July 2024:
Aiman Munir's paper on "Energy-Aware Coverage Planning for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot System" has been accepted to DARS 2024 Conference. Congratulations, Aiman! Thanks to the collaboration with Prof. Ayan Dutta at the University of North Florida.
July 2024:
Congratulations to Nazish Tahir for succesfully defending her Ph.D. in Computer Science. A well deserving achievement and very proud of her accomplishments in research and contributions to our lab's portfolio!
We wish her the best in future endeavors. Dr. Nazish Tahir is currently in the job market for academic (AP) positions!
June 2024:
Exciting news! Our lab has 4 papers accepted to IEEE IROS 2024 Conference. Three papers are original submissions to IROS and one paper was presentation at IROS through RA-L journal transfer. These papers collectively contribute to the robotics and multi-robot systems research community through novel localization, exploration, and perception algorithms.
Congratulations to Ehsan Latif (Postdoc), Aiman Munir (Ph.D. student), and our alumni Siva Krishna Ravipati (MS) for their excellent work. Check out the publications page for more details.
June 2024:
Congratulations to Ehsan Latif for getting his paper on "PhysicsAssistant: An LLM-Powered Interactive Learning Robot for Physics Lab Investigations" accepted to IEEE RO-MAN 2024 conference. Thanks to collaboration with Prof. Xiaoming Zhai at the UGA College of Education.
Apr 2024:
Congratulations to Prof. Ramviyas Parasuraman for receiving the CURO Faculty Mentoring Award by the UGA's Honors College. Every year the university selects up to two faculty members for this prestigeous award to recognize outstanding support and mentoring of undergraduate students for research at the university.
Check out this news coverage by UGA Columns .
Apr 2024:
Congratulations to Aiman Munir for receiving the "Outstanding Graduate Student 2024" Award from the School of Computing at UGA.
Apr 2024:
Congratulations to Nazish Tahir and Neil Patel for being selected as the Top 100 Employees of the Year 2024 Award Luncheon by the UGA Career Center.
Jan 2024:
Our lab alumni Dr. Qin Yang's (now an Assistant Professor at Bradley University) papers have been accepted to the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2024 and the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (T-IST). Both of these works were performed at HeRoLab while he was a grad student. Congratulations, Qin.
Jan 2024:
Our collaborative work with Prof. Haijian Sun's group at UGA College of Engineering is accepted for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024. Congratulations to the lead author Lihao Zhang.
Jan 2024:
Ehsan's paper on "CQLite: Communication-Efficient Multi-Robot Exploration Using Coverage-biased Distributed Q-Learning" is accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) journal. Congratulations, Ehsan! Check out the arxiv version of the paper here .
Dec 2023:
Aiman's paper on the exploration-exploitation tradeoff in informative path planning was accepted and published by the Sensors journal: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/23/9600 Congratulations, Aiman Munir!
Oct 2023:
Two papers on multi-robot computational offloading and network scheduling got accepted to the IEEE Robotic Computing (IRC) conference as Full papers. Congratulations, Nazish!
July 2023:
Congratulations to Ehsan Latif for successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis. Ehsan has pioneered the collaborative algorithms for advancing the multi-robot systems research, especially for localization and exploration tasks. Ehsan's papers has appeared in top robotics venues such as IROS and DARS, as well as in top journals like IEEE IOTJ.
July 2023:
Our paper on "Instantaneous Wireless Robotic Node Localization Using Collaborative Direction of Arrival" is accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Congratulations, Ehsan. We have open sourced the relevant codes at Github .
June 2023:
Our paper on "SEAL: Simultaneous Exploration and Localization in Multi-Robot Systems" is accepted to the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023). Congratulations, Ehsan. Check out the preprint of the paper here . We also have open sourced the ROS package here .
June 2023:
Our paper on "KT-BT: A Framework for Knowledge Transfer Through Behavior Trees in Multi-Robot Systems" in collaboration with Prof. Ramana Pidaparti (UGA) is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Congratulations, Sanjay. Check out the preprint of the paper here
May 2023:
Dr. Parasuraman is the chair of the organizing committee and conducted a full-day workshop on "Communication-Aware Multi-Robot Systems" at ICRA 2023. Check out the workshop website for more details
May 2023:
Our graduate student Ehsan Latif received a fellowship for a week-long research exchange program at the University of Liverpool. We will collaborate with Prof. Leszek Gazieniec's group on the research intersection between Network Theory and Swarm Robotics.
May 2023:
Two of our lab's graduate students received the "Outstanding Graduate Student" award from the School of Computing at UGA. Congratulations, Nazish and Ehsan!
Apr 2023:
Our paper on "Communication-Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Swarm Robotic Networks for Maze Exploration" in collaboration with Prof. WenZhan Song is accepted to the IEEE INFOCOM 2023 Workshop. Congratulations, Ehsan! Check out the preprint of the paper
Apr 2023:
Our undergraduate students demonstrated a few of their works at the UGA ECE Student Spring Expo 2023. Our lab scored 2075 Robobucks (Runner Up) Check out this event
Apr 2023:
Our undergraduate students presented their work at the UGA's CURO Undergraduate Symposium. Well done, Michael, Neil and Diego!
