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Congratulations, ICL Graduates!
Graduation 2026
Congratulations Dr. Abulikemu Abuduweili, Dr. Simin Liu, Dr. Ravi Pandya, Dr. Rui Chen, Dr. Tairan He, Dr. Hanjiang Hu, Jianlin Dou, Yikuan Fang, Sebin Jung, Bowei Li, Weiyi Piao, Kevin Tang, Han Zhou!
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May 9, 2026
Hanjiang Passed Thesis Defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Hu, the nineth PhD graduated from the Intelligent Control Lab!
This year, Hanjiang also receives the Presidential Fellowship and is selected by RISS Pioneers 2026!
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May 7, 2026
Talk@Siemens - Advanced Robotics & Humanoids - What the Future will Bring
Changliu gave a talk at Siemens Cybersecurity Conference, titled Advanced Robotics & Humanoids - What the Future will Bring.
Slides available.
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April 29, 2026
Talk@NotreDame - Scaling Robot Safety in the Age of Humanoids and Gen AI
Changliu gave a talk at Notre Dame, titled Scaling Robot Safety in the Age of Humanoids and Generative AI. Abstract: Robotics is entering a new era. Humanoids are becoming real deployment targets, and generative AI models are increasingly used to produce policies, plans, and even motor commands. Yet as the...
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April 17, 2026
Tairan Passed Thesis Defense!
Congratulations to Dr. He, the eighth PhD graduated from the Intelligent Control Lab!
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April 13, 2026
Rui Passed Thesis Defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Chen, the seventh PhD graduated from the Intelligent Control Lab!
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January 27, 2026
Happy Thanksgiving from ICL!
Fantastic gathering!
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November 27, 2025
Talk@GT - Unleashing Creativity with Generative Design and Bimanual Robotic Assembly
Changliu gave a talk at Georgia Tech, titled Unleashing Creativity with Generative Design and Bimanual Robotic Assembly. Abstract: Designing and assembling complex products traditionally demands extensive manual effort and expert knowledge. In this talk, I will introduce Prompt-to-Product, an automated pipeline that transforms natural language prompts into real-world assembly creations....
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November 12, 2025
BrickGPT won the Best Paper Award (Marr Prize) at ICCV 2025
🏆 BrickGPT won the Best Paper Award (Marr Prize) at ICCV2025!
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October 22, 2025
Talk@JohnsHopkins - Unleashing Creativity with Generative Design and Bimanual Robotic Assembly
Changliu gave a talk at Johns Hopkins University, titled Unleashing Creativity with Generative Design and Bimanual Robotic Assembly. Abstract: Designing and assembling complex products traditionally demands extensive manual effort and expert knowledge. In this talk, I will introduce Prompt-to-Product, an automated pipeline that transforms natural language prompts into real-world assembly...
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September 24, 2025
Ravi Passed Thesis Defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Pandya, the sixth PhD graduated from the Intelligent Control Lab!
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August 29, 2025
Simin Passed Thesis Defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Liu, the fifth PhD graduated from the Intelligent Control Lab!
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August 20, 2025
Abu Passed Thesis Defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Abuduweili, the fourth PhD graduated from the Intelligent Control Lab!
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August 1, 2025
Changliu Receives IFAC Robotics Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Changliu receives IFAC Robotics Outstanding Young Researcher Award “For significant and sustained contributions in intelligent robot control with provable safety and efficient human-robot collaboration in manufacturing, logistics, and autonomous driving.”
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July 18, 2025
ICL Wins the First Prize ($60k) in ICRA Competition on Bimanual Packing
🎉 Exciting news from ICRA 2025! Our team won First Prize ($60k) in the Packing Track of the What Bimanual Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration Can Do (WBCD) competition! We developed a neuro-symbolic framework—called Skill Graph—that strategically decomposes the manipulation problem to leverage the best-suited method for each component: 🔹...
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May 22, 2025
Changliu Receives RAS Early Academic Career Award
Changliu receives IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation for significant advancements in intelligent robot control and learning that enables safe and efficient human-robot collaboration.
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May 22, 2025
ICL at ICRA 2025
We’re excited to share a packed week of presentations, posters, and competitions by our lab members at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta! Join us to learn about our latest research in safe, intelligent, and human-centered robotics. 🗓️ May 19 (Monday) Talk: Calibrating AI Trust in Complementary Human-AI Collaboration (Hu et al.,...
