2008, Nader Motee and Ali Jadbabaie win the the O Hugo Schuck Prize of the American Automatic Control Council for their paper "Optimal Control of Spatially Distributed Systems" (also recipient of the best student paper at ACC 07). Dec 2007, GRASP Newsletter Fall 07 Nov 2007, The Micro Manipulation Project was featured on the Microsoft Robotics Studio Blog. read more... Nov 2007, Penn's
Autonomous Car "Little
Ben" completed the DARPA Urban Challenge course in Nov 2007, Penn's Autonomous Car "Little Ben" Advances to the Finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge. news release Oct 2007, Hadas Kress Gazit is a finalist for the Best Paper Award at IROS 2007. Sep 2007, GRASP's Summer Academy of Applied Science and Technology (SAAST) is featured on the NFS website. read more ... Sep 2007, The Ben Franklin racing team featured in the "Morning Call". read more ... Aug 2007, The Ben Franklin racing team advances to the semi-finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge. read more ... Jul 2007, Nader Motee has won the Best Student paper award at the 2007 American Control Conference. (ACC2007) Jun 2007, Jianbo Shi was awarded the Longuet-Higgings Prize for the most influential paper published at CVPR 1997, Shi and Malik, Normalized Cuts for Image Segmentation. Jun 2007, Spring 07 GRASP newsletter. Apr 2007, Dr. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, who joined GRASP as an Assistant Professor in July, won the Best Paper Award on Haptic Technology at the 2007 IEEE World Haptics Conference. conference website. Mar 2007, Ameesh Makadia is a co-winner of the 2007 Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award. Mar 2007, Hadas Kress Gazit and Georgios Fainekos are finalists for the Best Student Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation. |
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GRASP Symposium and Open HouseWednesday, April 16, 2008, 9a-3pSkirkanich Hall  GRASP Seminar
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