MS Thesis Defense: LiDAR with a Silicon Photomultiplier for Applications in Adverse Weather Danton Zhao Location: Zoom Link Abstract: As Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) integration becomes more widespread in the field of remote sensing for autonomous navigation, the impact of degraded visual environments will quickly need to be addressed. The particles responsible for the […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Spectral Ranking Regression Ilkay Yildiz Location: Zoom Link Abstract: We consider learning from ranking labels generated as follows: given a query set of samples in a dataset, a labeler ranks the samples w.r.t.~her preference. Such ranking labels scale exponentially with query set size; most importantly, in practice, they often exhibit lower variance […]

MS Thesis Defense: Rough-Terrain Locomotion and Unilateral Contact Force Regulations With a Multi-Modal Legged Robot Kaier Liang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: The study for legged locomotion has made lots of achievements. However, the stability of the state-of-the-art bipedal robots are still vulnerable to external perturbation, cannot negotiate extreme rough terrains, and cannot directly regulate unilateral […]