January,
2021: Roman Ibrahimov, a new Ph.D. Student,
joins the lab. Welcome, Roman!
January,
2021: Dr. Min gave an invited talk, titled
"Robotics as an Example of Sociotechnical /Interdisciplinary
Research", at Purdue Polytechnic Institute Research
Mentoring Lunch.
January,
2021: Here is the annual summary of the
SMART Lab by the numbers (Link), and by the narratives
(Link).
December,
2020: Congratulations on your graduation, Tamzidul Mina and Go-Eum Cha! Tamzid joins the Sandia
National Labs as a postdoc, and Go-Eum pursues her PhD under
Dr. Min's supervision at Purdue.
November,
2020: Dr. Min gave an online invited talk titled
“Towards Adaptive Human Multi-Robot Systems” at Sungkyunkwan University. See more
photos at our Facebook group (Link).
November,
2020: Tamzidul
Mina has successfully defended his PhD thesis "Social
Behavior based Collaborative Self-organization in
Multi-robot Systems". Tamzid will start his new chapter in
Sandia National Lab. Congrats, Tamzid!
November,
2020: 2020 Fall outreach went pretty well. We
conducted a virtual outreach event for K-12 students at the
Purdue Polytechnic High School (PPHS) as part of our NSF
CAREER project. Check out our project website for more
detail (Link).
September,
2020: We would like to invite you to participate
in our study on how delivery robots can interact more
effectively with humans. This online survey takes about 5-10
minutes to complete, and you need to be over 18 to
participate. Survey link: tinyurl.com/delrobsurvey
August,
2020: Our paper "Adaptive Workload Allocation for
Multi-human Multi-robot Teams for Independent and
Homogeneous Tasks" was accepted for publication in IEEE Access! Check
out this paper (Link) supplementary video (Link). Congrats, Tamzid!
August,
2020: This past April, Purdue University's Board
of Trustees approved the promotion of Dr. Byung-Cheol Min to
the rank of Associate Professor (Link). This promotion takes effect
today, August 10, 2020. Congrats, Dr. Min!
July,
2020: Our paper "Maneuvering Ability-Based
Weighted Potential Field Framework for Multi-USV Navigation,
Guidance and Control" was accepted for the "Best of OCEANS"
special issue of the Marine Technology Society (MTS) Journal.
Check out this paper (Link). Congrats, Tamzid!
July,
2020: Jee
Hwan Park has successfully defended his MS. A title of
his thesis is "Grid-based Cyclic Multi-robot Allocation for
Object Carrying". Jee Hwan will start his new chapter in LG
Innotek. Congratulations!
July,
2020: Our paper "Material Mapping in Unknown
Environments using Tapping Sound" was accepted to
IROS
2020. Check out this supplementary video (Link). Congrats, Shyam and Wonse!
May,
2020: Our paper "Evaluation of Sampling Methods
for Robotic Sediment Sampling Systems" was accepted for
publication in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering! Check out this preprint version
of the paper (Link). Congrats, Jun Han,
Wonse, and Jee Hwan!
May,
2020: Yuta
Hoashi was successfully graduated as Class of 2020 and
will attend Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for his M.S.
Congratulations, Yuta!
May,
2020: Jaeeun
Kim was selected as a 2020-21 OUR Scholarship
recipient from The Office of Undergraduate Research at
Purdue University. Congratulations, Jaeeun!
April,
2020: Shyam
Sundar Kannan was selected to receive a 2020-21
Purdue PRF Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations, Shyam! Well
deserved!
April,
2020: Shaocheng
Luo has successfully defended his PhD. A title of his
dissertation is "Multi-robot System in Coverage Control:
Deployment, Coverage, and Rendezvous". Shaocheng will
start his new chapter at the University of Alberta. Congratulations!
