Vijay Kumar
Nemirovsky Family Dean, SEAS
Vijay studies collective behaviors in biological and robotic systems. He and his group design novel architectures, create abstractions for systems of interacting individuals, and develop new algorithms for cooperating robots. The overarching themes in his research include modeling nature and developing bio-inspired architectures and algorithms, understanding group/individual dynamics, and the design and composition of controllers for robust, scaleable autonomous systems. Vijay’s key challenges include operation in unstructured, dynamic environments, integration of control, communication and perception, and scaling down to smaller sizes with limited actuation, sensing, and computational resources. *Note: Dean Kumar is unable to take on any new Robotics MSE advisees at this time.
Research Areas
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Design and Evaluation of Motion Planners for Quadrotors in Environments with Varying Complexities
Publisher ICRA
3D Active Metric-Semantic SLAM
Publisher IEEE
Learning Local Urban Wind Flow Fields From Range Sensing
Publisher IEEE
Publisher IROS
Active Metric-Semantic Mapping by Multiple Aerial Robots
Publisher ICRA
The Role of Symmetry in Constructing Geometric Flat Outputs for Free-Flying Robotic Systems
Publisher ICRA
TreeScope: An Agricultural Robotics Dataset for LiDAR-Based Mapping of Trees in Forests and Orchards
Publisher ICRA
Trajectory Planning for the Bidirectional Quadrotor as a Differentially Flat Hybrid System
Publisher IEEE
A Compositional Approach to Certifying Almost Global Asymptotic Stability of Cascade Systems
Publisher IEEE
SEER: Safe Efficient Exploration for Aerial Robots using Learning to Predict Information Gain
Publisher ICRA
Any Way You Look At It: Semantic Crossview Localization and Mapping with LiDAR
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Dynamically Feasible Task Space Planning for Underactuated Aerial Manipulators
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Fair Robust Assignment using Redundancy
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Control of Quadrotors Using the Hopf Fibration on SO(3)
Publisher Springer
Cooperative team strategies for multi-player perimeter-defense games
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Coordinate-Free Dynamics and Differential Flatness of a Class of 6DOF Aerial Manipulators
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DC-CAPT: Concurrent Assignment and Planning of Trajectories for Dubins Cars
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Dense R-Robust Formations on Lattices
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Graph Neural Networks for Motion Planning
Publisher arXiv
Graph policy gradients for large scale robot control
Publisher Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)
IMU-Based Inertia Estimation for a Quadrotor Using Newton-Euler Dynamics
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Information Theoretic Active Exploration in Signed Distance Fields
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Mine Tunnel Exploration Using Multiple Quadrupedal Robots
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Mobile Wireless Network Infrastructure on Demand
Publisher arXiv
Multi-robot trajectory generation for an aerial payload transport system
Publisher Springer
PST900: RGB-Thermal Calibration, Dataset and Segmentation Network,
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Reactive Temporal Logic Planning for Multiple Robots in Unknown Environments
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Self-Reconfiguration in Response to Faults in Modular Aerial Systems
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
SLOAM: Semantic lidar odometry and mapping for forest inventory
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Trajectory optimization on manifolds with applications to quadrotor systems
Publisher SAGE Publications
Adaptive Partitioning for Cooperative Multi-agent Perimeter Defense
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Evaluating Robust, Perception Based Controllers with Quadrotors
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Feedback Enhanced Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
IMU-Based Pedestrian Dead Reckoning with Learned Motion Model
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Analysis of ground effect for small-scale uavs in forward flight
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Autonomous inspection of a containment vessel using a micro aerial vehicle
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Autonomous Precision Pouring From Unknown Containers
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Autonomous vehicle for mapping store layout
Publisher US Patent
Catalytic antimicrobial robots for biofilm eradication
Publisher Science Robotics
Cellular expression through morphogen delivery by light activated magnetic microrobots
Publisher Springer
Publisher Journal of Field Robotics
Decentralization of Multiagent Policies by Learning What to Communicate
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Design and control of aerial modules for inflight self-disassembly
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publisher arXiv
Dfusenet: Deep fusion of rgb and sparse depth information for image guided dense depth completion
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Guest Editorial: Special section on “Foundations of resilience for networked robotic systems
Publisher Springer
Inertial Yaw-Independent Velocity and Attitude Estimation for High-Speed Quadrotor Flight
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Inverse Optimal Planning for Air Traffic Control
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Learning Safe Unlabeled Multi-Robot Planning with Motion Constraints
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Mavnet: An effective semantic segmentation micro-network for mav-based tasks
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ModQuad-Vi: A Vision-Based Self-Assembling Modular Quadrotor
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Monocular Camera Based Fruit Counting and Mapping with Semantic Data Association
Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Nanoliter Fluid Handling for Microbiology Via Levitated Magnetic Microrobots
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Online estimation of geometric and inertia parameters for multirotor aerial vehicles
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Real Time Dense Depth Estimation by Fusing Stereo with Sparse Depth Measurements
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Realization of -Robust Formations in the Plane Using Control Barrier Functions
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Resilient backbones in hexagonal robot formations
Publisher Springer
Team composition for perimeter defense with patrollers and defenders
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The open vision computer: An integrated sensing and compute system for mobile robots
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Trajectory Tracking with Velocity Constraints Using Control Barrier Functions
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publisher arXiv
3D Micromolding of Small-Scale Biological Robots
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
A complete algorithm for generating safe trajectories for multi-robot teams
Publisher Springer
A flying gripper based on cuboid modular robots
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
A Survey on Aerial Swarm Robotics
Publisher IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Aggressive Flight With Suspended Payloads Using Vision-Based Control
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Anytime Planning for Decentralized Multirobot Active Information Gathering
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Approximating Explicit Model Predictive Control Using Constrained Neural Networks
Publisher IEEE American Control Conference (ACC)
Publisher Annual Reveiws
Publisher SAGE Publications
Autonomous navigation of micro aerial vehicles using high-rate and low-cost sensors
Publisher Springer
Autonomous robotic exploration using a utility function based on Rényi’s general theory of entropy
Publisher Autonomous Robots
Cell Tracking with Deep Learning and the Viterbi Algorithm
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Collaborative multiagent reinforcement learning in homogeneous swarms
Publisher International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Controlled Delivery of Signaling Molecules using Magnetic Microrobots
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Dense 3-d mapping with spatial correlation via gaussian filtering
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Design guarantees for resilient robot formations on lattices
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Experiments and open-loop control of multiple catalytic microrobots
Publisher Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics (JMBR)
Experiments in fast, autonomous, gps-denied quadrotor flight
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fast, autonomous flight in GPS-denied and cluttered environments
Publisher Journal of Field Robotics
Fast, autonomous flight in GPS‐denied and cluttered environments
Publisher Journal of Field Robotics
Geometric Control and Trajectory Optimization for Bidirectional Thrust Quadrotors
Publisher Springer
Guest Editorial Special Section on Aerial Swarm Robotics
Publisher IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
Human Motion Capture Using a Drone
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Inertial Velocity and Attitude Estimation for Quadrotors
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Inertial velocity and attitude estimation for quadrotors: Supplementary material
Publisher UPenn Departmental Papers (ESE)
Learning Sample-Efficient Target Reaching for Mobile Robots
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Local-game decomposition for multiplayer perimeter-defense problem
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Final Annual Report for Program Capstone
Publisher Army Research Laboratory Adelphi United States
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Modelling and Simultaneous Control of Multiple Catalytic Microrobots
Publisher Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics (JMBR)
ModQuad: The flying modular structure that self-assembles in Midair
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Nuclear environments inspection with micro aerial vehicles: Algorithms and experiments
Publisher Springer
OpenUAV: a UAV testbed for the CPS and robotics community
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Robust Fruit Counting: Combining Deep Learning, Tracking, and Structure from Motion
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Robust Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry for Fast Autonomous Flight
Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Robustness meets deep learning: An end-to-end hybrid pipeline for unsupervised learning of egomotion
Publisher arXiv
Search-Based Motion Planning for Aggressive Flight in SE(3)
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Semi-dense visual-inertial odometry and mapping for quadrotors with swap constraints
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publisher Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR)
Special issue on high-speed vision-based autonomous navigation of uavs
Publisher Journal of Field Robotics
Stochastic 2-d motion planning with a POMDP framework
Publisher arXiv
The gap in CS, mulling irrational exuberance
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
The grand challenges of Science Robotics
Publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
The Multivehicle Stereo Event Camera Dataset: An Event Camera Dataset for 3D Perception
Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Toward Soft Micro Bio Robots for Cellular and Chemical Delivery
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Towards Differentially Private Aggregation of Heterogeneous Robots
Publisher Springer
Towards search-based motion planning for micro aerial vehicles
Publisher arXiv
Trajectory Optimization On Manifolds with Applications to SO (3) and R3XS2.
