Faculty Spotlight: Joydeep Biswas

Joydeep Biswas is a core faculty member at Texas Robotics leading research on long-term autonomy through his research group, the Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory (AMRL)

AMRL's focus is working to enable robots to navigate and reason in unstructured human environments over extended periods of time..  Recently, AMRL's research culminated in an autonomous deployment on a trail through Eastwoods Park in Austin, Texas. The robot was able to navigate the terrain autonomously, using the insights it had learned from human demonstrations and its own observations.

Amanda Adkins

Amanda Adkins is a Ph.D. student in the Texas Robotics Graduate Portfolio Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work is focused on perception for long-term autonomy, specifically at the intersection of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. Through her work, she is hoping to make real systems much more accurate, robust, and easier to be deployed by non-experts in real environments. Her professional goal is to work in industry or for the government on mobile robots or autonomous cars. 

Outracing champion Gran Turismo drivers with deep reinforcement learning

Joint project with Sony AI, and colleagues at Texas Robotics featured in Nature

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Oden Institute Professor Ufuk Topcu will participate in the new U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Center of Excellence for Assured Autonomy in Contested Environments.