- May. 10 2016: Dr. Nikolas Trawny, UMN CS PhD'10 and former MARS Lab member, now at JPL,
NASA has been appointed as the Lead for the Europa Lander Intelligent Landing System. This will
be an amazing journey! Congratulations!
- Apr. 25 2016: Dr. Luis Carrilo-Arce, MARS Lab Postdoctoral Fellow, joins Google's Project
Tango. Congratulations!
- Dec. 16 2015: Zhengqi Li has been selected for honorable mention for the Computing
Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Male Researcher Award for PhD-granting
institutions 2016. Congratulations!
- Nov. 24 2015: Prof. Stergios Roumeliotis is elevated to IEEE Fellow (2016) for his
contributions to Visual-Inertial Navigation and Cooperative Localization
- Apr. 27 2015: C. Guo receives the UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award.
Congratulations!
- Mar. 18 2015: Congratulations to Nikolas Trawny, former MARS Lab member, and his
colleagues at JPL, NASA for the successful test flights of Mars Landing Technologies [JPL News]
- Aug. 11 2014: MARS Lab researchers interviewed for UMN Discover News [Link]
- Jun. 26 2014: MARS lab researchers appear in the new Google "Project Tango" video [Video]
- Apr. 24 2014: MARS lab alumni Guoquan (Paul) Huang accepted a tenure-track position as
Assistant Professor at the Univ. of Delaware starting this Fall. Congratulations!
- Apr. 18 2014: MARS lab alumni Joel Hesch featured in video "Project Tango: NASA SPHERES"
describing Google ATAP's collaboration with the NASA Ames Research Center to integrate a Project
Tango prototype onto a robotic platform, called SPHERES, that flies inside the International
Space Station [Video]
- Apr. 2 2014: Congratulations to Nikolas Trawny, former MARS Lab member and now Task Lead
of JPL's Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT), the ALHAT team at JPL and the NASA cross-center team
for the first ever successful testing of autonomous hazard detection onboard a NASA rocket, the
Morpheus lander! [Video 1] [Video 2]
Nikolas is also involved in the Lander Vision System (LVS) for terrain relative navigation
on Mars [Picture]
- Apr. 2 2014: BestTechie article about UMN's MARS Lab
and "Project Tango" [Article]
- Mar. 31 2014: "Project Tango" onboard a Quadrotor [Video]
- Mar. 28 2014: Congratulations to Anastasios
Mourikis (former MARS Lab member, now at UC Riverside) for been promoted to to Associate
Professor with tenure!
- Mar. 15 2014: Star Tribune article about UMN's MARS
Lab and "Project Tango" [Article]
- Mar. 11 2014: MN Daily article about UMN's MARS Lab
and "Project Tango" [Article]
- Mar. 4 2014: Ryan Dutoit talks about "Project Tango" at Channel 5 Eyewitness news [Video]
- Feb. 20 2014: UMN's MARS Lab academic partner of
Google ATAP Project Tango [Read more on
The
Verge, TechCrunch,
CNET,
Google]
- Feb. 20 2014: Congratulations to Joel
Hesch and Esha Nerurkar (former
MARS
Lab members, now at Google ATAP) for Project
Tango!
- Oct. '13: Real-time Vision-aided Inertial Navigation on a Smartphone (Demonstration at Walter Library, University of
Minnesota)
- Nov. 7 '13: Esha Nerurkar is the IROS'13 Best Student Paper Award Finalist for the
paper: E.D. Nerurkar and S.I. Roumeliotis, "A Communication-Bandwidth-Aware Hybrid
Estimation Framework for Multi-robot Cooperative Localization," In Proc.