Publisher Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)
Triangular networks for resilient formations
Publisher Springer
Publisher arXiv
Unsupervised Deep Homography: A Fast and Robust Homography Estimation Model
Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
VIO-Swarm:: A swarm of 250g quadrotors
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Visual Inertial Odometry Swarm: An Autonomous Swarm of Vision-Based Quadrotors
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
A decentralized algorithm for assembling structures with modular robots
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
A Modular Folded Laminate Robot Capable of Multi Modal Locomotion
Publisher International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)
A multi-robot control policy for information gathering in the presence of unknown hazards
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
An aerial phytobiopsy system: Design, evaluation, and lessons learned
Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
Publisher IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)
Autonomous Flight for Detection, Localization, and Tracking of Moving Targets With a Small Quadrotor
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Autonomous Navigation and Mapping for Inspection of Penstocks and Tunnels With MAVs
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Calibration-free network localization using non-line-of-sight ultra-wideband measurements
Publisher ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)
Concurrent Control of Mobility and Communication in Multirobot Systems
Publisher IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Control of multiple microrobots with multiscale magnetic field superposition
Publisher International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS)
Cooperative prediction of time-varying boundaries with a team of robots
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Cooperative transportation using small quadrotors using monocular vision and inertial sensing
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Counting Apples and Oranges With Deep Learning: A Data-Driven Approach
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
Energetics in robotic flight at small scales
Publisher Interface Focus
Energy efficiency of trajectory generation methods for stop-and-go aerial robot navigation
Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
Flight trajectory tracking and recovery in presence of large disturbances
Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
Formations for Resilient Robot Teams
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Improving quadrotor trajectory tracking by compensating for aerodynamic effects
Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Intrusion detection for stochastic task allocation in robot swarms
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Magnetic microrobots for microbiology
Publisher Microbiorobotics: Biologically Inspired Microscale Robotic Systems: Second Edition
Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) 2016 Annual Report forProgram Capstone
Publisher US Army Research Laboratory Adelphi United States
Opportunities and challenges with autonomous micro aerial vehicles
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Optimal paths for polygonal robots in SE(2)
Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Precise dispensing of liquids using visual feedback
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Privacy-preserving vehicle assignment for mobility-on-demand systems
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Rapid Deployment of Mobile Robots Under Temporal, Performance, Perception, and Resource Constraints
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Resilient consensus for time-varying networks of dynamic agents
Publisher IEEE American Control Conference (ACC)
Resilient Flocking for Mobile Robot Teams
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Robust aerial robot swarms without collision avoidance
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Search-based motion planning for quadrotors using linear quadratic minimum time control
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Simultaneous control of spherical microrobots using catalytic & magnetic actuation
Publisher International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS)
SUAS for deployment and recovery of an environmental sensor probe
Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
Publisher Autonomous Robots
The Impact of Diversity on Optimal Control Policies for Heterogeneous Robot Swarms
Publisher IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Three-dimensional manipulation of teams of quadrotors
Publisher US Patent
A column generation approach for optimized routing and coordination of a UAV fleet
Publisher IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)
A design environment for the rapid specification and fabrication of printable robots
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Publisher IEEE Control Systems
A macroscopic privacy model for heterogeneous robot swarms
Publisher Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
A Scalable Strategy for Open Loop Magnetic Control of Microrobots Using Critical Points
Publisher UPenn Departmental Papers (MEAM)
A scripted printable quadrotor: Rapid design and fabrication of a folded MAV
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
Adaptive distribution of a swarm of heterogeneous robots
Publisher Acta Polytechnica
Aggressive flight with quadrotors for perching on inclined surfaces
Publisher Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics
Algorithms for visibility-based monitoring with robot teams
Publisher arXiv
Assembly sequence planning for constructing planar structures with rectangular modules
