UMD Computer Science Researchers to Present 14 Papers at Major Robotics and Automation Conference

Robotic and automation experts from across the globe will convene virtually for technical paper presentations and online discussions for the International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2020 conference which will be held from May 31st to August 31st. 

ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference and the premier international forum for robotics researchers to present and discuss their work.

UMD Computer Science researchers, some of who are also faculty members of Maryland Robotics Center (MRC),  will present 14 papers at the conference.  UMD MRC faculty and students publish a total of 16 papers at IEEE ICRA 2020 this year, tied with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor among the Big Ten Universities.

Assistant Professor Pratap Tokekar will also be organizing an online workshop on the foundation of multi-robot systems, along with researchers from Stony Brook and University of Pennsylvania. 

More information on the conference can be found here.

Papers at ICRA 2020-

AVOT: Audio-Visual Object Tracking of Multiple Objects for Robotics

Justin Wilson and Ming C. Lin - Paper

DCAD: Decentralized Collision Avoidance with Dynamics Constraints for Agile Quadrotor Swarms

Senthil Hariharan Arul, Dinesh Manocha- Paper

RoadTrack: Realtime Tracking of Road Agents in Dense and Heterogeneous Environments [Video]

Rohan Chandra, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Tanmay Randhavane, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha Paper

GraphRQI: Classifying Driver Behaviors Using Graph Spectrums [Video]

Rohan Chandra, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Trisha Mittal, Xiaoyu Li, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha Paper

Learning Resilient Behaviors for Navigation under Uncertainty Environments

Tingxiang Fan, Pinxin Long, Wenxi Liu, Jia Pan, Ruigang Yang, Dinesh Manocha- Paper

Experimental Comparison of Decentralized Task Allocation Algorithms under Imperfect Communication [Video]

Sharan Nayak, Suyash Yeotikar, Estefany Carrillo, Eliot Rudnick-Cohen, Mohamed Khalid M Jaffar, Ruchir Patel, Shapour Azarm, Jeffrey Herrmann, Huan Xu, Michael W. Otte- Paper

Grasping Fragile Objects Using a Stress-Minimization Metric

Zherong Pan, Xifeng Gao, Dinesh Manocha- Paper

Decentralized Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems Using a Decentralized Genetic Algorithm [Video]

Ruchir Patel, Eliot Rudnick-Cohen, Shapour Azarm, Michael W. Otte, Huan Xu, Jeffrey Herrmann-Abstract

Reactive Navigation under Non-Parametric Uncertainty through Hilbert Space Embedding of Probabilistic Velocity Obstacles

SriSai Naga Jyotish Poonganam, Bharath Gopalakrishnan, Venkata Seetharama Sai Bhargav Kumar Avula, Arun Kumar Singh, Madhava Krishna, Dinesh Manocha- Paper

EVDodgeNet: Deep Dynamic Obstacle Dodging with Event Cameras [Video]

Nitin Sanket, Chethan Parameshwara, Chahat Singh, Ashwin Varghese Kuruttukulam, Cornelia Fermuller, Davide Scaramuzza, Yiannis Aloimonos- Paper

DenseCAvoid: Real-Time Navigation in Dense Crowds Using Anticipatory Behaviors [Video]

Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy, Jing Liang, Utsav Patel, Tianrui Guan, Rohan Chandra, Dinesh Manocha- Paper

Realtime Simulation of Thin-Shell Deformable Materials Using CNN-Based Mesh Embedding [Video]

Qingyang Tan, Zherong Pan, Lin Gao, Dinesh Manocha- Paper

Sensor Assignment Algorithms to Improve Observability While Tracking Targets [Video]

Lifeng Zhou, Pratap Tokekar -Paper

Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Planning [Video]

Lifeng Zhou, Vasileios Tzoumas, George J. Pappas, Pratap Tokekar- Paper