The workshop, titled “Emerging Learning and Algorithmic Methods for Data Association in Robotics” hosted invited speakers, papers, and discussion to bring the community together. Great work by Kaveh and the other organizers for hosting this workshop!

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Two papers from ACL were finalists for awards at IROS 2019, and one took home the award! Congrats, Michael and Jesus!

Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics

• (Winner) Planning Beyond the Sensing Horizon Using a Learned Context

Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics

• (Finalist) FASTER: Fast and Safe Trajectory Planner for Flights in Unknown Environments

Michael Everett was featured in MIT News for his work on autonomous last-mile delivery. He is also presenting his work this week at IROS 2019. Congrats, Michael!

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MIT News featured the work of ACL Graduate Student, Jesus Tordesillas, on agile drone flight. His algorithm, FASTER, prevents drones from crashing while flying at high speeds.

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ACL Graduate student, Lena Downes, was recently featured in an MIT News article discussing the future of space exploration. Her work on camera-based navigation methods for lunar landings was highlighted during an MIT celebration for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

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The RAF Aerobatics Team, the Red Arrows, performed along the Boston waterfront as part of their North American Tour. Afterward, they stopped by the ACL and spoke with Professor How about ACL’s own formation flying!