Two papers and a workshop at IROS 2024!
Members of the STARS Laboratory will be at IROS 2024 in Abu Dhabi! We will present two papers on work led by Oliver Limoyo: O. Limoyo, J. Li, D. Rivkin, J. Kelly, and G. Dudek, “Photobot: Reference-guided interactive photog- raphy via natural language,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11061. O. Limoyo, A. Konar, T. Ablett, J. Kelly, F. R. Hogan, and G. Dudek, “Working backwards: Learning to place by picking,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), 2024. [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02352. Prof. Kelly will also present at the “From Geometry to General Autonomy of Robotic Systems” workshop on Tuesday. See you in the UAE! Paper presentation times: Wednesday, October 16, 09:00-10:00 PhotoBot: Reference-Guided Interactive Photography Via Natural Language Thursday, October 17, 17:45-18:00, Working Backwards: Learning to Place by Picking
Prof. Kelly receives IEEE RAM Outstanding AE Award
Our own Prof. Kelly received the IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine’s Outstanding Associated Editor Award for 2024. The award was presented at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan. Congratulations to all the awardees!
We’re celebrating 10 years of STARS!
We’re celebrating 10 years of research in the STARS Laboratory in 2023-2024! The lab was founded and began operating in June of 2013. We’d like to thank all of the lab members and research partners for making the last decade an exiting one! Robotics continues to grow rapidly as a field, and we’re looking forward to the next 10 years!
Olivier Lamarre’s latest preprint featured on Phys.org front page!
Thanks to Phys.org for running a feature all about the recent preprint article by Olivier Lamarre (STARS) and Shantanu Malhotra (NASA JPL)! The article describes how to define recovery policies to ensure that a solar-powered rover remains safe (i.e., limits the risk of complete battery depletion) while travelling through permanently shadowed regions (at, e.g., the lunar south pole). The full article is under review; read the preprint on arXiv here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16786
Alumnus Filip Marić recognized as U of T Engineering “Grad to Watch”!
The University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering has released their annual list of Grads to Watch (2023), and we’re delighted that STARS Laboratory alumnus Flip Marić is part of the cohort! Filip’s PhD work focused on geometric methods for robotic manipulation; he was a Joint Educational Placement (JEP) student, co-supervised by Ivan Petrović in the LAMoR group at the University of Zagreb. Filip is now a research scientist at the Samsung AI Centre in Montreal. The full story is available here. Congratulations Filip!
