ACL paper Talk Resource-Efficiently to Me: Optimal Communication Planning for Distributed Loop Closure Detection by Matthew Giamou, Kasra Khosoussi and Jonathan P. How was a finalist for the ICRA Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award 2018.

Awards page, Nominated paper

Congratulations to ACL alumnus Trevor Campbell (PhD 2016) on accepting a faculty position at University of British Columbia Department of Statistics!

Trevor’s Homepage, UBC Statistics

ACL alum Chris Shannon (S.M. 2016) graduated pilot training and is off to learn to fly the F-35!

ACL members (Nikita Jaipuria and Shayegan Omidshafiei) presented 2 papers at NIPS 2017 workshops. The follow-up paper by Shayegan Omidshafiei on reinforcement learning was accepted to AAMAS 2018 as a full talk.

Papers

• CASNSC: A context-based approach for accurate pedestrian motion prediction at intersections (NIPS)
• Crossmodal Attentive Skill Learner (NIPS)

Kris, Brett, Nghia, and Kasra got their papers accepted! Good work!

Papers

• Talk Resource-Efficiently to Me (Kasra)
• Complexity Analysis and Efficient Measurement Selection Primitives for High-Rate Graph SLAM (Kris)

See recent interviews of PhD student Michael Everett on his socially-aware robot that can navigate through pedestrian crowds.

Links

Reuters, Discovery Channel, Paper