IEEE/RSJ
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'13), Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 3-7
2013
- Oct. 1 '13: "NRI Large: Collaborative Research: Human-robot Coordinated Manipulation and
Transportation of
Large Objects", Stergios Roumeliotis (PI), Demoz Gebre-Egziabher (UMN), Paul Oh (Drexel Univ.),
Ioannis Poulakakis (Univ. of Delaware), Steven LaValle (UIUC), Vijay Kumar, and Daniel Lee
(UPenn). NSF National Robotics Initiative program 10/01/13-09/30/18
- Jul. 1 '13: "Robotics-Mobile Robot Navigation", Stergios Roumeliots, UMN and Bart
Goldestein, Advanced
Scientific Concepts Inc., NASA STTR 07/01/13-05/01/14
- May 13 '13: "Robust, Building Scale Odometry, Mapping, and Relocalization on a Mobile
Platform," Stergios
Roumeliotis and Yousef Saad. Google-Motorola Mobility Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP),
"Project Tango" 05/13/13-12/31/14
- May '12: E. Nerurkar receives the UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award
- Mar. 31 '12: Stergios Roumeliotis and Karsten Berns were organizers of the session
"Robotics for Hazardous Environments" in the National Academy Of Engineering (NAE) and Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), German-American Frontiers of Engineering (GAFOE) Symposium,
Postdam Germany, March 29-31, 2012
- Aug. 1 '11: "RI: Large: Collaborative Research: A Robotic Network for Locating and
Removing Invasive Carp
from Inland Lakes" Volkan Isler (PI), Stergios Roumeliotis, and Peter Sorenson, NSF,
08/01/11-07/31/14
- May '11: J. Hesch receives the UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award
- Oct. 1 '10: CHASE: Control of Heterogeneous Autonomous Sensors for Situational
Awareness", Ali Jadbabaie,
Dan Koditschek (PI), Vijay Kumar, Alejandro Ribeiro (UPenn), Kannan Ramachandran, Shankar
Sastry, Claire Tomlin (UC Berkeley), Stergios Roumeliotis and Nihar Jindal (UMN), AFOSR FY 2010
MURI Topic #18 Control of Information Collection and Fusion, 10/01/10-09/30/15
- Jul. 1 '09: RSS'09 Best Paper Award Finalist for the paper: G.P. Huang, N. Trawny,
A.I. Mourikis, and S.I. Roumeliotis, “On the Consistency of Multirobot
Cooperative
Localization,” In Proc. Robotics: Science and Systems Conference
(RSS'09),
Seattle, WA, June 28 - July 1, 2009
- Apr. '09: TRO '09' King-Sun Fu Best Paper Award for the paper: A.I. Mourikis, N.
Trawny, S.I. Roumeliotis, A. Johnson, A. Ansar, and L. Matthies, "Vision-Aided
Inertial
Navigation for Spacecraft Entry, Descent, and Landing", IEEE Transactions
on
Robotics, 25(2), Apr. 2009, pp. 264-280
- May 16 '09: Esha Nerurkar is the ICRA'09 Best Student Paper Award Finalists for the
paper: E.D. Nerurkar, S.I. Roumeliotis, and A. Martinelli, "Distributed Maximum A Posteriori
Estimation for Multi-robot Cooperative Localization,'' In Proc. IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'09), Kobe, Japan, May 12-17 2009, pp.