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May 18, 2025
Congratulations, ICL Graduates!
Graduation 2025
Congratulations Dr. Weiye Zhao, Dr. Tianhao Wei, Louis Li, and Kai Yun!
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May 10, 2025
Talk@AutoDesk - Unleashing Creativity with Generative AI and Robotics
Changliu gave a talk at AutoDesk, titled Unleashing Creativity with Generative AI and Robotics. Abstract: This talk explores how generative AI and robotics can automate the journey from design prompt to physical prototype, reducing human effort in customized product assembly. Using Lego as a testbed, we present an end-to-end pipeline...
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April 29, 2025
Grinding Out a Solution
Lynn Shea wrote a story about our grinding project. Read more at this link.
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April 1, 2025
Talk@UWaterloo - Steering Towards Safe Human-AI Interactions
Changliu gave a talk at University of Waterloo, titled Steering Towards Safe Human-AI Interactions. Abstract: As generative AI and robotics increasingly integrate into daily life, ensuring their safe interaction with humans remains a critical challenge. Safety concerns extend beyond physical interactions—such as preventing collisions—to conversational safety, where AI must avoid...
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March 21, 2025
From Project Funding to a Solved Problem & New Start-Up
Our research team has successfully completed a groundbreaking project aimed at automating the internal polishing process for Siemens Energy’s combustion turbine transition duct pieces. This initiative, funded by the ARM Institute, not only addressed a critical industry challenge but also laid the foundation for a new robotics start-up, Instinct Robotics....
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January 29, 2025
Alan Named 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) Scholar!
We are proud to announce that Alan Jiaqi Chen, a high school intern in our lab, has been named a 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) Scholar for his research project, “AssemblyComplete: Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Combinatorial 3D Assembly Completion.” Advancing AI for 3D Assembly Completion Alan’s research focuses on leveraging...
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January 10, 2025
Tairan Receives NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship!
We are thrilled to announce that Tairan He, 2nd-year PhD student in our lab, co-advised with Prof. Guanya Shi, has been awarded the prestigious NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship for his outstanding research in humanoid robots. This fellowship recognizes exceptional graduate students who are conducting cutting-edge research in GPU computing, AI, and...
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December 18, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving from ICL!
Fantastic gathering!
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November 28, 2024
We are on WTAE-TV Pittsburgh
Check out the article here: https://www.wtae.com/article/carnegie-mellon-university-humanoid-robot/62939682.
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November 18, 2024
Talk@UWindsor - Certification of AI in Robotics Systems
Changliu gave a talk at WashU, titled Certification of AI in Robotics Systems. As AI components increasingly integrate into robotic systems, developing tools to certify their accuracy, robustness, and safety is essential. Although methods for the formal verification of neural networks have garnered attention in recent years, applying these methods...
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November 8, 2024
Modern Machine Shop Quotes Our Work
We are excited to share that Modern Machine Shop has featured our lab’s research in robotics and AI-driven manufacturing automation in two recent articles! These pieces highlight our contributions to robotic manipulation, data-driven automation, and intelligent manufacturing systems, showcasing how we continues to push the boundaries of smart production technology....
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October 30, 2024
Talk@WashU - Scaling Up Robot Reasoning Using Hierarchical Representations
Changliu gave a talk at WashU, titled Scaling Up Robot Reasoning Using Hierarchical Representations. Hierarchical reasoning is an efficient symbolic reasoning approach that breaks complex problems into smaller, more manageable pieces, leading to faster and more optimal solutions. In this talk, I will demonstrate how introducing hierarchies enhance robot reasoning....
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October 25, 2024
Tianhao Passed Thesis Defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Wei, the third PhD graduated from the Intelligent Control Lab!
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July 25, 2024
Changliu Receives the ISFA Young Investigator Award!
ISFA Young Investigator Award! Changliu received the Young Investigator Award at International Symposium of Flexible Automation. The quote is: For significant advancements in intelligent robot control that enables safe and efficient human-robot collaborations for flexible manufacturing. Changliu’s acceptance speech: Good afternoon, esteemed colleagues, and fellow researchers. It is an immense...
