Robotics at the University of New Hampshire

This page gathers together some information about robotics-related activities at UNH.

Faculty

Faculty members with active research interests in robotics include:

Mailing Lists

There are two mailing lists relating to robotics at UNH. Only subscribers can send to these lists, so there is no spam. The first, the robotics.seminars list, is for announcements of robotics-related talks held at UNH. Those outside UNH who are interested in hearing about talks on campus are encouraged to join this list. To subscribe, visit http://lists.unh.edu/mailman/listinfo/robotics.seminars and enter your email address.

The second list, the robotics.list, is for robotics-related news and gossip among folks in robotics at UNH. If you are a student, faculty, or staff member at UNH and you are interested in robotics, you should join the list. To subscribe, visit http://lists.unh.edu/mailman/listinfo/robotics.list and enter your email address.

Seminars

Momotaz Begum coordinates the UNH Robotics Seminar Series. Feel free to contact her with suggestions for potential speakers. To hear about upcoming talks, subscribe to the robotics.seminars list described above. Did we mention that there's free pizza at the talks?

Fall 2019

Talks are held from noon-1pm in Kingsbury N343 unless otherwise noted. There's pizza before the talk and informal socializing afterwards (we have the room until 2pm).

Dec 6: Andrew Kun (UNH)
Nov 22: Alireza Ramezani (Northeastern)
Nov 15: Igor Gilitschenski (MIT)
Oct 25: Kshitij Jerath (UMass Lowell)
Sept 20: Roberto Tron (BU)
Sept 13: Berk Calli (WPI)
Sept 6: What I did last summer: UNH student research presentations!

Spring 2019

April 19: Caelan Garrett (MIT)
March 22: Greg Fischer (WPI)
March 8: Yan Gu (UMass Lowell)
Feb 22: Zhi Li (WPI)

Fall 2018

[ Nov 16: Greg Fischer (WPI) - canceled due to weather ]
Oct 26: Reza Ahmedzadeh (UMass Lowell)
Oct 12: Rebecca Khurshid (BU)
Sept 28: Phillip Long (Northeastern)
Sept 14: What I did last summer: UNH student research presentations!

Spring 2018

May 4: Kyle Wray (UMass)
Apr 20: Devin Balkcom (Dartmouth)
Apr 6: Holly Yanco (UMass Lowell)
Mar 23: Tariq Iqbal (MIT)
Mar 9: Loris Fichera (WPI)
Feb 16: UNH meet and greet! Everyone share for 1-3 minutes about their research / teaching interests.

Fall 2017

Dec 1: Madison Clark-Turner (UNH)
Nov 17: Li Yang Ku (UMass)
Oct 27: Myunghee Kim (Harvard)
Oct 13: Matthew Gombolay (MIT)
Sept 29: Stephanie Gil (MIT)
Sept 15: Bence Cserna and Tianyi Gu (UNH)

Spring 2017

May 5: Lawson Wong (Brown)
Apr 21: Brad Hayes (MIT), "Machine learning and social robotics"
Apr 7: Sam Felton (Northeastern), "Soft Robotics"
Mar 3: special session 11am-1pm: Carlos Santacruz (MathWorks), "Matlab and ROS"

Fall 2016

Dec 9: Taskin Padir (Northeastern)
Nov 18: Carlo Pinciroli (WPI)
Nov 4: Jie Fu (WPI)
Oct 21: Kate Saenko (BU), "Vision Meets Language: End-to-end Deep Neural Networks for Joint Understanding of Visual and Linguistic Data"
Oct 7: Abraham Shultz (UMass Lowell), "A Laser-targeted Assistive Manipulator for User Interface Testing"
Sep 23: Momotaz Begum (UNH), "Assistive Robotics"

Spring 2016

May 6: Hordur Johansson (Teledyne GAVIA), "High resolution pipeline survey with the BlueView MB2250 on a Gavia AUV"
Apr 22: Robby Ketchell and Dan Johnson (WinningAlgorithms), "Footprint, a wearable device with onboard machine learning"
Apr 8: Mike Benjamin (MIT), "Open Source Marine Autonomy Research at MIT"
Mar 25: Joydeep Biswas (UMass Amherst), "Deploying Autonomous Service Mobile Robots, And Keeping Them Autonomous"
Mar 4: Miao Liu (MIT), "Scalable Statistical Inference for Prediction and Decentralized Control of Multiagent Systems In Large, Partially-Observable Stochastic Environments"
Feb 19: Sam Barrett (Amazon Robotics), "Assembling Orders in Amazon’s Robotic Warehouses"
[ Feb 5: postponed due to weather ]

Fall 2015

Dec 4: Liam Paull (MIT CSAIL), "A Cooperative Area Coverage Framework that Accounts for Uncertainty and its Application to Autonomous Seabed Surveying"
Nov 20: Ian Vaughn (URI), "Seafloor Mapping". Will be held at CCOM at 3pm!
Nov 6: May-Win Thein (UNH ME), "Systems and Control for Robotic Applications in Ocean and Space"
Oct 23: Chris Amato (UNH CS), "Multi-robot Coordination Under Uncertainty"
Oct 9: Pablo Yoon (UNH ECE), "An Overview of Control Theory Applications in Robotics"
Sept 25: Wheeler Ruml (UNH CS), "One Reason Why It's Hard to Be a Robot: Planning"
Sept 11: Val Schmidt (UNH CCOM), "How to Build a(n) (Operational) Robot"

Thanks to the CEPS Dean's office for their support of the seminar series!

Classes

Some relevant courses include:

CS 730/830 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
CS 780/880 Introduction to Mobile Robotics
CS 980 Human Robot Interaction
CS 980 Planning for Robots

ECE

ECE/ME 952 Advanced Control Systems

ME 743/843 Satellite Systems, Dynamics, and Control
ECE/ME 944 Nonlinear Control Systems

Platforms

CCOM: large C-Worker ASV (diesel), small Emily ASV (gas), small electric ASV, BlueFin?
CS: a Nao, a bunch of TurtleBot2s, two Pioneer 3dx's, two 7-dof arms
Olson Center: ABB arm, Rethink Sawyer
ME: LunaCats, ETNavSwarm, QuadSat
OE: ROV

Outreach

UNH often hosts FIRST high school robotics competitions.

The undergraduates of the UNH Robotics Club often mentor local FIRST robotics teams and are contemplating participating in a VEX robotics competition.

CCOM's SeaPerch program

Other Resources

AI research at UNH

To suggest additions or modifications for this page, please contact Wheeler Ruml.