1402-1409 [Picture]
[Certificate]
- Dec. 19 '08: Prof. Roumeliotis receives the NSF Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). White
House News Anouncement [Press
Release] [NSF link]
- Sep. 15 '08: New NSF grant: "CDI-Type II: Collaborative Research: Cyber Enhancement
of Spatial Cognition for the Visually Impaired" [NSF - award
abstract]
- July 22 '08: New NSF grant: "RI-Small: Motion-induced Extrinsic Calibration of Rigid
and Reconfigurable Networks of Sensors" [NSF - award
abstract]
- May 2 '08: F. Mirzaei receives the UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award
- Oct. '07: Xun (Sam) Zhou and Prof. Roumeliotis are the IROS'06 Best Paper Award Finalists
for the paper: X.S. Zhou and S.I. Roumeliotis, "Multi-robot SLAM with Unknown Initial
Correspondence: The Robot Rendezvous Case" , In Proc. 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference
on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, Oct. 9-15, pp. 1785-1792
- Aug. '07: 3 MARS Lab students receive UMN/CSE Excellence in Research Awards -
(i) Joel Hesch for the paper: J. Hesch and S.I. Roumeliotis, "An Indoor Localization
Aid
for the Visually Impaired,'' In Proc. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA'07), Rome, Italy, Apr. 10-14, pp.3545-3551. - (ii) Faraz Mirzaei for
the paper: F.M. Mirzaei, A.I. Mourikis, and S.I. Roumeliotis "On the Performance of
Multi-robot Target Tracking,'' In Proc. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA'07), Rome, Italy, Apr. 10-14, pp. 3482-3489. - (iii) Xun (Sam) Zhou
for the paper: X.S. Zhou and S.I. Roumeliotis, "Determining the Robot-to-Robot Relative
Pose using Range-only Measurements,'' In Proc. 2007 IEEE International Conference on
Robotics andAutomation (ICRA'07), Rome, Italy, Apr. 10-14, pp. 4025-4031
- July '07: Prof. Roumeliotis is the co-recipient of the Best Journal Paper Award of the
Robotics Society of Japan for the paper: D.M. Helmick, S.I. Roumeliotis, Y. Chang, D.S.
Clouse, M. Bajracharya, and L. Matthies, "Slip-Compensated Path Following for Planetary
Exploration Rovers" , Advanced Robotics , (20)11, Nov. 2006, pp. 4782-4795
- July '07: Joel Hesch receives the NIH Neuro-Physical-Computational Sciences Training
Fellowship Award
- May 1 '07: A.I. Mourikis receives the UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award
- Jan. 4 '07: Prof. Roumeliotis receives the NSF CAREER Award for the proposal
"CAREER: Distributed Estimation and Active Sensing with Mobile Robot
Networks" [NSF - award
abstract]
- June '06: N. Trawny receives the UMN/CSE Guidant Excellence in Research Award
for the paper: N. Trawny and S.I. Roumeliotis, "A Unified Framework for Nearby and
Distant Landmarks in Bearing-Only SLAM,'' In Proc. 2006 IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation (ICRA'06), Orlando, FL, May 15-19, pp. 1923-29
- June '06: A.I. Mourikis receives the UMN/CSE Excellence in Research Award for
the paper: A.I. Mourikis and S.I. Roumeliotis, "Optimal Sensor Scheduling for
Resource-Constrained Localization of Mobile Robot Formations,'' IEEE Transactions on
Robotics, 22(5), Oct. 2006, pp. 917-931
- Apr. 18 '06: One NASA Center Best Award - Team award to the JPL, NASA Ames,
Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Minnesota development team of the Coupled Layer
Architecture for Robotic Autonomy (CLARAty). Center: Jet Propulsion Laboratory [05/18/06 local
copy of JPL Universe]
- Mar. 9 '06: One NASA Peer Award - Team award to the JPL, NASA Ames, Carnegie
Mellon University, and University of Minnesota development team of the Coupled Layer
Architecture for Robotic Autonomy (CLARAty). In recognition of the accomplishment of creating
and applying a software framework for integrating innovations in robotics into rapid insertion
into NASA's flight missions [03/24/06 local copy of JPL Universe]
- Dec. '05: Prof. Roumeliotis receives the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship award [link]
- June '05: A.I. Mourikis receives the UMN/CSE Excellence in Research Award for
the paper: A.I. Mourikis and S.I. Roumeliotis, "Performance Bounds for Cooperative
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM)," In Proc. Robotics: Science and Systems
Conference (RSS'05), Cambridge, MA, June 8-11, 2005, pp. 73-80
- Mar. 20-22 '05: Packbot stair climbing demo at SSR-RC Spring Symposium, Tampa, FL (video)
- Feb. 15 '05: Packbot stair climbing v0.1 (video1, video2, video3, video4)