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July 23, 2024
Talk@Princeton - Ensuring Robot Safety Through Safety Index Synthesis
Changliu gave a talk at Princeton Robotics Seminar, titled Ensuring Robot Safety Through Safety Index Synthesis. Safety Index is a special class of high order control barrier functions. Its purpose is to ensure forward invariance within a user-specified safe set and achieve finite time convergence to that set. Synthesizing a...
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April 5, 2024
Our Robots Wish You a Happy V Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day! ICL wishes you and your significant one a wonderful Valentine’s day. Our robots are excited for this special date. Destroyer is ready to surprise you with a Valentine’s Lego. Let’s do this! Great job. Destroyer wishes you a happy V day with a Lego heart! Interested to...
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February 14, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving from ICL!
Fantastic gathering!
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November 23, 2023
Changliu Receives the 2023 ARM Champion Award
Congratulations to Changliu for receiving the 2023 ARM Champion Award! The ARM Champion Award Program is an effort to recognize members of the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute who go above and beyond. Changliu has made a substantial impact to ARM through her work in robot safety. Launched in 2021,...
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November 16, 2023
Great Robot Grinding Demo
During the ARM annual member meeting, we demonstrated our autonomous robot grinding system, which is able to perform autonomous calibration, autonomous planning, and autonomous control for efficient weld bead removal. This project has been supported by ARM Insitute and NextFlex, and is in collaboration with Siemens Energy and Yaskawa. One...
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November 14, 2023
Anirudh Named Davidson Fellows
October 13, 2023
Weiye Passed Thesis Defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Zhao, the second PhD graduated from the Intelligent Control Lab!
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September 8, 2023
Simin Gets QualComm Innovation Fellowship!
Congratulations Simin! Read more here
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August 1, 2023
ICRA Outstanding Interaction Paper Award!
ICRA 2023
Congratulations to Alvin Shek, Bo Ying Su, and Rui Chen for winning the ICRA Outstanding Interaction Paper Award. Read more on the paper Learning from Physical Human Feedback:
An Object-Centric One-Shot Adaptation Method here.
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June 1, 2023
Check out the Sweater (a textile and tactile skin) on our FANUC robot
Robot Sweater
Check out the post here
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May 25, 2023
Graduation!
Graduation 2023
Congratulations to Jaskaran for his PhD degree, and Yifan for his master degree!
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May 13, 2023
New Paper Accepted to RA-L
Collaborative assembly demo.
Check out new RA-L paper Robust and Context-Aware Real-Time Collaborative Robot Handling via Dynamic Gesture Commands.
Full video available at ICL YouTube channel.
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April 21, 2023
Jaskaran Passed His Thesis Defense
Congratulations to Dr. Grover, the first PhD graduated from the Intelligent Control Lab!
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March 22, 2023
ICL Presence at CoRL 2022
Check our papers
Safe control under input saturation with neural control barrier functions.
ARC - Actor Residual Critic for Adversarial Imitation Learning.
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December 14, 2022
Ruixuan and Rui gets the CPHS 2022 Best Student Paper award! Jaskaran gets the Best Student Paper Finalist!
Congratulations to Ruixuan Liu and Rui Chen! Their paper Task-Agnostic Adaptation for Safe Human-Robot Handover gets the best student paper award at CPHS 2022.
Congratulations to Jaskaran! His paper Semantically-Aware Pedestrian Intent Prediction With Barrier Functions and Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming gets the best student paper finalist!
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December 2, 2022
Happy Thanksgiving from ICL!
Happy Thanksgiving and happy holidays from ICL!
Fantastic gathering! Enjoying the nice weather and food!
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November 25, 2022
Watch Our Demo on Safe and Efficient HRC
Overview Robots are used in existing production lines to automate manufacturing processes. However, contemporary manufacturing not only wants mass production, but also masscustomization to satisfy different needs from the customers. Therefore, it is desired to combine the productivity by robots, and the flexibility from humans to improve mass customization. Our...
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October 6, 2022
ICL Presence at AIM 2022
Check our paper Jerk-bounded Position Controller with Real-Time Task Modification for Interactive Industrial Robots.
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July 12, 2022
ICL Presence at 2022 International Symposium on Flexible Automation
Check our papers
Robust Task Planning for Assembly Lines with Human-Robot Collaboration.
Safe Interactive Industrial Robots using Jerk-based Safe Set Algorithm.