April,
2020: Dr. Min, as a PI, has received a seed grant
from Purdue Polytechnic Institute "Reconfigurable
Cyber-Physical Simulators for Multi-Robot Systems". More information
April, 2020: Tamzidul Mina, PhD Student, made a
Robust Control tutorial for Sliding Mode Control (SMC) with
MATLAB/Simulink example implementation. The tutorial is
available at our GitHub repository. (Link)
April, 2020: Tamzidul Mina, PhD Student, has received
the Magoon Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistants from the
College of Engineering, Purdue University. Congratulations! (Link)
April,
2020: Dr. Min, as a Co-PI, has received a seed
grant from Purdue Polytechnic Institute "Wheeled Mobile
Parallel Robots with Hybrid Moving and Manipulation
Functions".
More information
March,
2020: Shyam
and Dr. Min, teamed up with other researchers at Purdue and
West Point (United States Military Academy),
participate in the Indy Autonomous Challenge, and the
team was accepted into Round 2. Congratulations!
March,
2020: Dr. Min, along with the other team members
in College of Engineering, received the Purdue University’s
2020 Focus Award (Link) to recognize the dedication to
disability and accessibility.
February,
2020: A paper titled "The
Humanitarian Flying Warehouse" was accepted for publication
in Transportation
Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review (Link). This paper is collaboration
work with Dr.
Seokcheon Lee's group at Purdue.
February,
2020: Wonse, Shyam, and Dr. Min, teamed up with
Prof. Jongheok Kim's group at Hongik Univ in South Korea,
participate in the NASA Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2.
The team name is Purdue-Hoingik Team. Please support out
team!
February,
2020: Go-Eum
Cha, a new M.S. Student, joins the lab. Welcome,
Go-Eum!
January,
2020: Su
Sun, a new Ph.D. Student, joins the lab. Welcome, Su!
January,
2020: Here is the annual summary of the SMART Lab in 2019 by
the numbers (Link), and by the narratives
(Link).
December,
2019: A paper titled "Two Echelon Vehicle Routing
Problem with Drones in Last Mile Delivery" was accepted for
publication in International Journal of Production Economics
(Link). This paper is collaboration
work with Dr.
Seokcheon Lee's group at Purdue.
November,
2019: We visited Purdue Polytechnic High School
(PPHS) in Indianapolis, IN for outreach activities as part
of our NSF CAREER Project. Check out our project website's photo gallery page.
November,
2019: We are proud to launch our website for the
project "CAREER:
Adaptive Human Multi-robot Systems". The web
address is:
polytechnic.purdue.edu/ahmrs.
November,
2019: We successfully carried out a field
experiment with SMARTBoat 5 that we newly developed in the
lab. Check out our YouTube Channel for the demo videos (Link).
October,
2019: Wonse
and Tamzid
participated in the 2019 OCEANS Seattle - Student Poster
Competition and received a certificate. Check out the
conference's website for more photos (Link).
October,
2019: Jaeeun
Kim and Pou Hei,
new Undergraduate Student Researchers, join the lab.
Welcome, Jaeeun and Pou Hei!!
August,
2019: Jeremy
Pan, a new M.S.
Student, joins the lab. Welcome, Jeremy!
August,
2019:
Tamzidul and
Manoj have been selected as a Student Travel Grant
Winner for the 2019 IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)
Conference. Congrats, Tamzid and Manoj!
August,
2019: A motion capture system has been installed
in our additional lab space, called "SMART Experiment Lab"
in HEAV 101. Check out our Photo Gallery page to see the large
photo.
August,
2019: 4 papers have been accepted to the 2019
MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference (OCEANS) that will be held October
27~31, 2019, in Seattle, WA; 2 papers for a regular
technical program and 2 for a student poster competition.
Congrats!
July,
2019: A paper titled "A Low-cost and Small USV
Platform for Water Quality Monitoring" was accepted for
publication in HardwareX Journal! Congrats, Wonse and
Yuta!
July,
2019: Dr. Min has accepted the invitation to
serve for the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2020 as an Associate Editor.
