{"id":5,"date":"2016-01-25T10:42:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/roberto-tron\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:04:23","slug":"roberto-tron","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/","title":{"rendered":"General Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/tron\/files\/2019\/08\/crop_RobertoTron_0049.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159 alignright\" width=\"320\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/files\/2019\/08\/crop_RobertoTron_0049.png 481w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/files\/2019\/08\/crop_RobertoTron_0049-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><br \/>\nI am an Associate Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/\">Department of Mechanical Engineering<\/a> at <a>Boston University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining BU, I was a post-doctoral reseacher in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grasp.upenn.edu\/\">GRASP Laboratory<\/a> at University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Prof. Kostas Daniilidis and Prof. Vijay Kumar.<\/p>\n<p>I obtained my PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Enginnering at the Johns Hopkins University in 2012. I worked as a Research Assistant in the <a href=\"http:\/\/vision.jhu.edu\">Vision Lab<\/a> under the supervision of Prof. Ren\u00e9 Vidal.<\/p>\n<h2>Research Interests<\/h2>\n<p>My research interests lie at the intersection of automatic control, robotics and computer vision. I am particularly interested in applications of Riemannian geometry and linear programming in problems involving distributed teams of agents, or geometrical and spatio-temporal constraints.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently working on a variety of challenges raising at different levels of multi-agent systems, ranging from low-level perception (robust distributed data association in images), to single-agent control (enforcing safety with in continuous time with discrete-time control), to robust multi-agent estimation (outlier-robust localization and mapping), to high-level multi-agent planning under spatio-temporal constraints (temporal logic and security specifications).<\/p>\n<p>I am also interested in subspace clustering and its application to motion segmentation in videos. I am the main author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vision.jhu.edu\/data\/hopkins155\/\">Hopkins 155<\/a> dataset, a popular benchmark for multiview affine motion segmentation.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n\n<h2>Information for prospective students<\/h2>\n\n\nI am looking for motivated Ph.D. students to join my group. Research topics will involve the development of new algoritms and methods combining computer vision and controls for robotics applications (see the <a href=\"research.php\">research page<\/a> for details). The emphasis will be on strong theoretical results with a sound hardware implementation. If you are interested, please send me an email with your resume.\n\n\n<h2>Recognitions and Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li>I received the Best Student Paper Award at CDC 2012 in collaboration with Bijan Afsari and Ren\u00e9 Vidal.\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieeecss.org\/awards\/2011-award-recipientshttp:\/\/www.ieeecss.org\/awards\/conference-decision-and-control-best-student-paper-award\"> http:\/\/www.ieeecss.org\/awards\/2011-award-recipientshttp:\/\/www.ieeecss.org\/awards\/conference-decision-and-control-best-student-paper-award <\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>I was a Best Student Paper finalist at CDC 2011 in collaboration with Ren\u00e9 Vidal.\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieeecss.org\/awards\/2011-award-recipients\"> http:\/\/www.ieeecss.org\/awards\/2011-award-recipients <\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>My Winter Intersession 2012 class on model rocketry was featured on the JHU gazette\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gazette.jhu.edu\/2012\/01\/17\/3-2-1-intersession-liftoff\/\"> http:\/\/gazette.jhu.edu\/2012\/01\/17\/3-2-1-intersession-liftoff\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. Before joining BU, I was a post-doctoral reseacher in the GRASP Laboratory at University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Prof. Kostas Daniilidis and Prof. Vijay Kumar. I obtained my PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Enginnering at the Johns Hopkins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11510,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}