Researchers detail advancements in navigation, trajectory planning.
Manocha has been recognized for his significant contributions to the field of virtual reality.
DURIP awards support university research in technical areas of interest to the Department of Defense.
Recognized for pioneering work in computer graphics, robotics and more
Researchers will work to develop novel methods to detect injuries in mass casualty incidents.
ArtIAMAS (AI and Autonomy for Multi-Agent Systems) - Advancing into Its Third Year of Collaboration
The CSRankings model identifies institutions and faculty actively engaged in computer science research, based on the number of faculty publications that have appeared at the most selective computer science conferences.
The conference on machine learning was held in Honolulu, Hawaii.
MRC researchers have a strong showing at ICRA 2023.
His work on how connected autonomous vehicles will help solve common traffic problems has led to UMD honors, prestigious internships and a best paper award.
The ArtIAMAS cooperative agreement with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory conducts research focused on safe, effective, and resilient capabilities and technologies that work intelligently and cooperatively with each other and humans.
Their project is titled, "Ensuring Fairness via Federated Learning Beyond Consensus."
15 MRC faculty and researchers to present 15 papers at IROS 2022
A new hierarchical decomposition framework decouples navigation goal planning, collision avoidance, and navigation-ending prediction.
AVs need to be able to identify aggressive drivers and adapt their own movements accordingly. A new "risk-aware" planner can help.
UMD Inventions of the Year nominee could help prevent spread of deepfake media and misinformation.
TerraPN is a new way for autonomous robots to improve their navigating abilities by learning the surface characteristics of complex outdoor terrains.
Research explores navigational challenges for autonomous vehicles in dense urban environments.
A multi-institutional program leverages UAS Test Site capabilities in search of new breakthroughs.
Reverberant acoustics can aid in speaker separation discernment.
Algorithms for connected autonomous vehicles will help traffic safety in many ways.
The funding will support her work to improve deep learning algorithms that can interpret human emotions.
Funding will support the use of synthetic datasets to improve the accuracy machine learning methods.
The autonomous mobile robot can detect and warn people who are standing too close to each other.
This project will plan a more ideal research infrastructure for roboticists and experts in modeling, simulation, testing, evaluation and software engineering.
GAMEPLAN is developed by Dinesh Manocha and Rohan Chandra.
An alignment-based redirection controller directs users to the best route for avoiding obstacles.
The professor was interviewed by FNN's Peter Musurlian.
They join seven other UMD faculty members breaking into the top 1000 scientist rankings based on their prolific research output.
The agreement leverages Maryland's national leadership in engineering, robotics, computer science, operations research, modeling and simulation, and cybersecurity.
The $68M 'ARTIAMAS' research agreement features faculty from UMD and UMBC.
University of Maryland researchers will present 15 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Robotis and Automation (ICRA 2021) to held on May 30 to June 5, 2021.
Graduating mechanical engineering student to pursue doctoral research at Stanford.
The awarded work focuses on improving the efficiency of virtual agents used in areas like virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), online learning, and virtual social interactions.
The student of Dinesh Manocha is developing systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process and simulate human actions and emotions.
The Maryland Robotics Center will administer the program, which begins in Fall 2021.
The workshop, chaired by Carol Espy-Wilson, identified key scientific and engineering advances needed to enable effective spoken language interaction with robotics.
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems - From 25 October 2020 until 29 November 2020
Beneficiaries include two Ph.D. fellowships in robotics, the Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering, a robotics capstone course, the Black Engineers Society and the Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers.
Project by three MRC faculty members was one of six that received BBI seed funding this year.
Funded teams feature UMD faculty from 15 academic departments and six centers and institutes
The NSF EAGER project intends to monitor pedestrian movements, using cameras and other sensors, that will automatically check for vital signs to gather reliable data, and investigate techniques to influence the behaviors of pedestrians to change their social behavior using robots.
Fagan is the sixth ISR faculty member to receive the honor.
Manocha has received the highest honor bestowed on tenured faculty members at the University of Maryland.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020 will be held online from May 31st to August 31st. MRC researchers will be presenting 16 papers at this conference.
Manocha receives the 2020 Pierre Bézier Award in recognition of his technically significant and lasting contributions in Solid, Geometric and Physical Modeling and their Applications.
Dinesh Manocha and Aniket Bera’s latest development on a socially-intelligent robot known as ProxEmo, has been featured in Forbes.
The framework could be used in navigation algorithms for robots ranging from aerial vehicles to autonomous cars.
The algorithm uses tracking-by-detection approach to detect vehicles and pedestrians, then predict where they are going.
Dinesh Manocha and colleagues' algorithm significantly simplifies the data preparation for learning-based grasping systems and leads to higher qualities of learned grasps.
Participants addressed infrastructure requirements of algorithm development and testing for these networks.
The researchers developed a data-driven deep neural algorithm for detecting deceptive walking behavior using nonverbal cues like gaits and gestures.
GAMMA research group uses spectral graph analysis and deep learning to predict urban traffic.
Manocha spoke on “Autonomous Driving: Simulation and Navigation” at the Open Data Science Conference Oct. 29-Nov. 1.
Manocha spoke on “Autonomous Driving: Simulation and Navigation.”
Manocha was recognized for his contributions to geometric modeling, GPU computing, interactive rendering of large complex scenes, and interactive sound simulation.
Data-driven tech combines photos, videos, real-world trajectory, and behavioral info into autonomous driving simulator.
The visit was hosted by ISR Director
William Regli and the university’s Office of International Affairs.
AAAS Fellow Dinesh Manocha interviewed; Robo Raven, Robo Crab and Tiny Terps shown to meeting participants.
Manocha's research has applications in computer graphics, virtual reality, simulation and robotics.
Maryland's is among the first “core swarm sprints” projects awarded in DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program.
Regli, Manocha, Shoukry and Sochol affiliate with the center.