July,
2019: Hanyao
Yang, a new
Undergraduate Visiting Student, joins the lab. Welcome,
Hanyao!
July,
2019: Andrew
Sakai, a new
Undergraduate Student Researcher, joins the lab. Welcome,
Andrew!
June,
2019: 3 papers about multi-robot systems have
been accepted to the 2019 IEEE International Conference on
Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) that will be held October 6~9,
2019, in Bari, Italy. Congrats Shaocheng, Manoj, Tamzid, and
Jee Hwan!
May,
2019: A paper titled "Soft-packaged Sensory Glove
System for Human-like Natural Interaction and Control of
Prosthetic Hands" was accepted for publication in NPG Asia
Materials. This paper is collaboration work with Dr. Chi
Hwan Lee at Purdue and Dr. Nanshu Lu at The University of
Texas at Austin.
May,
2019: We are proud to launch our website for the
project "Purdue-UNSA Robotic Water Quality Monitoring and
Distribution Systems". The web address is:
engineering.purdue.edu/PRWQ.
April,
2019: Yuta
Hoashi won the Thematic (Innovative Technology,
Entrepreneurship, Design) Award in the 2019 Purdue
Undergraduate Research Conference. Congrats to Yuta!
March,
2019: Yogang
Singh with the
co-authors won the People’s Choice Poster Presentation Award
in the 6th Agricultural and Biological Engineering Symposium
(ABE Symposium) at Purdue University. Congrats!
March,
2019: Dr. Min has received the 2018-19
Outstanding Faculty Award in Discovery (Research) from
Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University!
February,
2019: Dr. Min has received the 2018-19
Outstanding Faculty Award in Discovery (Research) from the
Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue
University!
February,
2019: Dr. Min has received the 2018-19
Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award from the
Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue
University!
February,
2019: Dr. Min has received the NSF
CAREER Award from the Cyber-Human Systems (CHS)
Program to develop Adaptive Human Multi-Robot Systems! More information
February,
2019: Our lab has won the Fan Favorite Poster of
all poster displayed at the Purdue Robotics/IoT Showcase
held in Neil Armstrong Hall on February 1, 2019. 26 labs
were represented from Purdue Polytechnic, College of
Engineering, and College of Science in the showcase.
Congrats to all of us!
January,
2019: Walter
Kruger, a new
Undergraduate Student Researcher, joins the lab. Welcome,
Walter!
January,
2019: Yogang
Singh, a new
Postdoc Associate, joins the lab. Welcome, Yogang!
January,
2019: [Closed] Currently, we are looking for
undergraduate research assistants! Please check HERE for more details.
January,
2019: Here is the annual summary of the SMART Lab
in 2018 by the numbers (Link), and by the narratives
(Link).
November,
2018: Jun Han and Wonse won the 2018 Realizing
the Digital Enterprise (RDE) Graduate Student Poster
Session. Congrats,
Jun Han and Wonse! More information
November,
2018: Dr. Min received a Seed for Success Award
from Purdue University for his work with Purdue-UNSA Nexus Project.
Principal investigators and co-investigators garnering an
award of $1 million or more were recognized with the Seed
for Success Award.
November,
2018: Our paper "Multi-robot Rendezvous Based on
Bearing-aided Hierarchical Tracking of Network Topology" was
accepted for publication in Ad Hoc Networks. Congrats, Shaocheng
and Jun Han!
November,
2018: Dr. Min, as a PI, has received a seed grant
from Purdue Polytechnic Institute "Distributed Multi-robot
Systems for Autonomous Construction". More information
November,
2018: Dr. Min, as a Co-PI, has received a seed
grant from Purdue Polytechnic Institute "Developing
Crancobots to Support Automated Construction of Buildings".
More
information
October,
2018: 2 papers about multi-robot systems have
been accepted to the 2018 IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE ROBIO 2018) that will be held
December 12~15, 2018, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Congrats
Tamzid, Shaocheng, and Jun Han!