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July 3, 2022
Task-Agnostic Adaptation for Safe Human-Robot Handover in RSS 2022 Workshop
Rui Chen presented our paper at RSS 2022 Workshop in Close-Proximity Human-Robot Collaboration.
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July 1, 2022
The Force Behind the Mask
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded AFFOA (Advanced Functional Fabrics of America) and 16 cross-institute collaborators over $11M in funding as part of the American Rescue Act’s Rapid Assistance (for) Coronavirus Economic Response (RACER) program. We are excited to be part of the...
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April 22, 2022
Learning from Physical Human Feedback
Check our paper Learning from Physical Human Feedback - An Object-Centric One-Shot Adaptation Method.
Read more on the blog post.
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March 13, 2022
Virtual Lab Tour
March 7, 2022
Congratulations Jaskaran for Passing PhD Thesis Proposal
Jaskaran passed his PhD thesis proposal for the work on “System Identification and Control of Multiagent Systems Through Interactions”.
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March 5, 2022
HRI Demo for President Biden
During President Biden’s visit, we demonstrated our work on human-robot collaboration. Our research is to build intelligent robots that interact with the world like humans so that they can better assist and collaborate with people. While there are various tasks that humans and robots can collaborate in a manufacturing environment,...
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January 30, 2022
NSF Career Award!
Our proposal “Toward Lifelong Safety of Autonomous Systems in Uncertain and Interactive Environments” gets selected by NSF Career Award. This Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant will fund research that enables autonomous systems to operate safely in close interaction with humans, as required, for example, in next generation manufacturing...
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January 27, 2022
ATI's Article on Our Work
ATI shared the story of our project on robotic weld bead removal project. Read the post here.
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December 10, 2021
Congratulations Tianhao for Passing Qualification Exam!
Congratulations Tianhao!
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November 19, 2021
Weiye Presented Our Paper in CoRL 2021
Check our paper
Model-free Safe Control for Zero-Violation Reinforcement Learning.
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November 8, 2021
ICL presence at MECC 2021
System Identification of Safe Controllers Using Inverse Optimization
Safe Adaptation with Multiplicative Uncertainties Using Robust Safe Set Algorithm (preprint)
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October 26, 2021
ICL Mini Workshop on Recent Projects
Learn more of our recent work through the mini workshop. 0:00 Tianhao Wei: Robotic safety with Neural Network Components 11:50 Ruixuan Liu: Towards safe human-robot collaboration 25:40 Rui Chen and Alvin Shek: Real-time Collaborative Robot Handling with Recurrent Encoder-Decoder Attentive Neural Process 39:06 Letian Wang: Hierarchical, Adaptable and Transferable Networks...
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August 15, 2021
Ruixuan's Master Thesis Talk on Data-Efficient Behavior Prediction for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration
Ruixuan finishes his master study on Data-Efficient Behavior Prediction for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration. His thesis can be found here.
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August 15, 2021
Keynote Talk in the RSS R4P Workshop
July 20, 2021
2nd International Verification of Neural Networks Competition (VNN-COMP'21)
The organizers reported the results of VNN-COMP’21 on 4th Workshop on Formal Methods for ML-Enabled Autonomous Systems (FoMLAS) affiliated with CAV 2021. The benchmarks used in the competition can be found here. The final slides can be found here.
The final report will be out soon.
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July 19, 2021
Presentation Video in ECC, 2021
Flexible MPC-based Conflict Resolution Using Online Adaptive ADMM
Feasible Region-based Identification Using Duality
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June 8, 2021
Presentation Video in ICRA, 2021
Distributed Motion Coordination Using Convex Feasible Set Based Model Predictive Control
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June 1, 2021
Congratulations Jaskaran and Weiye for Passing Qualification Exam!
Congratulations Jaskaran and Weiye!
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May 20, 2021
Presentation Video in ACC, 2021
Human Motion Prediction Using Adaptable Recurrent Neural Networks and Inverse Kinematics
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April 20, 2021
Talk in Lorentz Workshop "Robust Artificial Intelligence"
February 1, 2021
Chase gets the Uber PhD Fellowship!
Chase Noren, 2nd year PhD student in the lab, gets the prestigious Uber PhD Fellowship.
