
M. Ani Hsieh
Deputy Director, GRASP Lab; Graduate Program Chair, ROBO; Research Associate Professor, MEAM
Ani is interested in problems that lie at the intersection of robotics, dynamical systems theory, and control. Her work focuses on how robots interact with their environments and how the environment can be leveraged as an energy reservoir for robots. Ani and her group create new abstractions to describe dynamic environments and design new architectures and algorithms for teams of robots to interact with each other and their environments. Her work is very interdisciplinary with a strong emphasis on experimental validation.
Research Areas
- Complex Systems
- Data-Driven Modeling and Estimation
- Distributed and Decentralized Control
- Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots
- Networked Robots
- Swarm Robots
- Distributed Sensing and Estimation
Research Groups
Publications
A Topological Approach to Path Planning for a Magnetic Millirobot
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
A triangle histogram for object classification by tactile sensing
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Cooperative prediction of time-varying boundaries with a team of robots
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Information based exploration with panoramas and angle occupancy grids
Publisher Springer
Nonlinear Synchronization Control for Short-Range Mobile Sensors Drifting in Geophysical Flows
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
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October 10, 2017
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March 30, 2012
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Research Areas
- Complex Systems
- Data-Driven Modeling and Estimation
- Distributed and Decentralized Control
- Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots
- Networked Robots
- Swarm Robots
- Distributed Sensing and Estimation