October,
2018: Dr. Min, as a Co-PI, has received a
USDA/NIFA grant "CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Closed
Loop Sustainable Precision Animal Agriculture". More information
September,
2018: Dr. Min has accepted the invitation to
serve for the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2019 as an Associate Editor.
September,
2018: Dr. Min, as a Co-PI, has received a NSF
grant "PFI-RP: Partnerships for Innovation in Interoperable
Building Information Modeling Technology for Applications in
Automated Building Code Compliance Checking and Modular
Construction Automation". More information
August,
2018: Our paper "Multi-Point Rendezvous in
Multi-Robot Systems" was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.
Congrats, Ramviyas and Shaocheng!
August,
2018: Our paper "Consensus Control of Distributed
Robots using Direction of Arrival of Wireless Signals" was
accepted to International Symposium on Distributed
Autonomous Robotic Systems 2018 (DARS 2018) that will be held on the
October 15-17, 2018 at the University of Colorado at
Boulder, USA. Congrats, Ramviyas!
July, 2018: [Closed] We
are currently soliciting applications for a fully funded
Postdoc position. Please check HERE for more details.
June,
2018: Our paper "Distributed Direction of Arrival
Estimation-aided Cyberattack Detection in Networked
Multi-Robot Systems" was accepted to IROS 2018. Congrats, Sangjun!
June,
2018: Our paper "Kalman Filter-based Spatial
Prediction of Wireless Connectivity for Autonomous Robots
and Connected Vehicles" was accepted to 2018 IEEE Connected
and Automated Vehicles Symposium (CAVS) that will be held in Chicago,
IL, USA on August 27, 2018. Congrats, Ramviyas!
June,
2018: Our paper "Penguin Huddling-inspired Energy
Sharing and Formation Movement in Multi-robot Systems" was
accepted to 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Safety,
Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) that will be held in
Philadelphia, PA, USA on August 6-8, 2018. Congrats, Tamzid!
June,
2018: Ramviyas, Sangjun, and Shaocheng
participated in the 2018 Midwest Robotics Workshop (MWRW) at Toyota Technological
Institute at Chicago. The SMART Lab presented 1 invited talk
and 2 posters at the workshop!
May,
2018: Congratulations on your graduation,Yeonju,
Arabinda, and Jee Hwan!
May,
2018: Great News!
Ramviyas
has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the
University of Georgia. He will be affiliated with the Computer Science Department and the Robotics
Program in UGA
from Fall 2018. Ramviyas is our first postdoc in the lab and
now becomes a faculty! Congrats to Ramviyas!
May,
2018: SMART Lab has been relocated in the Potter
Engineering Center Building! Check out the Photo Gallery and Video Gallery to see our new lab.
April,
2018: Dr. Min, as a Co-PI, has received a grant
from Purdue Center for the Environment to research mobile
crowd sensing for sustainability challenges.
April,
2018: Wonse was selected to receive a 2018-19 PRF
Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations, Wonse! Well deserved!
April,
2018: Shaocheng was selected to receive a 2018
Polytechnic Institute Summer Research Grant Award.
Congratulations, Shaocheng! Well deserved!
April,
2018: Dr. Min, as a PI, has won the Purdue 17-18
Laboratory and University Core Facility Research Equipment
Program. Through this program, we will purchase multiple
mobile robot platforms from Clearpath.
February, 2018: SMART Lab
proudly published ROS tutorials for 1) Gazebo simulation, and
2) iRobot Create2 robot control with computer vision. Check
out our GitHub
repository!
February,
2018: Our paper “360 VR Based Robot Teleoperation
Interface for Virtual Tour” was accepted to the HRI 2018:
Workshop on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality for
Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI).
Congrats, Yeonju! Check out the publication page to see more details.
February,
2018: Dr. Min along with his colleague serves as
a guest editor for the special issue " Multi-robot System
Assisted by Information Networks" in International Journal
of Advanced Robotic Systems. Check out more information from
this CFP page.
