Robotic Embedded Systems Lab, University of Southern California

03/14/2019

Check our recent work on transferring a single control policy from simulation to multiple real quadrotors:

Video: https://youtu.be/Rkj1_gwrtAg
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sim-to-multi-quad

Quadrotor stabilizing controllers often require careful, model-specific tuning for safe operation. We use reinforcement learning to train policies in a simul...

05/20/2018

Attending ? Check out RESL at:
Mo workshop: Mo-W1 @ M2 - Stephanie Kemna
Tu 2.30-5pm podG - Eric Heiden
We 10.30-1pm podB - Zhe Su (CLMC collab)
We 10.30-1pm podM - Lantao Liu
Th 10.30-1pm podT - Stephanie Kemna
Th 3-5.30pm podU - Jeannette Bohg (CLMC, MPI collab)

09/26/2017

Catch us at :
MoAT6.1, TuAT13.6, WeCT13.1

05/30/2017

Catch us at :
TUD5.6, WeB5.3, WeB5.8, WeC11.6, & WeD7.8!

11/05/2016

Check out recent work from James (RESL) and Wolfgang (ACT) with 49 Crazyflie 2.0 nano-quadcopters!
https://youtu.be/D0CrjoYDt9w

Crazyswarm is a swarm of 49 Crazyflie 2.0 nano-quadcopters operating in a new experimental robotics building at USC. We localize the quadcopters with a Vicon...

05/15/2016

ICRA 2016 is about to start! See some of RESL's work in several of the workshops, and session ThAbT2!

04/07/2016

Our robotics open house is one week from now!
For a teaser, see some of our robots as explained by 2nd and 5th grade students from local schools.
https://youtu.be/URNoNtClH9Q

The Robotics and Coding Academy is a year-long after-school program at three elementary schools in South Los Angeles sponsored by the USC Viterbi School of E...

04/04/2016

It's National Robotics Week!
Check out events near you: http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/Events
USC Robotics has their annual open house NEXT week, Thu, April 14th: http://www.viterbi.usc.edu/k-12/robotics-open-house.htm (RSVP for groups, individuals welcome)

Thank you to everyone who hosted, promoted, and participated in National Robotics Week 2015! With your continuing help, we had RoboWeek events in all 50 United States. The seventh annual National Robotics Week will be held April 2-10, 2016 and promises to be even bigger! Submit your own event!

10/09/2015

RESL has multiple student project openings for USC undergraduate/graduate students! Interested in getting involved in our research? See http://robotics.usc.edu/resl/getinvolved/

05/30/2015

Last day of !
Check out RESL at:
SaA1T4/SaA2T4 Workshop: Scaling Up Active Perception
Talk: Active Multi-View Object Recognition and Change Detection
Christian Potthast, Andreas Breitenmoser, Fei Sha and Gaurav S. Sukhatme

05/29/2015

Did you see RESL yet at ?
We have one more talk coming up tomorrow, in the workshop SaA1T4/SaA2T4 Scaling Up Active Perception.
In the meantime, why not stop by the USC booth ( #236)?

05/28/2015

Today at :

Thu 09:31-09:35, Paper ThA1T3.5
Multi-Step Planning for Robotic Manipulation
Max Pflueger and Gaurav Sukhatme

Thu 11:00-11:04, Paper ThA2T7.1
Active Articulation Model Estimation through Interactive Perception
Karol Hausman, Scott Niekum, Sarah Osentoski, and Gaurav Sukhatme

See you at these interactive sessions!