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.
2023
March 7, 2023 Speaker: Prof. Lars Lindemann, Cornell University Title: Spatiotemporal Pricing for Efficient Autonomous Carpooling Markets
February 28, 2023 Speaker: Prof. Manxi Wu, Cornell University Title: Spatiotemporal Pricing for Efficient Autonomous Carpooling Markets
February 21, 2023 Speaker: Prof. Ye Zhao, Georgia Institute of Technology Title: Safe legged locomotion and navigation: robust motion planning and interactive decision-making
February 14, 2023 Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Loianno, New York University Title: Learning Robot Super Autonomy
February 7, 2023 Speaker: Prof. Katie Driggs-Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Title: Towards Occlusion-Aware Autonomy using People as Sensors
January 31, 2023 Speaker: Prof. Bart Besselink, University of Groningen Title: Modular analysis of linear systems using assume-guarantee contracts
January 24, 2023 Speaker: Prof. Michael Posa, University of Pennsylvania Title: Multi Contact learning and real time control
January 17, 2023 Speaker: Dr. Kevin D. Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara Title: Semicontracting Dynamical Systems
January 10, 2023 Speaker: Prof. Matthias Althoff, Technical University of Munich Title: Formally Correct Motion Planning Through Online Verification
2022
December 20, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Maximilian Schiffer, Technical University of Munich Title: Structured Learning Based Online Optimization for Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems
December 13, 2022 Speaker: Robin Brown, Stanford University Title: Quantum computing for copositive optimization
December 6, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Matei Ciocarlie, Columbia University Title: Mechanisms, Sensors and Policies for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
November 29, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki, TU Darmstadt Title: Shaping Robotic Assistance through Structured Robot Learning
November 22, 2022 Speaker: Dr. Antoine Girard, CNRS Title: Symbolic control of nonlinear systems: safety, optimization and learning
November 15, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Stelian Coros, ETH Zurich Title: Physics-based Modeling and the Quest for Intelligent Robots
November 1, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Animesh Garg, Georgia Institute of Technology Title: Building Blocks of Generalizable Autonomy: Duality of Discovery & Bias
October 25, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Deepak Pathak, Carnegie Mellon University Title: Robotics in the Wirld: Continual Improvement by Watching and Practicing
October 18, 2022 Speaker: Annie Xie, Stanford University Title: Towards Continual Robot Learning
October 11, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Nikolai Matni, University of Pennsylvania Title: What Makes Learning to Control Easy or Hard?
October 4, 2022 Speaker: Sarah Li, University of Washington Title: Sustainable and Safe Co-existence: Large-scale Autonomy under Resource Disruptions
September 27, 2022 Speaker: Dr. Johannes Betz, University of Pennsylvania Title: Learning to Handle Autonomous Vehicles at the Limit - Experiences from Roborace and the Indy Autonomous Challenge
September 20, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Ketan Savla, University of Southern California Title: Microscopic Traffic Flow Control
September 13, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Igor Gilitschenski, University of Toronto Title: Interactive Navigation for Robust Autonomy
September 6, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Sabine Hauert, University of Bristol Title: Swarms for People
August 30, 2022 Speaker: Dr. Stephen James, Dyson Robot Learning Lab Title: Sample-Efficient Robot Learning
August 23, 2022 Speaker: Juraj Kabzan, Motional Title: Learning with every Mile Driven: nuPlan Motion Planning Challenge
August 16, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Fei Miao, University of Connecticut Title: Learning and Control for Safety, Efficiency & Security of Cyber-Physical Systems
August 9, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Robert Katzschmann, ETH Zurich Title: Rethink how we make robots to explore the world
August 2, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Zac Manchester, Carnegie Mellon University Title: Composable Optimization for Contact-Rich Motion Planing and Control
July 26, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Spring Berman, Arizona State University Title: Scalable Control of Robotic Swarms in Uncertain Environments
July 19, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Laura Ferranti, TU Delft Title: An Optimization-Based Framework for Local (Multi-) Robot Motion Planning
July 12, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Michael Hyland, University of California, Irvine Title: New and Old Network Models for Design and Analysis of Shared Mobility Systems
July 5, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Title: Cognition Guided Robotics and Embedded AI for Surgeons
June 28, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Takashi Tanaka, University of Texas at Austin Title: Minimum-Information Kalman-Bucy Filtering and Fundamental Limitation of Continuous-Time Data Compression
June 21, 2022 Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Gammell, University of Oxford Title: Measuring and Planning Motion in Robotics
June 14, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Anirudha Majumdar, Princeton University Title: Safety and Generalization Guarantees for Learning Based Control of Robots
June 7, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Cynthia Sung, University of Pennsylvania Title: Computational Design of Compliant, Dynamical Robots
May 31, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Stephen L. Smith, University of Waterloo Title: Learning Motion Plans and User Preferences for Robot Autonomy
May 17, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Lerrel Pinto, New York University Title: Rethinking Representations for Robotics
May 10, 2022 Speaker: Prof. David Fridovich-Keil, University of Texas at Austin Title: Learning Mixed Strategies in Lifted Trajectory Games
Speaker: Dr. Sumeet Singh, Google Brain Robotics NYC Title: Structure for Learning to Control
April 19, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Jeannette Bohg, Stanford University Title: On the question of representations in robotics
April 12, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Giacomo Como, Politecnico of Torino Title: Heterogeneities and Dynamic Pricing in Dynamic Traffic Flow Networks
March 29, 2022 Speaker: Dr. Giuseppe Belgioioso, ETH Zurich Title: Online Feedback Equilibrium Seeking: Stability and Tracking
March 22, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Matthew Walter, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Title: Learning Better Ways to Measure and Move: Joint Optimization of an Agent's Physical Design and Computational Reasoning
March 15, 2022 Speaker: Dr. Giorgia Ramponi, ETH Zurich Title: Inverse Reinforcement Learning from a Gradient-based Learner
March 8, 2022 Speaker: Dr. Tom Van Mele, ETH Zurich Title: A Framework Approach to Computational Structural Design and Digital Fabrication
March 1, 2022 Speaker: Dr. Kenan Zhang, ETH Zurich Title: Games and Control on Traffic Networks
February 22, 2022 Speaker: Dr. Ugo Rosolia, California Institute of Technology Title: Learning MPC: A data efficient model based reinforcement learning strategy for iterative tasks
February 15, 2022 Speaker: Maria Bauza Villalonga, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: Learning to interact with the world: when generality meets precision
February 8, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Jules Hedges, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Title: Lenses as a recurring pattern in optimisation and learning
February 1, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Oren Salzman, Israel Institute of Technology Title: Algorithmic motion planning meets minimally-invasive robotic surgery
January 25, 2022 Speaker: Prof. Andreas Malikopoulos, University of Delaware Title: Separation of Learning and Control for Cyber-Physical Systems
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