Nomination for best student paper award at the 2023 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA 2023), for the paper “Optimal Control of Connected Automated Vehicles with Event-Triggered Control Barrier Functions: a Test Bed for Safe Optimal Merging”, by authors: Ehsan Sabouni, H M Sabbir Ahmad, Wei Xiao, Christos Cassandras, Wenchao Li, Congratulations!
Prof. Pierson’s group had two papers accepted to the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023)! Congratulations! 1. “Serving dynamic demand with multi-resource heterogeneous teams” Mela Coffey (Boston University) Alyssa Pierson (Boston University) 2. “Reactive and safe co-navigation with haptic guidance” by Mela Coffey (Boston University) Dawei Zhang (Boston University) Roberto […]
Professor Pierson was recently named the inaugural recipient of the MassRobotics Rising Star Award. Please check out the link for the full press release: MassRobotics Announces Winner of Inaugural Robotics Medal Recognizing Accomplishments of Women in Robotics; Winner Received $50K
New book1: Safe Autonomy with Control Barrier Functions Wei Xiao, Christos G. Cassandras, Calin Belta, Safe Autonomy with Control Barrier Functions, Springer, 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27576-0 About the book: This book presents the concept of Control Barrier Function (CBF), which captures the evolution of safety requirements during the execution of a system and can be used […]
Congratulations to Mela Coffey and Brennan Brodt, who both received travel awards from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society to attend the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in London, UK. Additionally, Mela won Best Graduate Student Portfolio in the the 2023 Boston University College of Engineering Design Portfolio Contest. Mela also […]
Professor Pierson recently won a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her proposal entitled “Decentralized and Online Planning for Emergent Cooperation in Multi-Robot Teams.” The total expected amount of the award is $599,998, with a duration of five years starting March 2023. Award Abstract: Mobile robot teams can […]
There are 2 papers from Boston University accepted at the 2023 Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (L4DC)! Congratulations! CatlNet: Learning Communication and Coordination Policies from CaTL+ Specifications Wenliang Liu (Boston University) Kevin Leahy Zachary Serlin Calin Belta (Boston University) Time-Incremental Learning of Temporal Logic Classifiers Using Decision Trees Erfan Aasi (Boston University) Minyu Cai […]
There are 2 papers from Boston University accepted at the 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC 2023)! Congratulations! 1. A Graph-Based Approach to Generate Energy-Optimal Robot Trajectories in Polygonal Environments Logan Beaver (Boston University) Roberto Tron (Boston University) Christos Cassandras (Boston University) 2. Optimal Merging Control of an Autonomous Vehicle […]
There are 4 papers from Boston University accepted at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)! Congratulations! 1. Heterogeneous Coverage and Multi-Resource Allocation in Supply-Constrained Teams Mela Coffey (Boston University) Alyssa Pierson (Boston University) 2. Obscuring Objectives with Pareto-Optimal Privacy-Aware Trajectories in Multi-Robot Coverage Brennan Brodt (Boston University) Alyssa Pierson (Boston […]
There are 12 papers from BU Robotics Lab accepted at the 2023 American Control Conference (ACC 2023)! Congratulations! 1. REACTMIN: Reactive Scanning Based Single Particle Tracking Using a Minimum of Light Vickers, Nicholas A. (Boston University) Subedi, Sandip (Boston University) Andersson, Sean B. (Boston University) 2. Constraint-Driven Optimal Control for Emergent Swarming and Predator Avoidance […]