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December 8, 2020
Presentation Videos in CoRL, 2020
Tolerance-guided Policy Learning for Adaptable and Transferrable Delicate Industrial Insertion
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November 14, 2020
Presentation Videos in DSCC, 2020
Contact-Rich Trajectory Generation in Confined Environment using Iterative Convex Optimization
Multi-car Convex Feasible Set Algorithm in Trajectory Planning
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October 15, 2020
Weiye gets the DSCC 2020 Best Student Paper Finalist!
Weiye’s paper Contact-Rich Trajectory Generation in Confined Environments Using Iterative Convex Optimization gets the Best Student Paper Finalist in DSCC 2020.
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October 4, 2020
Presentation Video in ACC, 2020
Experimental Evaluation of Human Motion Prediction Toward Safe and Efficient Human Robot Collaboration
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June 24, 2020
Presentation Videos in L4DC, IFAC World Congress, ACC
Robust online model adaptation by EKF with exponential moving average and dynamic multi-epoch strategy
(L4DC)
Why does symmetry cause deadlocks?
(IFAC World Congress)
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June 20, 2020
We received Amazon Research Reward!
The project “Hierarchical Motion Planning for Efficient and Provably Safe Human-Robot Interactions” received 2019 Amazon Research Reward.
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June 20, 2020
50% Demo for Automatic Onsite Polishing
April 1, 2020
Tianhao presented safe control in CDC
Tianhao presented the paper Safe control algorithms using energy functions: A unified framework, benchmark, and new directions in the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. The code is available here.
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December 11, 2019
Siyan presented adaptable human prediction in AI for HRI
Siyan presented the paper Adaptable Human Intention and Trajectory Prediction for Human-Robot Collaboration in the AAAI Fall Symposium Series - AI for HRI. This work was done by Abulikemu and Siyan during their internships in ICL. More information can be found in the poster and the presentation slides.
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November 8, 2019
We published a new book with CRC Press!
The book “Designing Robot Behavior in Human-Robot Interactions” is available here.
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October 11, 2019
Jaskaran gets the Uber Presidential Fellowship!
Jaskaran Grover, 2nd year PhD student in the lab, gets the prestigious Uber Presidential Fellowship.
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September 2, 2019
Tutorial on NeuralVerification.jl available on YouTube
August 5, 2019
The Difference Between Technology and Fantasy
The Robotiq Blog posted an interview with Changliu (link). In this interview, Changliu talks cobot safety, the importance of having realistic expectations of what cobots can and can’t do and her vision of a manufacturing world after cobots.
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July 14, 2019
CARS Workshop on NeuralVerification.jl
We will organize a workshop at Stanford on June 7 and June 10 introducing the toolbox NeuralVerification.jl. Agenda can be found here.
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May 17, 2019
Oral presentation in the 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vechicle Symposium
We will present our paper “AGen - Adaptable generative prediction networks for autonomous driving” in IV2019 in June. Preprints will be available soon.
This work is supported by Holomatic. We would like to thank our sponsor for their generous support.
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May 16, 2019
Visitors from Choate Rosemary Hall
A group of high school students and teachers from Choate visited the Intelligent Control Lab.
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May 11, 2019
Our ICLR workshop paper received the Best Applied Paper Award
Our paper “NeuralVerification.jl: Algorithms for Verifying Deep Neural Networks” has won the Best Applied Paper award at the ICLR 2019 Workshop on Debugging Machine Learning Models. This paper will be presented at the workshop on May 6.
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April 29, 2019
We received a generous donation from FANUC!
FANUC generously donated an industrial robot arm LR Mate 200iD/7L to the Intelligent Control Lab to support our research.
We look forward to developing more pratical methodologies and industrial applications with the robot arm.
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April 16, 2019
Webinar "Algorithms for Verifying Deep Neural Networks" available on YouTube
Deep neural networks are widely used for nonlinear function approximation with applications spanning from computer vision to control. Although these networks involve the composition of simple arithmetic operations, it can be very challenging to verify whether a particular network satisfies certain input-output properties. This talk provides an overview of methods...
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April 3, 2019
Preprint "Algorithms for Verifying Deep Neural Networks" available on ArXiv
This paper surveys emerging algorithms to verify whether a deep neural network satisfies certain input-output properties. We will present the work at AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium Verification of Neural Networks (VNN19) on March 25, and ICLR 2019 Workshop on Debugging Machine Learning Models (DebugML-19) on May 6.
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March 18, 2019