Resilient Autonomy for Extreme and Uncertain Environments

Speaker: Prof. Sebastian Scherer (CMU)

Location: Nvidia Auditorium (link)

Attendance Link: https://tinyurl.com/robosem-win-26

Time: Friday Jan 16th, 3:00-4:00PM

Abstract: Robots show great promise if they can get out of the lab into the field and go beyond a single-operator per robot paradigm. However, the unstructured nature of the real-world requires nuanced decision making of the robot. In this talk I will outline some of our approaches, progress, and results on multi-modal sensing, providing nuanced perception inputs, as well as navigation in difficult terrain, and future directions of our research.

Bio: Sebastian Scherer is an Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His research focuses on enabling autonomy in challenging environments and previously led CMU’s entry to the SubT challenge. He and his team have shown several firsts for autonomy for flying robots and off-road driving . Dr. Scherer received his B.S. in Computer Science, M.S. and Ph.D. in Robotics from CMU in 2004, 2007, and 2010.  

Please visit https://stanfordasl.github.io/robotics_seminar/ for this quarter’s lineup of speakers. Although we encourage live in-person attendance, recordings of talks will be posted also.

Covid-19 related instructions: We recommend wearing a well-fitted, high-quality face covering inside the classroom.

If you’re interested, you’re welcome to join Sebastian  for lunch at Blend Cafe at 12 PM. Please let Yifan (yifanhou@stanford.edu) know if you plan to join.