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publisher IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
Control of microstructures propelled via bacterial baths
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Coordinated path planning for fixed-wing UAS conducting persistent surveillance missions
Publisher IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)
Directed micro assembly of passive particles at fluid interfaces using magnetic robots
Publisher International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS)
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fast autonomous flight with micro unmanned vehicles
Publisher Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop
Formalizing the impact of diversity on performance in a heterogeneous swarm of robots
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Hierarchical strategy synthesis for pursuit-evasion problems
Publisher Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA)
High speed navigation for quadrotors with limited onboard sensing
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Human-robot collaborative topological exploration for search and rescue applications
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Hybrid architecture for communication-aware multi-robot systems
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Implan: Scalable Incremental Motion Planning for Multi-Robot Systems
Publisher ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS)
In-flight formation control for a team of fixed-wing aerial vehicles
Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
Independent control of identical magnetic robots in a plane
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Initialization-free monocular visual-inertial state estimation with application to autonomous MAVs
Publisher Springer
Modeling and control of aerial robots
Publisher Springer
Publisher arXiv
Obstacle avoidance and path intersection validation for UAS: A B-spline approach
Publisher International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
Online planning for energy-efficient and disturbance-aware UAV operations
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
QUADCLOUD: A rapid response force with quadrotor teams
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Restraining objects with curved effectors and its application to whole-arm grasping
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Safe and complete trajectory generation for robot teams with higher-order dynamics
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Safe navigation of quadrotor teams to labeled goals in limited workspaces
Publisher International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)
Smooth trajectory generation on SE(3) for a free flying space robot
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Swarm Distribution and Deployment for Cooperative Surveillance by Micro-Aerial Vehicles
Publisher Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
The flying monkey: A mesoscale robot that can run, fly, and grasp
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
The role of vision in perching and grasping for MAVs
Publisher International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Towards collaborative mapping and exploration using multiple micro aerial robots
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Towards fully autonomous visual inspection of dark featureless dam penstocks using MAVs
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Versatile aerial grasping using self-sealing suction
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Vision-based fast navigation of micro aerial vehicles
Publisher International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
Visual inertial odometry for quadrotors on SE(3)
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
A topological approach to using cables to separate and manipulate sets of objects
Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
Active control strategies for discovering and localizing devices with range-only sensors
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Active magnetic anomaly detection using multiple micro aerial vehicles
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
An approximation algorithm for time optimal multi-robot routing
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
Automated detection, localization, and registration of smart devices with multiple robots
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
Automated Self-Assembly of Large Maritime Structures by a Team of Robotic Boats
Publisher IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)
Publisher IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Control of multiple magnetic micro robots
Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)
Cooperative localization and mapping of MAVs using RGB-D sensors
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Decentralized algorithm for force distribution with applications to cooperative transport
Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)
Design and fabrication of safe, light-weight, flying robots
Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)
Design of small, safe and robust quadrotor swarms
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Devices, systems, and methods for automated monitoring enabling precision agriculture
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
Fast redistribution of a swarm of heterogeneous robots
Publisher EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT)
Five years of ASME journal of mechanisms and robotics
Publisher Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics
Flying Smartphones: Automated Flight Enabled by Consumer Electronics
Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
Information-theoretic mapping using Cauchy-Schwarz Quadratic Mutual Information
