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GRASP Laboratory of Robotics Research and EducationThe General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab is a truly inter-disciplinary research center at the University of Pennsylvania. GRASP is housed in the School of Engineering and Applied Science with faculty, students and staff from the departments of Computer and Information Science, Electrical and Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. Founded in 1979, the lab has grown today to be one of the premier research centers focusing on fundamental research in robotics, vision, perception, control, automation and learning. GRASP News and EventsOctober 2008: Georgios Fainekos wins the 2008 Frank Anger Memorial ACM SIGBED/SIGSOFT Student Award (Read more). October 2008: CJ Taylor and Mark Yim's robot featured in the Daily Pennsylvanian, "It walks, crawls and re-assembles itself." September 2008: Mark Yim's presentation at Ignite Philly 2. (Watch video). September 2008: CJ Taylor and Mark Yim participate at NextFest 2008. (Video and Article with Taylor's Interview). July 2008: GRASP Newsletter Spring 08 July 2008: George Pappas and Vijay Kumar organized the 11th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) in Athens, Greece (press release). June 2008: Alumnus Hany Farid published an article about Digital Forensics in the June issue of Scientific American and on Science Now in the Nova Channel. June 27, 2008: GRASP students, postdocs, and faculty participated at Robotics, Science, and Systems 2008 with 5 out of 40 papers and 10 out of 200 participants. June 20, 2008: Robert Ghrist is appointed a PIK Professor at UPenn June 12, 2008: GRASP lab featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer. May 21, 2008: Nora Ayanian wins Best Student Paper at ICRA 2008 (Pictures). May 21, 2008: GRASP Reunion at the Caltech Athenaeum during ICRA 2008 (Pictures). May 1, 2008: Haptics Open House (Pictures). May 2008, Hadas Kress-Gazit has been awarded the Charles Hallac and Sarah Keil Wolf Award for her contributions in developing robot planning methods using model checking and hybrid systems. May 2008, Nader Motee has been awarded the Joseph and Rosaline Wolf Award for his contributions in developing novel techniques based on operator algebras for optimal control of spatially distributed dynamic systems. May 13, 2008, Little Ben is featured on CBS-3 in, "Take a Spin with 'Little Ben'". April 2008, NetSci MURI on Wired. Read More... April 17, 2000, NSF director Dr. Arden Brement visits the GRASP laboratory (Pictures). April 16, 2008, GRASP Symposium and Open House honoring Prof. Takeo Kanade recipient of the 2008 Franklin Institute Bower Award. April 2008, one more innovation success story from our alumni: Celcuk Bayrakdar (MSE and research work at the GRASP Lab 2003) makes the news with his invention, the Roboturk, a UAV for immediate mapping of disaster areas. April 2008, Nora Ayanian is a Best Student Paper Finalist at ICRA 2008 (int. Conf. Robotics and Automations) for her paper, "Decentralized Feedback Controllers for Multi-Agent Teams in Environments with Obstacles" (Nora Ayanian and Vijay Kumar). Mar 2008, The Ben Franklin Racing Team - a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania, Lehigh University, and Lockheed Martin ATL - is pleased to announce the release of our Sick LIDAR Matlab/C++ Toolbox v1.0. Mar 2008, Two MURIs 2008 to UPenn and the GRASP lab: George Pappas wins the ONR MURI "HUNT: Heterogeneous Unmanned Networked Teams" leading a consortium of 8 Universities. Michael Kearns and Ali Jadbabaie won the ONR MURI "Next Generation Network Science" leading a consortium of five Universities (announcement and, first, second and third press releases). In the news cnet.com. Mar 2008, Vijay Kumar, leading a consortium of the GRASP Lab, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and U. of New Mexico, wins the Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Collaborative Technology Alliance grant. (press release) Mar 2008, Nader Motee and Ali Jadbabaie win the the O Hugo Schuck Prize of the American Automatic Control Council for their paper "Optimal Control of Spatially Distributed Systems" (also recipient of the best student paper at ACC 07). Nov 2007, The Micro Manipulation Project was featured on the Microsoft Robotics Studio Blog. read more... Nov 2007, Penn's
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Ben" completed the DARPA Urban Challenge course in Nov 2007, Penn's Autonomous Car "Little Ben" Advances to the Finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge. news release Oct 2007, Hadas Kress Gazit is a finalist for the Best Paper Award at IROS 2007. Sep 2007, GRASP's Summer Academy of Applied Science and Technology (SAAST) is featured on the NFS website. read more ... Sep 2007, The Ben Franklin racing team featured in the "Morning Call". read more ... Aug 2007, The Ben Franklin racing team advances to the semi-finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge. read more ... Jul 2007, Nader Motee has won the Best Student paper award at the 2007 American Control Conference. (ACC2007) |
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