Robotic Embedded Systems Lab, University of Southern California

Check our recent work on transferring a single control policy from simulation to multiple real quadrotors:

Video: https://youtu.be/Rkj1_gwrtAg
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sim-to-multi-quad

Sim-to-(Multi)-Real: Transfer of Low-Level Robust Control Policies to Multiple Quadrotors Quadrotor stabilizing controllers often require careful, model-specific tuning for safe operation. We use reinforcement learning to train policies in a simul...

Attending ? Check out RESL at:
Mo workshop: Mo-W1 @ M2 - Stephanie Kemna
Tu 2.30-5pm podG - Eric Heiden
We 10.30-1pm podB - Zhe Su (CLMC collab)
We 10.30-1pm podM - Lantao Liu
Th 10.30-1pm podT - Stephanie Kemna
Th 3-5.30pm podU - Jeannette Bohg (CLMC, MPI collab)

Catch us at :
MoAT6.1, TuAT13.6, WeCT13.1

Catch us at :
TUD5.6, WeB5.3, WeB5.8, WeC11.6, & WeD7.8!

Check out recent work from James (RESL) and Wolfgang (ACT) with 49 Crazyflie 2.0 nano-quadcopters!
https://youtu.be/D0CrjoYDt9w

Crazyswarm: a large nano-quadcopter swarm (Sep. 2016) Crazyswarm is a swarm of 49 Crazyflie 2.0 nano-quadcopters operating in a new experimental robotics building at USC. We localize the quadcopters with a Vicon...

ICRA 2016 is about to start! See some of RESL's work in several of the workshops, and session ThAbT2!

Our robotics open house is one week from now!
For a teaser, see some of our robots as explained by 2nd and 5th grade students from local schools.
https://youtu.be/URNoNtClH9Q

Spotlight: Robotics and Coding Academy The Robotics and Coding Academy is a year-long after-school program at three elementary schools in South Los Angeles sponsored by the USC Viterbi School of E...

It's National Robotics Week!
Check out events near you: http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/Events
USC Robotics has their annual open house NEXT week, Thu, April 14th: http://www.viterbi.usc.edu/k-12/robotics-open-house.htm (RSVP for groups, individuals welcome)

National Robotics Week 2016 Thank you to everyone who hosted, promoted, and participated in National Robotics Week 2015! With your continuing help, we had RoboWeek events in all 50 United States. The seventh annual National Robotics Week will be held April 2-10, 2016 and promises to be even bigger! Submit your own event!

RESL has multiple student project openings for USC undergraduate/graduate students! Interested in getting involved in our research? See http://robotics.usc.edu/resl/getinvolved/

Last day of !
Check out RESL at:
SaA1T4/SaA2T4 Workshop: Scaling Up Active Perception
Talk: Active Multi-View Object Recognition and Change Detection
Christian Potthast, Andreas Breitenmoser, Fei Sha and Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Did you see RESL yet at ?
We have one more talk coming up tomorrow, in the workshop SaA1T4/SaA2T4 Scaling Up Active Perception.
In the meantime, why not stop by the USC booth ( #236)?

Today at :

Thu 09:31-09:35, Paper ThA1T3.5
Multi-Step Planning for Robotic Manipulation
Max Pflueger and Gaurav Sukhatme

Thu 11:00-11:04, Paper ThA2T7.1
Active Articulation Model Estimation through Interactive Perception
Karol Hausman, Scott Niekum, Sarah Osentoski, and Gaurav Sukhatme

See you at these interactive sessions!

Today at :

Wed 09:35-09:39, Paper WeA1T9.6
Active Drifters: Towards a Practical Multi-Robot System for Ocean Monitoring
Artem Molchanov, Andreas Breitenmoser, and Gaurav Sukhatme

Wed 14:38-14:42, Paper WeP1T1.3
Global Connectivity Control for Spatially Interacting Multi-Robot Systems with Unicycle Kinematics
Ryan Williams, Andrea Gasparri, Gaurav Sukhatme, and Giovanni Ulivi

Wed 16:10-16:14, Paper WeP2T1.1
Observability in Topology-Constrained Multi-Robot Target Tracking
Ryan Williams and Gaurav Sukhatme

Looking forward to seeing you all at these interactive sessions!

Today at :
TuA1T3/TuA2T3 Workshop: Taxonomies of Interconnected Systems: Asymmetric Interactions in Distributed Robotics
Organizers: Ryan Williams, Andrea Gasparri, and Gaurav Sukhatme

is starting tomorrow! Make sure you check out RESL at any of these sessions/talks:

Tuesday
Workshop: Taxonomies of Interconnected Systems: Asymmetric Interactions in Distributed Robotics
Organizers: Ryan Williams, Andrea Gasparri, and Gaurav Sukhatme

Wed 09:35-09:39, Paper WeA1T9.6
Active Drifters: Towards a Practical Multi-Robot System for Ocean Monitoring
Artem Molchanov, Andreas Breitenmoser, and Gaurav Sukhatme

