Autonomy Talks are open to everyone and no registration is required. The goal of the talks is the exchange among different groups, inside and outside ETH Zurich, working on innovations in Robotics and Control.
Autonomy Talks will take place virtually, on Zoom. Check out the official webpage for the details.
2022
January 18, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Kyriakos Vamvoudakis, Georgia Institute of Technology Title: Bounded Rationality Methods in Reinforcement Learning-driven Autonomy
January 11, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Sylvia Herbert, University of California, San Diego Title: Connections between Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis and Control Barrier Functions for Safety Analysis
2021
December 20, 2021 Speaker: Luca Ballotta, University of Padova Title: Performance Tradeoffs and Optimal Design in Distributed Systems
December 13, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Mark Mueller, University of California, Berkeley Title: Tightly Integrated Design and Control of Aerial Robots
December 6, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Amanda Prorok, Cambridge University Title: Learning Communication for Decentralized Coordination in Multi-Robot Systems
November 29, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Dominic Liao-McPherson, ETH Zurich Title: Suboptimality and Supervision of Model Predictive Controllers
November 22, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Samitha Samaranayake, Cornell University Title: Algorithmic foundations for demand-responsive transit systems
November 15, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Andrea Zanelli, ETH Zurich Title: Efficient inexact numerical methods for nonlinear model predictive control with feasibility guarantees with applications to autonomous racing
November 8, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Anne Collin, Motional Title: Plane and Sample: Maximizing Information about Autonomous Vehicle Performance using Submodular Optimization
November 1, 2021 Speaker: Erdem Biyik, Stanford University Title: Learning how to Route Autonomous Vehicles on Shared Roads
October 25, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Francesca Parise, Cornell University Title: Overcoming Uncertainty of Interactions in Static and Dynamic Multiagent Settings
October 18, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Negar Mehr, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Title: Socially Aware Autonomy: Game Theoretic Planning and Control For Multi Agent Interactions
October 4, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Roberto Galeazzi and Thomas Enevoldsen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Title: Informed Sampling-based Motion Planning for Collision and Grounding Avoidance of Autonomous Ships
September 27, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Guillaume Sartoretti, National University of Singapore Title: Distributed Learning Based Scalable Collaboration in Robotic Multi Agent Systems
September 20, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Jana Tumova, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Title: Formal Methods for Preferred Motion Planning
August 23, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Sebastian Hoerl, IRT SystemX, Paris Title: Exploring the system impact of automated taxis via agent based simulation
August 16, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Wilko Schwarting, MIT/ Tech Lead at ISEE AI Title: Learning and Control for Interactions in Mixed Human-Robot Environments
August 9, 2021 Speaker: Yingzhao Lian, EPF Lausanne Title: New Perspectives on Advanced Building Control: Data driven and self triggered methods
August 2, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Alexandra Nilles, Cornell University Title: Is Less More? Characterizing Resource Trade-offs for Simple Mobile Robots with Embodied Intelligence
July 26, 2021 Speaker: Carlo Sferrazza, ETH Zurich Title: Data driven, vision based tactile sensing: design, simulation, and applications to robot control
July 5, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Carlo Cenedese, ETH Zurich Title: Highway Traffic Control via Smart Emobility
June 28, 2021 Speaker: Margarita Grinvald, ETH Zurich Title: Dense Object-Level Mapping
June 21, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Kaidi Yang, Stanford University Title: Operation of AV-enabled Future Mobility Systems
June 14, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Nan Li, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Title: Game Theoretic Methods for Safe Autonomous Vehicles On Shared Roads
June 7, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Cody Fleming, Coordinated Systems Lab, Iowa State University Title: Physics and Learning in Prediction and Control
May 31, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Simone Schuerle-Finke, Responsive Biomedical Systems Lab, ETH Zurich Title: Individual and swarms of microrobots for tissue probing and enhanced drug transport
May 18, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Sawyer Fuller, Autonomous Insect Robotics Lab, University of Washington, Seattle Title: Flying, Autonomous, Insect Sized Robots
May 11, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Tichakorn (Nok) Wongpiromsarn, Iowa State University Title: Formal Methods for Control Synthesis of Autonomous Systems
May 5, 2021 Speaker: Kristoffer Bergman, Linkoeping University Title: Tightly Combining Sampling-based Motion Planning and Direct Optimal Control
May 3, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Morteza Lahijanian, University of Colorado Boulder Title: Data-driven Formal Synthesis for Partially-known Stochastic Systems
April 26, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Jen Jen Chung, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich Title: Safe robot navigation in dense human crowds
