Information Sciences Institute

An ISI team led by Dr. Behnam Salemi won the Planetary Robotic Contingency Challenge competition at the 2008 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IRCA- 2008) in Pasadena, May 21-22. The general theme for this year’s ICRA challenge was space robotics. The challenge simulated a series of unexpected problems occurring at a planetary habitat, where a robotic solution must be …

The National Science Foundation supported the Voxel research, under an exploratory research grant.

The Viterbi School of Engineering two mentoring winners in each of the categories, including Barnhart’s undergrad award.

DETER is a partnership between ISI, the University of California, Berkeley, and Sparta, Inc.

The system interleaves anticipatory planning with adaptive execution to help the commander think ahead and prepare options before they are needed.

Burns aims at making it possible for a researcher to quickly find out what data exists, and also to make it possible for the researcher to retrieve and query the data from multiple directions.

Yolanda Gil and Jean Morrison were named “Remarkable Women” for 2008.

Kunc said SERC would be dedicated to “space engineering, research, and the build and flight demonstration and test of spacecraft and satellites.”

Modi studied at ISI under Wei-Min Shen and Milind Tambe from 1997 to 2003.

The tour looked in on seven labs, including MOSIS ,reconfigurable robots, the DETER cyber-defense lab; and the Lunar lander project.