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Motion is all around us. Motion is particularly interesting when it has many degrees of freedom. This talk covers the design, sensing, and planning for snake, multi-agent and modular robot high DOF…
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Howie Choset Date
February 22nd, 2023
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Our group develops new light-based technologies for in vivo imaging and sensing of the brain and eye, with the goal of understanding what goes wrong in disease and detecting it earlier. Starting with…
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Vivek Srinivasan Date
March 6th, 2023
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Cristopher Niell Date
February 27th, 2023
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Scientific challenges that underlie efficient energy storage, chemical conversions and separations, and quantum computing may be addressed using unconventional mass spectrometry techniques that…
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Grant E. Johnson Date
February 21st, 2023
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Autonomous robots have the incredible potential to aid people by taking on difficult tasks and working alongside us. However, it will be difficult to trust robots in widespread deployment without…
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Shreyas Kousik Date
February 8th, 2023
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Predictive coding is a theory of brain function that assumes the brain contains an internal model of the world, which constantly generates predictions about our environment, and updates the…
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Farzaneh Najafi Date
February 6th, 2023
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Marla Feller Date
January 30th, 2023
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There is no doubt that cognition and intelligence are the results of neural activity - but how, exactly? How do molecules, neurons, and synapses give rise to reasoning, language, plans, stories, art,…
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Christos Padaimitriou Date
January 23rd, 2023
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Compared to vision, the complementary sense of touch has yet to be broadly integrated into robotic systems that physically interact with the world. An artificial sense of touch is especially useful…
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Veronica Santos Date
January 11th, 2023
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Alfred Rizzi Date
November 30th, 2022
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Humans are unique among animals not only in
their shared cognitive capacities but also in their remarkable adaptability to
diverse environments. Studies with people born blind provide insights into…
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Marina Bedny Date
December 5th, 2022
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This talk presents a framework based on robust control theory to aid in the certification process of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) flight controllers. Uncertainties are characterized and quantified…
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Mazen Farhood Date
November 16th, 2022
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Spontaneous animal behavior is built from action
modules that are concatenated by the brain into sequences. However, the neural
mechanisms that shape the composition of self-motivated behavior…
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Jeffrey Markowitz Date
November 21st, 2022
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The global demand for energy and water is projected to increase by 40% and 55%, respectively, by 2050. Meeting these targets in an efficient, affordable, and sustainable manner necessitates…
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Akanksha Menon Date
November 8th, 2022
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The development of acoustic metamaterials and the resulted manipulation of ultrasound wave propagation have led to many important technologies that can potentially be applied in medical diagnostics…
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Chengzhi Shi Date
October 25th, 2022
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Contact interactions are pervasive in key real-world robotic tasks like manipulation and walking. However, the non-smooth dynamics associated with impacts and friction remain challenging to model,…
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Zachary Manchester Date
November 2nd, 2022
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