January,
2018: Dr. Min, as a PI, has received a grant to
develop Robotic Water Quality Monitoring and Distribution
Systems from UNSA in Peru.
December,
2017:
Sangjun was awarded to the Graduate Research
Fellowship in STEM from National Institute of Justice (NIJ).
Details on the award can be found at LINK. Congrats and well deserved,
Sangjun!
November, 2017: [Closed]
We are currently soliciting applications for a fully funded
Postdoc position. Please check HERE for more details.
November,
2017: Our paper "A Directional Antenna based
Leader-Follower Relay System for End-to-End Robot
Communications" was accepted for publication in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Journal!
September,
2017:
Yongbum will participate in IEEE SMC 2017 as a volunteer. Thank
you for your service, Yongbum!
August,
2017:
Wonse Jo joins the lab. Welcome, Wonse!
August,
2017: Dr. Min, as a Co-PI, has received a NSF
grant for the Workshop to Explore US/Korean Collaboration in
Human-Friendly Co-Robotic Technologies. More information
August,
2017: Sangjun has received a Travel Grant Award
from IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC) to
support his travel to IEEE
SMC 2017. Congrats, Sangjun!
June,
2017: Ramviyas was selected to receive a Purdue
Postdoc Travel Grant Award from Purdue's Graduate School to
support his travel to RSS 2017. Congrats, Ramviyas!
May,
2017: OUr paper "Attack-aware Multi-sensor
Integration Algorithm for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
Systems" was accepted to 2017 IEEE International Conference
on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), that will be held in Banff,
Canada, Oct. 5-8, 2017. Congrats, the team!
May,
2017: Dr. Min and Ramviyas serve as a guest
editor for the special issue "Assistive Robotics" in
Technologies Journal of MDPI. Check out more information
from this CFP
and Webpage.
May,
2017: Ramviyas, Jun Han, Sangjun participated in
the 2017 Midwest Robotics Workshop (MWRW) at Toyota Technological
Institute at Chicago. The SMART Lab presented 3 posters at
the workshop!
April,
2017: Jun Han was selected to receive a 2017
Polytechnic Institute Summer Research Grant Award.
Congratulations, Jun Han! Well deserved!
April,
2017: Jee Hwan and Yongbum participated in the
2017 Purdue Undergraduate Research and Poster Symposium and
Jee Hwan won the 1st place in the college. Congratulations!
April,
2017: Dr. Min has won 2017 PRF Purdue Research
Foundation (PRF) Summer Faculty Research Grant. He will use
the grant to research on the CPS for real-time water
monitoring.
March,
2017: Ramviyas gave a seminar as part of
Polytechnic Postdoc Seminar Series. The topic was
"Resillient Wireless Communications for Field Robots."
March,
2017: 4 posters from the lab have been presented
at the 2017 Purdue Health and Disease: Science, Technology,
Culture and Policy Research Poster Session. Check out the photo gallery to see more photos.
March,
2017: 2 papers about HCI and HRI have been
accepted to the HCI International 2017 that will be held in
Vancouver, Canada, in July 2017. Congratulations Manoj,
Yeonju, and Arabinda for the acceptance! Check out the publication page to see more details.
February,
2017: Two papers about assistive technology and
robotics have been accepted to the IEEE Robotic Computing
2017 that will be held in Taichung, Taiwan in April, 2017.
Check out the publication page to see more details.
January, 2017: Yongbum Cho, joins the lab. Welcome,
Yongbum!
January, 2017: Dr.Min gave a
guest lecture in BME 395, hosted by Prof. Chi Hwan Lee, with a
title, "Needs Assessment Approach to Assistive Robotics:
Assistive Robots for the Blind".
January, 2017: Hunjung Lim from Samsung Electronics,
joins the lab as a visiting scholar. Welcome, Dr. Lim!
January, 2017: SMART Lab has
been moved to WANG 4004. Check out our photo
gallery page to see more photos.