Mar 2023:
Our undergraduate student received one of the "UGA Best Student Employee of the Year" Award. Congratulations, Michael!
Jan 2023:
Our paper on "A Hierarchical Game-Theoretic Decision-Making for Cooperative Multiagent Systems Under the Presence of Adversarial Agents" got accepted to the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Conference under the IRMAS track. Congratulations, Qin! Check out the published paper
Jan 2023:
Our paper on "Mobile Robot Control and Autonomy Through Collaborative Twin" got accepted to the IEEE PerCom's Pervasive Digital Twins workshop. Congratulations, Nazish! She will present this work in the IEEE PerCom conference to be held at Atlanta in March 2023. Check out the published paper
Jan 2023:
Our paper on "Mobile Robot Control and Autonomy Through Collaborative Twin" got accepted to the IEEE PerCom's Pervasive Digital Twins workshop. Congratulations, Nazish! She will present this work in the IEEE PerCom conference to be held at Atlanta in March 2023. Check out the published paper
Dec 2022:
Our paper on "Rapid prediction of network quality in mobile robots" got accepted to the Elsevier Ad hoc Networks journal. This is a collaborative work with Purdue University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology Check out the published paper
Dec 2022:
Our paper on a new "Analog Robot Twin" framework got accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. Congratulations, Nazish! Check out the Published Paper
Dec 2022:
We wish you happy holidays and a happy New Year 2023. Enjoy a video from our swarm robots. https://youtu.be/7ZhtGTEeMCI
Nov 2022: Our paper on multi-robot localization was nominated for the Best Student Paper Award at DARS 2022 conference. Congratulations, Ehsan.
Nov 2022: Congratulations to our graduate students Nazish Tahir, Pranav Pandey, Ehsan Latif, and our undergraduate student Michael Starks for winning the best poster awards at the SoC Research Day 2022 and the AI Research Day 2022 at UGA.
Sep 2022: Congratulations to our graduate student Ehsan Latif for receiving the James L. Carmon Honorable Mention award at the University of Georgia.
Sep 2022: Our paper on "HeRoSwarm: Fully-Capable Miniature Swarm Robot Hardware Design With Open-Source ROS Support" is accepted at the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Integration (SII), to be held in Atlanta, GA. Congratulations, Michael, Aryan, and Sanjay!
Sep 2022: Our paper on "DGORL: Distributed Graph Optimization based Relative Localization of Multi-Robot Systems" is accepted at the International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) 2022, to be held in Montbéliard, France. Check out the DARS 2022 program. Congratulations, Ehsan!
May 2022: Three of our lab graduate students has presented short papers in various workshops at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Philadelphia, PA. Congratulations, Aiman, Nazish, and Pranav!
May 2022: Qin Yang has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "SASS: Self-Adaptive Swarm Systems". He has pioneered many innovations in the areas bridging the fields of Multi-robot Systems, Multiagent Systems, Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Congratulations, Dr. Yang!
Apr 2022: One paper got accepted to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC). Congratulations, Pranav!
Apr 2022: Two papers got accepted to the International Symposium on Robotics (ISR Europe 2022) Conference. Congratulations, Ehsan and Qin!
Apr 2022: Our lab's undergraduate researcher, Michael Starks, has been recognized with two awards: "Employee of the Year" Award at UGA and the "Best Paper Award" for his paper at the CURO Undergraduate Research Symposium 2022 at UGA. Congratulations, Michael!
Dec 2021: Three papers got accepted to the SWARM 2022 Conference, which is a part of the 27th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB). Congratulations, Ehsan, Yikang, and Aiman!
July 2021: Our paper on robot-robot trust model has been accepted to the IEEE SMC Conference. Congratulations, Qin.
May 2021: Congratulations to Anderson Molter for receiving the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award from the Computer Science Department.
May 2021: Congratulations to Anderson and Ervin for graduating in Spring 2021. Congratulations to Anushka for transferring to GT!
Apr 2021: Anderson presented his work at the National Council for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) conference. Congratulations, Anderson!
Apr 2021: Four of our undergraduate students presented their work (poster) at the UGA CURO Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations!
Oct 2020: Sanjay’s paper on the study of heterogeneity in multi-robot systems got accepted at the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2020). Congratulations, Sanjay.
Oct 2020: Qin’s paper on the needs-driven coordination in rescue robot missions got accepted at the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2020). Congratulations, Qin.
Aug 2020: Qin’s paper on Hierarchical Needs-based Coordination in Multi-Robot Systems” got accepted at the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Conference 2020. Congratulations, Qin.
July 2020: Ravi’s paper on WiFi DOA based localization got accepted at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2020. Congratulations, Ravi.
July 2020: One paper on tapping based material perception in collaboration with SMART Lab at Purdue got accepted at the IROS 2020 conference!