The GRASP Laboratory incorporates a selective and rigorous robotics program for graduate and doctoral students that boasts a research-focused environment within a distinguished Ivy League university. GRASP students work and learn within an intellectual setting founded on the strength of its academic programs led by an expert faculty.
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We believe that our research in GRASP is better with a diverse team in a collaborative environment. We embrace and encourage our lab members’ differences in age, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our lab members who they are. In recognition of the importance of collaboration, we do not abide intolerance, disrespectful or hurtful behavior.
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Publisher Journal of Differential Equations
Year 2021
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Year 2021
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Honored to join friends at @CIS_EPFL. Many collaborations including @grasplab and @cis_epfl alumna Professor @aprorok and @grasplab alum Professor @mssakar. https://twitter.com/CIS_EPFL/status/1401843089866641409
🎙Today 4 pm! «Swarms of Small, Flying Robots »
Prof. @vijay_r_kumar, will discuss his exciting work on creating autonomous ground and aerial robots, designing bio-inspired algorithms for collective behaviors, and on robot swarms.
Register now: http://go.epfl.ch/kumar
We are excited to announce our virtual GRASP research demos! The videos are available for high school and middle school audiences, each containing learning resources, and created in partnership with the GRASP lab & the ODEI Office https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/innovation-engagement/k-12-outreach/virtual-grasp-tour-videos/
And to Jake Welde, James Paulos, and @vijay_r_kumar for their IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles nomination:
“Dynamically Feasible Task Space Planning for Underactuated Aerial Manipulators” (2/2)
Congratulations to Xuan Li, @J_McWilliams18 , Minchen Li, Cynthia Sung, and Chenfanfu Jiang for winning the IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design (sponsored by Moog):
“Soft Hybrid Aerial Vehicle Via Bistable Mechanism” (1/2)
We are thrilled to hear the news that @vijay_r_kumar has been reappointed as Dean of Penn Engineering! https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/vijay-kumar-reappointed-dean-of-penn-engineering/