Wed 14:38-14:42, Paper WeP1T1.3
Global Connectivity Control for Spatially Interacting Multi-Robot Systems with Unicycle Kinematics
Ryan Williams, Andrea Gasparri, Gaurav Sukhatme, and Giovanni Ulivi

Wed 16:10-16:14, Paper WeP2T1.1
Observability in Topology-Constrained Multi-Robot Target Tracking
Ryan Williams and Gaurav Sukhatme

Thu 09:31-09:35, Paper ThA1T3.5
Multi-Step Planning for Robotic Manipulation
Max Pflueger and Gaurav Sukhatme

Thu 11:00-11:04, Paper ThA2T7.1
Active Articulation Model Estimation through Interactive Perception
Karol Hausman, Scott Niekum, Sarah Osentoski, and Gaurav Sukhatme

Saturday
Workshop: Scaling Up Active Perception
Talk: Active Multi-View Object Recognition and Change Detection
Christian Potthast, Andreas Breitenmoser, Fei Sha and Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Check out the ICRA'15 trailer, showing the latest in robotics research, including Max's multi-step planning for robotic manipulation at 3:07!
https://youtu.be/OM_1F33fcWk

ICRA 2015 (English) The ICRA Conference is the largest robotics conference organized by the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society. More info at http://www.icra2015.org. Media conta...

Are you an undergrad/grad student at USC and interested in working at RESL? We are currently looking for someone to help with our robotic experiments! See http://robotics.usc.edu/resl/getinvolved/

Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory The Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory is currently looking for a undergraduate/graduate student worker for a part-time on-campus job starting ASAP and throughout summer 2015. Possible extension into following semesters, based on performance.

RESL is taking part in the USC Robotics Open House tomorrow, Tuesday April 7, 2015, from 8.30am - 6pm
http://rasc.usc.edu/roboticsopenhouse/index.html
Check the RSVP for expected busy vs quiet hours.

USC Viterbi Robotics Open House Everyone is invited to come and join us! Schools, individuals, and industry are welcome to this free event. Reservations are required for groups larger than ten people. Reserve now. Find out what kind of robot you are – take this quiz Learn more about the USC robots For visitors arriving by bus - Bu…

RESL currently has multiple postdoc openings. Interested? See http://robotics.usc.edu/resl/postdoc/

Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory The Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory currently has multiple postdoc openings. We seek candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas:

Interested in joining RESL?
The PhD application deadline is in 10 days!
http://gapp.usc.edu/graduate-programs/doctoral/how-to-apply/apply

Ph.D. Admissions | USC Viterbi School of Engineering Students who have completed a four-year Bachelor's degree (or International equivalent) may be eligible to apply for a Ph.D. program at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. (Some programs may give preference to applicants with a Master's degree.)Frequently Asked Questions

RESL is currently participating at http://iros2014.org/

Coming up:

SuAM2, 8.30-12.00, State
Workshop: Taxonomies of Interconnected Systems: Topology in Distributed Robotics by Ryan Williams, Andrea Gasparri, and Gaurav Sukhatme
Including Joerg Mueller's work on "Cooperative Multi-Robot Control for Target Tracking with Efficient Switching of Onboard Sensing Topologies"

WeA2, 9.38-9.41, State Ballroom
Risk-Aware Trajectory Generation with Application to Safe Quadrotor Landing by Joerg Mueller, and Gaurav Sukhatme

ThFD5, 8.30-17.00, Salon 3
Karol Hausman and Chet Corcos work on "Towards Interactive Object Recognition", within 3rd Workshop on Robots in Clutter: Perception and Interaction in Clutter (by Michael Zillich, Dejan Pangercic, Maren Bennewitz, Justus Piater, Maria Fox)

ThFD11, 8.30-17.00, Salon 10
Andreas Breitenmoser work on "Multi-Robot Voronoi Coverage under Actuation and Measurement Noise", within the workshop The Future of Multiple Robot Research and its Multiple Identities (by Lorenzo Sabattini, Antonio Franchi, Dylan Shell, and Nora Ayanian)

Welcome to IROS 2014 Chicago - Home 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago, September 14-18, 2014

RESL is currently participating at http://iser2014.org
Talks coming up tomorrow:
"Active Online Calibration of Multiple Sensors for
Autonomous Surface Vessels" - Hordur Heidarsson and Gaurav Sukhatme

"Adaptive Path Planning for Tracking Ocean Fronts with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle"
Ryan Smith (Fort Lewis College), Philip Cooksey (CSU), Frederic Py
(MBARI), Gaurav Sukhatme (USC), and Kanna Rajan (MBARI)

"Cooperative Control for Target Tracking with Onboard Sensing"
Karol Hausman, Joerg Mueller, Abishek Hariharan, Nora Ayanian, and Gaurav Sukhatme

Welcome to ISER 2014 Marrakech - Home International Symposium on Experimental Robotics

RESL congratulates its recent PhD graduates Harshvardhan Vathsangam, Megha Gupta, Jnaneshwar Das, Ryan Williams and Arvind Menezes Pereira and MSc graduate Supreeth Subbaraya!