UC Merced Robotics

Congratulations to Azin Shamshirgaran for being included in the list of finalists.

Congratulations to all 80 finalists for the Collegiate Award! This award recognizes technical contributions to projects with a high level of innovation and potential impact. See the full list of finalists here: www.aspirations.org/22CollegiateFinalists.

New MRPI grant:

Prestigious Biennial Grant Program Includes Funding for Ag-labor and Wildfire Research | Newsroom By Lorena Anderson, UC MercedJanuary 14, 2021Many of UC Merced's researchers will be part of UC-funded projects with colleagues at other campuses.Two new projects designed and led by UC Merced researchers will address challenges facing many Californians — wildfire recovery and agricultural labor ....

New NRI grant awarded.

New Precision Ag Project Would Help Farmers Measure Plant Moisture | Newsroom By Lorena Anderson, UC MercedNovember 2, 2020The base robot for the new plant-moisture-measuring system researchers are developing will navigate rows of crops to reach individual leaves and stems.One of the biggest challenges in managing crops, especially in large fields, is knowing how much water e...

UC Merced robotics is part of the newly funded ERC IoT4Ag

https://bit.ly/33oSUxw

New Engineering Research Center to Focus on Agriculture Technology | Newsroom By Lorena Anderson, UC MercedAugust 3, 2020Illustration by Julie ColtonBy 2050, the U.S. population is estimated to grow to 400 million, and the world population to 9.1 billion, requiring a 70 percent increase in global food production. UC Merced is one of four campuses across the country uniting to...

RAPID will be on Science Friday on July 12, 2019.

Eating Smarter In A Warming World Our eating habits produce a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions—but scientists are finding smarter ways to grow and distribute our food.

Checkout "The future of machines"

The Future of Machines - Cover

https://norcal-control.github.io/

CITRIS/CPAR Control Theory and Automation Symposium CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, People and Robots Initiative (CPAR) Control Theory and Automation Symposium will be held on Friday, April 26, 2019, 10 am - 5 pm at UC Berkeley. This symposium is the 2nd NorCal Control Workshop, an annual event providing a forum to bring together students, postdocs...

We just won the Best Conference Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE).

"Multi-robot routing algorithms for robots operating in vineyards," by Thomas Thayer, Stavros Vougioukas, Ken Goldberg, Stefano Carpin.

http://citris-uc.org/citris-banatao-institute-award-600000-ten-information-technology-projects/

New project with UCSC and UCB on wildfire monitoring and forecasting.

CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Award $600,000 to ten information technology projects - CITRIS and the Banatao Institute We are delighted to announce the CITRIS Seed Funding Program awards for 2018. This year, 50 highly competitive teams from the four CITRIS campuses at UC Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz submitted proposals for early-stage collaborative research projects. Ten teams will receive a one-time awar...

http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-topics/robotics/robots-to-help-californias-grape-growers-conserve-water

Robots to Help California’s Grape Growers Conserve Water - IEEE - The Institute The machines are part of the University of California’s precision irrigation system

Three new papers will be presented at ICRA 2018 in May:

- T. Thayer, S. Vougioukas, K. Goldberg, S. Carpin. "Routing Algorithms for Robot Assisted Precision Irrigation."
- R. Berenstein, R. Fox, S. McKinley, S. Carpin, K. Goldberg. "Robustly Adjusting Indoor Drip Irrigation Emitters with the Toyota HSR Robot."
- S. Liu, S. Carpin. "Grasp Quality Evaluation with Whole Arm Kinematic Noise Propagation."

The first two are related to our ongoing RAPID project.

Moreover, our paper "Coordinated Search With Multiple Robots Arranged in Line Formations" recently accepted for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics will be presented at ICRA, too.

See you in Brisbane!