2014 Year in Review

by kwaugh on October 22, 2014

Location

Date: Monday, November 3 2014 (9:30 AM – 4:30 PM)
Place:
Gates-Hillman Center 2109 , 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213 [map]

Please join us for the 2014 Review.  The schedule is available here, but it is not yet finalized.

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Year 5 Review!

by admin on November 2, 2013

Note room change!:

Location

Date: Tuesday, November 19 2013 (9:30 AM – 4:30 PM)
Place: Newell Simon NSH 3305 , 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213 [map]

Please join us for the Year 5 Program Review and planning session!
More details and registration here

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Year 4 review rescheduled

November 8, 2012

The year 4 review has been rescheduled to Thursday, December 13th. See the schedule for more details.
Please be sure to let Karen know if you are attending so we can plan accordingly.

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Year 4 review location and schedule

October 22, 2012

Canceled due to weather!
Stay tuned for rescheduling information.
The location and schedule for the fourth year review has been posted here. Details will be filled in shortly.
Please be sure to let Karen know if you plan on attending so we can plan accordingly.

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Year 3 review schedule posted

October 25, 2011

The schedule for the third year review has been posted here.

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Best Student Paper @ IROS 2011

October 25, 2011

D. S. Yershov and S. M. LaValle. Simplicial Dijkstra and A* Algorithms for Optimal Feedback Planning. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011. [pdf]
Abstract:
This paper considers the Euclidean shortest path problem among obstacles in Rn. Adaptations of Dijkstra’s and A* algorithms are introduced that compute the approximate [...]

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Best Paper Award @ ICML 2011

October 25, 2011

K. Waugh, Brian D. Ziebart and J. A. Bagnell. Computational Rationalization: The Inverse Equilibrium Problem. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2011. [pdf]
Abstract:
Modeling the behavior of imperfect agents from a small number of observations is a difficult, but important task. In the single-agent decision-theoretic setting, inverse optimal control has been [...]

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Best Paper Award @ RSS 2011

October 25, 2011

S. Bhattacharya, M. Likhachev and V. Kumar. Identification and Representation of Homotopy Classes of Trajectories for Search-based Path Planning in 3D. Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS), 2011. [pdf]
Abstract:
There are many applications in motion planning where it is important to consider and distinguish between different homotopy classes of trajectories. Two trajectories are [...]

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Upcoming Conference Publication

March 22, 2010

A new paper from the project set to appear at AISTATS 2010:
S. Ross and J. A. Bagnell. Efficient Reductions for Imitation Learning. To appear in Proc. of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2010. [pdf] [supplementary material]
Abstract: Imitation Learning, while applied successfully on many large real-world problems, is typically addressed as a [...]

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Upcoming Conference Publications (cont.)

February 17, 2010

There are a number of papers from the project set to appear at ICRA 2010 in May:
P. Henry, C. Vollmer, B. Ferris, and D. Fox. Learning to navigate through crowded environments. To appear in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2010. [pdf]
Abstract: The goal of this research is to enable [...]

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