November, 2016: Dr. Min gave
two presentations at the
NSF I/UCRC RoSe-HUB fall meeting at UNCC.
November, 2016: Shaocheng
attented and presented two posters at the NSF I/UCRC RoSe-HUB fall meeting at
UNCC. Check out our photo
gallery page to see more photos.
October,
2016: Ramviyas Parasuraman, a new Postdoc
Associate, joins the lab. Welcome, Dr. Parasuraman!
September, 2016: Dr. Min
gave an invited talk at the Independence Science: Learning a
New Direction (ISLAND) 2016 conference. The talk was about
assistive robotics technology for campus navigation by the
blind. Check out the photo
gallery page to see more photos.
August,
2016: A paper titled "Design and Concept of the
Sediment Sampling Robot and Dynamic Buoy" was accepted to
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and
Systems (IROS),
Late-Breaking Reports, that will be held in Daejeon, Korea,
Oct. 9-14, 2016. Congrats, the team!
August,
2016: Our paper "Examine the Potential of Robots
to Teach Autistic Children Emotional Concepts" was accepted
to International Conference on Social Robotics ( ICSR), that will be held in Kansas
City, November 1 to 3, 2016.
July,
2016: Jun Han has received a Travel Award from
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) to support his
travel to IEEE
CASE 2016. Congrats, Jun Han!
June,
2016: Dr. Min serves as a member of the
International Program Committee for the 8th International
Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) at Kansas City, USA, 1-3
November 2016.
June,
2016: Our paper "Tri-SedimentBot: An Underwater
Sediment Sampling Robot" was accepted to IEEE CASE 2016, that will be held in
Fort Worth Texas, August 21 to 24, 2016. Congrats, the team!
May,
2016: Prof. Min was invited to the 2016
International Workshop on ICT in Medicine and Health Care (ICTMHC2016)
as a keynote speaker.
April,
2016: A paper titled "Real-time averaging of
position data from multiple GPS receivers" was accepted for
publication in Measurement Journal!
March, 2016: [Closed] We
are currently soliciting applications for a fully funded
Postdoc position.
March, 2016: Prof. Min gave
a seminar at IUPUI hosted by Prof. John Lee, with a title of
"Assistive Robotics for Search-and-Rescue Operations and
People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired".
February, 2016: Prof. Kevin Lynch at Northwestern
University visited SMART Lab and Prof. Min hosted him for the
Robotics Seminar at Purdue. Check out our photo
gallery page to see more photos.
January, 2016: Prof. Min
gave a seminar at the Robotics Seminar Series as part of the
Purdue Robotics Accelerator with a title of "Advancing
Robotics Technology for Search-and-Rescue Operations and
Assistive Robotics for People Who are Blind or Visually
Impaired"
January, 2016: Yeonju Oh joins the lab. Welcome,
Yeonju!
December,
2015: Our paper "Finding the Optimal Location
and Allocation of Relay Robots for Building a Rapid
End-to-end Wireless Communication" was accepted for
publication in Ad Hoc Networks Journal!
November,
2015: Exciting! SMART Lab has obtained a
dedicated web domain and hosting -
www.smart-laboratory.org.
October, 2015: Prof. Min
is traveling to Korea to attend The Korea-US / US-Korea
Workshop on Toward the Next Generation of Robotic
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief: Fundamental
Enabling Technologies (Link)
October, 2015: Wei-Liang
Kai joins the lab. Welcome, Wei!
October, 2015: Prof. Byung-Cheol Min had a Robotics
seminar to 12 students and two faculty members from
Tecnologia Superior University (TECSUP) in Lima and Arequipa, Peru on
Assistive Robotics.
September, 2015: Jun Han Bae and Prof. Byung-Cheol Min's manuscript
describing an autonomous water sampling system was accepted
to IEEE SSRR 2015 LBR. Congrats, Jun Han!
August,
2015: Prof. Byung-Cheol Min has established the
SMART Lab!