'MorphEyes' stereo camera system improves quadrotor UAV navigation
The Perception and Robotics Group is the first to use morphable design to achieve a variable baseline stereo vision system on a quadrotor UAV.February 3, 2021
MRC Faculty and Researchers to Present 16 Papers at International Robotics Conference - IROS 2020
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems - From 25 October 2020 until 29 November 2020October 28, 2020
Maryland engineers receive $10M to transform shellfish farming
The team will help farmers tap the economic potential and environmental benefits of shellfish aquaculture.September 4, 2020
Zampogiannis, Ganguly, Aloimonos and Fermüller author "Vision During Action," chapter in new Springer book
Modelling Human Motion presents a comprehensive overview of human motion essential for robotics applications.July 17, 2020
Microrobots soon could be seeing better, say UMD faculty in Science Robotics
Commentary by Yiannis Aloimonos and Cornelia Fermüller notes this alternative to SLAM-reliant computer vision could one day permeate all robotics.July 15, 2020
Deep learning helps aerial robots gauge where they are
Aloimonos, Fermüller, Sanket and Singh develop a simple way to estimate an aerial robot's ego-motion/odometry using deep learning and onboard sensors.July 6, 2020
MRC Researchers to Present 16 Papers at ICRA 2020
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. May 29, 2020
IFIG framework helps robots follow instructions
Through deep reinforcement learning, neural networks can be trained to map joint representations of observations and instructions directly to actions.February 14, 2020
ISR, ECE, CS, UMIACS faculty present 12 talks at Northrop Grumman University Research Symposium
ISR faculty's eight presentations are in machine learning, science of test, cybersecurity, and IoT sensing.November 5, 2019
New EVDodgeNet is a dynamic obstacle avoidance system for quadrotors
The solution was developed by UMD's Perception and Robotics Group.October 30, 2019
Hyperdimensional computer theory featured in Voice of America video
The video features the work of UMD faculty Yiannis Aloimonos and Cornelia Fermuller and their students.July 2, 2019
Helping robots remember
Hyperdimensional computing theory could change the way AI worksMay 16, 2019
Maryland Robotics Center launches a new postdoctoral fellowship program
The program will foster multidisciplinary collaborations among Maryland Robotics Center faculty.September 14, 2018
GapFlyt helps aerial robots navigate more like birds and insects
Bio-inspired sensorimotor framework allows quadrotors to fly though unknown gaps without building 3D maps.July 30, 2018
Northrop Grumman contributes research funding for third consecutive year
Krishnaprasad, Srivastava, Aloimonos each receive $75K for individual research projects.June 8, 2018
Aloimonos gives keynote address at Bremen University Talks
The event theme was ' Cognition-Enabled Robotics: Democratizing a Disruptive Technology.'December 9, 2016
Maynord and Guha are Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship winners
They will receive a $100K fellowship for their project, "Feedback for Vision."April 21, 2016
New research will help cyber-physical systems understand human activities
NSF grant funds Fermüller, Baras and Aloimonos to develop a three-layer architecture.September 16, 2015
ARC Lab holds inaugural open house
Lab conducts research in aunonomy, robotics and cognition.February 9, 2015
Robots learn kitchen skills by watching YouTube videos
Autonomous robots can learn and perform complex actions via observationJanuary 20, 2015
Martins, Gupta, Aloimonos speak at 'Fostering Excellence in Robotics'
Workshop at American Control Conference introduced high school students to robotics.June 20, 2013
Aloimonos interviewed by All Things Considered
Research answers the question, "Does an orchestra play better with a conductor?"December 2, 2012
Telluride newspaper writes about Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop
ISR faculty, staff, students key to the workshop's planning and organization.July 18, 2011
Ching Teo and Yezhou Yang win in Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship competition
Teo is advised by ISR affiliate faculty member Yiannis Aloimonos.May 24, 2011
ISR students Datta, Teo are part of finalist teams in Qualcomm competition
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship competition recognizes outstanding Ph.D. students.March 30, 2011
Aloimonis receives NSF grant for robots with vision that find objects
The research will allow robots to detect and find objects with Active Vision.September 15, 2010
Yiannis Aloimonos becomes ISR affiliate faculty member
Professor's research interests are centered in active vision.August 7, 2009
Toshiba's Yosuke Okamoto begins six-month visit
Engineer will conduct computer vision, image procesing research.October 18, 2007
Honda Visiting Scientist Morimichi Nishigaki gives final presentation
July 2004—Engineer summarizes his research into 'Ego-Motion
Estimation Using Fewer Image Feature Points.'July 1, 2004