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Information-theoretic planning with trajectory optimization for dense 3D mapping
Publisher Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)
Inspection of penstocks and featureless tunnel-like environments using micro UAVs
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Mixed Integer Quadratic Program trajectory generation for a quadrotor with a cable-suspended payload
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Optically addressing microscopic bioactuators for real-time control
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Persistent Homology for Path Planning in Uncertain Environments
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Planning and control of aggressive maneuvers for perching on inclined and vertical surfaces
Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)
Quadrotor kinematics and dynamics
Publisher Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Rapid co-design of electro-mechanical specifications for robotic systems
Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)
Safe receding horizon control for aggressive MAV flight with limited range sensing
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Sensor coverage robot swarms using local sensing without metric information
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Smartphones power flying robots
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Sparsest minimum multiple-cost structural leader selection
Publisher IFAC-PapersOnLine
Special Issue on the 14th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, 2014
Publisher International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
Tightly-coupled monocular visual-inertial fusion for autonomous flight of rotorcraft MAVs
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Viewpoint the future of computer science and engineering is in your hands
Publisher Communications of the ACM
Visibility-based persistent monitoring with robot teams
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Visual servoing of quadrotors for perching by hanging from cylindrical objects
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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The drone from this Penn spinout can fly inside mines without maps or GPS by Technically Philly
June 28, 2018
Faculty News
Penn Engineering Dean elected to the American Philosophical Society in Penn Engineering News
May 4, 2018
GRASP News
SwRI-led Team to Develop Drones for Use in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
March 20, 2018
GRASP News
Penn drones navigate on their own, could save people from peril in Philly.com
February 13, 2018
GRASP News
Microdrones That Cooperate to Transport Objects Could Be Future of Warehouse Automation
January 15, 2018
GRASP News
“Penn Engineering Offers an Online MicroMasters in Robotics” in Penn Engineering
February 28, 2017
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“Exyn unveils AI to help drones fly autonomously, even indoors or off the grid” in Tech Crunch
February 21, 2017
Student News
“Autonomous perching and grasping for micro aerial vehicles” in SPIE Newsroom
February 8, 2017
Student News
Monroe Kennedy and Vijay Kumar featured on Nature Knows Best TV Series
January 27, 2017
GRASP News
“Calling all creatives for new Comcast-Pennovation Challenge” in PennCurrent
January 19, 2017
GRASP News
“The Secret to Small Drone Obstacle Avoidance Is to Just Crash Into Stuff” in the IEEE Spectrum
October 31, 2016
GRASP News
Why 10 District teachers spent their summer doing grad-level STEM research
August 24, 2016
GRASP News
September 30, 2015
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Vijay Kumar featured in CCTV interview, “Dialogue: Charting a Course”
September 14, 2015
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“Summer at Penn: Coding Flying Robots!”: Quinn Wu on his summer at GRASP Lab in M&T for Life
September 4, 2015
GRASP News
July 9, 2015
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June 2, 2015
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February 11, 2015
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February 11, 2015
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February 11, 2015
GRASP News
The GRASP Lab was featured in the Atlantic’s “Here Come the Swarming Drones”
February 11, 2015
GRASP News
October 29, 2014
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September 19, 2014
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July 2, 2014
Faculty News
Vijay Kumar, Dan Lee and Katherine Kuchenbecker – LIVE on the Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane
January 16, 2014
GRASP News
“Roboticists from Penn Engineering take on the world” in the Penn Current
January 9, 2014
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December 4, 2013
Faculty News
October 15, 2013
GRASP News
Penn Engineering’s GRASP Lab, Wharton’s Mack Institute Take Y-Prize Global in Penn News
October 2, 2013
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August 6, 2013
Faculty News
January 28, 2013
GRASP News
“Penn Research Team Awarded $2.75 Million as Part of New ‘Swarm’ Computing Center”…Penn News
January 23, 2013
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Dr. Vijay Kumar in PhillyMag.com…”The Smartest People in Philadelphia – Technology”
November 7, 2012
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August 10, 2009
Ph.D. Students
Research Staff
Alumni
PhD, MEAM '11 - Associate Professor of Computer Science and Andrew and Erna Viterbi Career Chair, University of Southern California
PhD MEAM '10; Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University
Robotics MSE '17 - Project Engineer, MEAM (2011-2016)- Assoc Director, PERCH Design & Fabrication Facility (2016-2022)
Research Areas
- Data-Driven Control Algorithms
- Distributed and Decentralized Control
- Autonomy
- Planning
- Multi-robot Systems
- Networked Robots
- Swarm Robots
- Flying Robots