Events

Mar 28 - Apr 3, 2021

Safe autonomy with imperfect information

Necmiye Ozay, Associate Professor, University of Michigan

Apr 1, 22:00 - 22:45

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST safe autonomy invariance verification

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Safe, Interaction-Aware Decision Making and Control for Robot Autonomy

Marco Pavone, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University

Apr 1, 21:15 - 22:15

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST human-robot interactions decision making autonomous driving

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Certification of Autonomous Vehicles: A Regulator-Oriented Approach

Huan Xu, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland

Apr 1, 20:30 - 21:15

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST Aerospace autonomy Certification regulations

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Efficient Reachability for Safe Autonomous Systems: A Mixed Monotone Approach

Sam Coogan, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Apr 1, 19:45 - 20:30

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST safe autonomy reachability invariance

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The challenging path to creating fully autonomous and controllable microrobots

Prof. Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia, Autonomous Microrobotic Systems Laboratory, University of Southern California (USC)

Apr 1, 18:45 - 19:30

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST microrobots autonomy Power Catalytic Artificial Muscles Flight Control Crawling Control

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An Egocentric Wearable Camera for Assistive Technologies

Mohammed Kutbi, Assistant Professor, Saudi Electronic University

Apr 1, 18:00 - 18:45

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST Assistive Technology Egocentric Camera Wheelchair

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Designing And Modelling Soft Active Artificial Muscles “Geometric and Material Nonlinearities”

Marwa Eldiwiny, PhD Student, IEEE RAS Org

Apr 1, 17:15 - 18:00

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST FEMSimulation SoftActiveMaterial Geometricandmaterial nonlinearities Controller design

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The Robots are Coming – to your Farm

Girish Chowdhary, Associate Professor, UIUC

Apr 1, 16:15 - 17:00

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST robotics agriculture artificial intelligence

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On the Fundamental Challenges for Self-Driving Cars

Emilio Frazzoli, Professor, Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zürich

Apr 1, 15:30 - 16:15

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST autonomous vehicles Future Mobility

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Distributed AI: Optimal algorithms for distributed stochastic non-convex optimization

Usman A. Khan, Associate Professor, Tufts University

Apr 1, 14:45 - 15:30

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST Multi-agent systems Nonconvex problems stochastic optimization

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Swarms for People

Sabine Hauert, Associate Professor, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol

Apr 1, 14:00 - 14:45

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST

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Levering AI for Unmanned Aerial Systems: Deployment Strategies

Anis Koubaa, Professor, Prince Sultan University

Apr 1, 13:15 - 14:00

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST

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From one to many, coordination problems of multiple mobile robots

Lucia Pallottino, Associate Professor, University of Pisa

Apr 1, 12:30 - 13:15

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST

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Multi-Robot Task Allocation Games in Dynamically Changing Environments with Application to Trash Collection

Shinkyu Park, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST

Apr 1, 11:45 - 12:30

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST Multi-Robot Learning/Coordination Multi-Agent Decision Making game theory

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Autonomous Vision-Based Navigation and Control for Robotic Space Objects

Hesham Shageer, Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology KACST

Mar 31, 21:15 - 22:00

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST Autonomous Space Robotics Distributed Space Systems Navigation and Control Flying Robots

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Optimization-Based Control of Autonomous Aerospace Systems

Behcet Acikmese, Professor, William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, USA

Mar 31, 20:30 - 21:15

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST

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Xwing: the journey to deploying autonomous cargo aircraft

Maxime Gariel, Chief Technology Officer, Xwing

Mar 31, 19:45 - 20:30

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST autonomy automation Airspace Integration Xwing Cessna Caravan

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Dynamic Explorations of a TiltWing Aircraft Transitioning from Conventional to Hovering Flight

John Hauser, Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Mar 31, 19:00 - 19:45

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST Aircraft Maneuvering Slipstream Dynamic Pressure Distributed Electric Propulsion Nonlinear Maneuvering

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Safe learning and control with L1 adaptation

Naira Hovakimyan, Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois

Mar 31, 18:15 - 19:00

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST

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Core Challenges in Navigation in Human Environments

Jean Oh, Senior Systems Scientist, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Mar 31, 16:30 - 17:15

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST Social robot navigation motion planning motion prediction human-robot interactions

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Human Robot Interaction with Natural Language Logic: a Step Closer

Emmanuel Roche, PhD, CEO of Clover.AI

Mar 31, 15:45 - 16:30

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST

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Using drones, fluid lensing, and network analysis to get a more comprehensive view of coral reef mapping in the Red Sea

Colleen Campbell, PhD Student, Red Sea Research Center, KAUST

Mar 31, 14:15 - 15:00

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST

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Trajectory planning in uncertain transient currents: a stochastic optimization approach

Ricardo M. Lima, Research Scientist, CEMSE, KAUST

Mar 31, 13:30 - 14:15

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST

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Enhancing visibility for reliable underwater visual SLAM

Ayoung Kim, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Mar 31, 12:45 - 13:30

KAUST

Featured Sessions

RobotoKAUST

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Challenges in Marine Autonomy

Stefan B. Williams, Head of School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney

Mar 31, 12:00 - 12:45

KAUST

Featured Sessions

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping machine learning

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Jan 3 - Jan 9, 2021

RobotoKAUST: Short Robotics Story and Video Contest 2022: Deadline Extended

Prof. Eric Feron, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jan 6, 17:00 - Jan 16, 17:00

KAUST

RobotoKAUST

Submission deadline has been extended to January 16th. Notification: February 28, 2022. Following on from last year’s success, the KAUST RISC Lab is back with a brand new story contest, the RobotoKAUST: Short Robotics Story and Video Contest 2022. The contest is open to children, teenagers (TKS G1- G12 level) and adults.