April 19, 2021 Speaker: Marko Bjelonic, Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich Title: Planning and Control for Hybrid Locomotion of Wheeled Legged Robots
April 12, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Matthew Kvalheim, Kod Lab, University of Pennsylvania Title: Hierarchical Composition via Collapse of Dimension in Dynamical Systems
April 6, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Vasileios Tzoumas, Controls Group, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Title: Algorithmic Foundations of Resilient Collaborative Autonomy: From Non Convex Optimization to Perception and Control
March 29, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Yuxiao Chen, AMBER Lab, California Institute of Technology Title: Towards Safe Multiagent Autonomy
March 22, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Johannes Koehler, Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich Title: Robust control for nonlinear constrained systems combining predictive control and incremental stability
March 15, 2021 Speaker: Yashwanth Nakka, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology Title: Chance Constrained Trajectory Optimization for Safe Exploration and Learning of Nonlinear Systems
March 8, 2021 Speaker: Prof. Sandeep Chinchali, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin Title: Collaborative Perception and learning Between Robots and the Cloud
March 1, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Quentin Boehler and Simone Gervasoni, Multi-scale Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich Title: Magnetic actuation: a fantastic voyage between magnetism and the human body
February 22, 2021 Speaker: James Harrison, Autonomous Systems Lab, Stanford University Title: Bayesian Models for Adaptive Learning and Control
February 15, 2021 Speaker: Dr. Diego Romeres, Principal Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) Title: Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
February 8, 2021 Speaker: Enrico Mion, Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich Title: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Coaching on Driving Simulators
February 1, 2021 Speaker: Matthias Hofer, Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich Title: Development of an Inflatable Robotic Arm: Design, Learning Control and Vision-based Sensing
Jauary 25, 2021 Speaker: Pasquale Antonante, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: Monitoring and Diagnosability of Perception Systems
January 18, 2021 Speaker: Kim Wabersich, Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich Title: A Predictive Safety Filter for Learning Based Control of Constrained Dynamical Systems
January 11, 2021 Speaker: Georgios Bakirtzis, Coordinated Systems Lab, University of Virginia Title: Compositional Cyberphysical Systems Theory
2020
December 23, 2020 Speaker: Dr. Abolfazl Lavei, Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich Title: Automated Verification and Control of Large-Scale Stochastic Cyber-Physical Systems: Compositional Techniques
December 21, 2020 Speaker: Benoit Landry, Autonomous Systems Lab, Stanford University Title: Differentiable Optimization in Nonlinear Control
December 14, 2020 Speaker: Dr. Holger Caesar, Data Curation Team Lead, Motional, Singapore Title: Data Driven Development for Autonomous Driving
December 7, 2020 Speaker: Andrea Bajcsy, Hybrid Systems Lab, University of California, Berkeley Title: Introspective Human Motion Prediction for Safe Robot Autonomy
December 2, 2020 Speaker: Dr. Saverio Bolognani, Automatic Control Lab, ETH Zurich Title: Autonomous Optimization for Real Time Power System Operation
November 30, 2020 Speaker: Dr. Kiril Solovey, Autonomous Systems Lab, Stanford University Title: Large Scale Multi Robot Systems: From Algorithmic Foundations to Smart Mobility Applications
November 23, 2020 Speaker: Antonio Loquercio, Robotics and Perception Group, UZH and ETH Zurich Title: Agile Autonomy: High-Speed Flight with On Board Sensing and Computing
November 16, 2020 Speaker: Andrew Spielberg, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: The Future of Robot Design
November 9, 2020 Speaker: Pol Duhr, Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich Title: Energy Management Optimization for the Hybrid Electric Formula 1 Race Car
November 2, 2020 Speaker: Karen Leung, Autonomous Systems Lab, Stanford University Title: On Using Reachability Analysis and Temporal Logic for Safe and Robust Planning Under Uncertainty
October 27, 2020 Speaker: Julian Zilly, Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich Title: Plasticity in Sequential Deep Neural Network Learning: On how neural networks are shaped through training
October 19, 2020 Speaker: Dr. Riccardo Bonalli, Autonomous Systems Lab, Stanford University Title: Composable Geometric Motion Policies using Multitask Pullback Bundle Dynamical Systems
October 12, 2020 Speaker: Dr. Patrick Schmuck, Vision for Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich Title: Collaborative Perception for Robotic Teams: Enhancing Visual SLAM through Shared Information
October 5, 2020 Speaker: Prof. Dario Paccagnan, Department of Computing, Imperial College London Title: Efficient Operation of Socio Technical Systems: Optimal Incentives in Congestion Games
September 28, 2020 Speaker: Dr. Michael Muehleback, Real Time Intelligent Secure Explainable Systems Lab, University of California, Berkeley Title: Optimization with Momentum: Dynamical, Control- Theoretic, and Symplectic Perspectives
September 21, 2020 Speaker: Nicolo Pagan, Automatic Control Lab, ETH Zurich Title: Game Theoretical Inference of Human Behavior in Social Networks
September 9, 2020 Speaker: Prof. Nils Napp, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University Title: Abstractions Barriers for Physically Embodied Algorithms