June,
2025: 3 papers have been accepted to IROS 2025 that will be held October
19-25, 2025, in Hangzhou, China. Check out the publication page to see more details. Congrats to all the authors!
May,
2025: Arjun
Gupte has been awarded the prestigious Astronaut Scholarship by the Astronaut
Scholarship Foundation! This scholarship recognizes
exceptional undergraduate students pursuing degrees in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Congratulations, Arjun!
May,
2025: Congratulations on your graduation, Dayoon Suh! Wishing you all the best
as you begin your MS journey in Robotics at UPenn.
April,
2025: Purdue University's Board of Trustees
approved the promotion of Dr. Byung-Cheol
Min to the rank of Full Professor (Link). This promotion takes effect
with the 2025-26 academic year. Congrats, Dr. Min!
March,
2025: You are invited to a PhD dissertation
defense presentation by Lakshmi Narayan Vishnunandan Venkatesh.
It’s open to all students and faculty. You can find more
details about the defense from the flyer (Link). A full abstract is available (Link).
February,
2025: Our paper "Multimodal Audio-based Disease
Prediction with Transformer-based Hierarchical Fusion
Network" has been accepted for publication in IEEE
Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing! Check out the paper (Link) and its website (Link). Congrats,
Ruiqi!
January,
2025: 8 papers will be presented at ICRA 2025 that will be held 19–23 May,
Atlanta, USA! This includes 6 from the original ICRA
submissions and 2 transferred from RA-L for oral
presentations. Check out the publication
page to see more details. Congrats to all the authors!
January,
2025: Our paper "PrefCLM: Enhancing
Preference-based Reinforcement Learning with Crowdsourced
LLMs" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!
Check out the paper (Link)
and its website (Link).
Congrats, Ruiqi!
January,
2025: Here is the annual review of the
SMART Lab in 2024 by the numbers and the narratives
(Link).
December,
2024: Arjun
Gupte won the First Place from the 2024 Fall Purdue Undergraduate Research
Expo's Research Talks Session. The title of the talk
was "REBEL: Rule-based and Experience-enhanced Learning with
LLMs for Initial Task Allocation in Multi-Human Multi-Robot
Teams". Congrats to Arjun!
November,
2024: Our paper "Cognitive Load-based Affective
Workload Allocation for Multi-human Multirobot Teams" has
been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine
Systems! Check
out the paper (Link) and its website (Link). Congrats,
Wonse!
November,
2024: Ike's paper, "Value Imprint: A Technique
for Auditing the Human Values Embedded in RLHF Datasets" has
been accepted as a Spotlight presentation in the NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks
track! Check out the paper (Link). Congratulations, Ike!
September,
2024: Soyun
Choi, a new Graduate Visiting Student from SKKU in
Korea joins the SMART Lab. Welcome, Soyun!
September,
2024: Shyam
Sundar Kannan has successfully defended his PhD
thesis "Monocular Camera-based Localization and Mapping for
Autonomous Mobility". A recording of his defense
presentation is available at: our YouTube Channel. Congrats, Dr.
Kannan!!
September,
2024: Ziqin
(Larry) Yuan, a
Ph.D. Student, joins the SMART lab. Welcome, Larry!
September,
2024: You are invited to a PhD dissertation
defense presentation by Shyam Sundar Kannan. It’s open to all
students and faculty. You can find more details about the
defense from the flyer (Link). A full abstract is available (Link).
August,
2024: Dr. Min has been appointed as the inaugural
director of the Purdue Applied AI Research Center (AARC)! Watch his welcome message on
the center's YouTube Channel.
Congratulations!
August,
2024: Dr. Min, as a Co-PI, has received a NSF
grant "Enabling Next-Generation HyFlex Field Laboratories
through an Innovative Leaner-In-The-Loop Multi-Robot
System". More information
July,
2024: 3 papers have been accepted to IROS 2024 that will be held October
14-18, 204, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Check out the publication page to see more details.
June,
2024: Our paper "MOCAS: A Multimodal Dataset for
Objective Cognitive Workload Assessment on Simultaneous
Tasks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing!
Check out the paper (Link)
and its supplementary video (Link). Congrats,
Wonse and Ruiqi!
May,
2024: Our paper "PlaceFormer: Transformer-based
Visual Place Recognition using Multi-Scale Patch Selection
and Fusion" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!
Check out the paper (Link).
Congrats, Shyam!
May,
2024: Ruiqi
Wang has passed his PhD prelim exam. Congratulations,
Ruiqi!
April,
2024: Vishnunandan Venkatesh was recognized
as the Member of the Year for 2023-24 by a vote of all of
the SMART Lab members. Congratulations, Vishnu! Well
deserved!
April,
2024: Dayoon
Suh (2nd from the left) has been awarded the Mary-Ann
Neel Computer Science Scholarship from Purdue's CS
Department. Congratulations, Dayoon! Check out the enlarged
photo in our Photo
Gallery.
March,
2024: Vishnunandan Venkatesh received the
Employee Recognition Award and the Bravo Award from the
University. Congrats, Vishnu!
February,
2024: Ikechukwu
Obi, a Ph.D.
Student, joins the SMART lab. Welcome, Ike!
February,
2024: Our lab was featured in the Purdue
Exponent. The article includes interviews with some of our
students and Dr. Min, where they discussed their
academic and professional journey, as well as the research
projects conducted in our lab. You can read the article here (Link).
February,
2024: Our paper "Initial Task Assignment in
Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams: An Attention-enhanced
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Approach" has been
accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!
Check out the paper (Link)
and the paper website (Link). Congrats,
Ruiqi and Arjun!
January,
2024: Our paper "SAMARL: Multi Robot
Socially-aware Navigation with Multi-agent Reinforcement
Learning" has been accepted for ICRA 2024! Check
out the paper (Link)
and the paper website (Link). Congrats,
Peter!
December,
2023: Here is the annual review of the
SMART Lab in 2023 by the numbers and the narratives
(Link).
December,
2023: Dr.
Min gave an online research talk titled "Towards
Incorporating Elderly Preferences and Demonstrations into
Robot Learning" at Kyung Hee University, Korea, as part of
their AgeTechService International Symposium.
November,
2023: We visited West Lafayette Jr./Sr. High
School as part of our NSF CAREER Project to conduct an
outreach activity. For more details, please visit our
Facebook group (Link).
November,
2023: Dayoon
Suh, a new
Undergraduate Student Researcher, joins the SMART lab.
Welcome, Dayoon!
November, 2023: Prof. Joohyung Kim at UIUC visited our
lab to discuss potential research collaborations. See more
photos at our Facebook group (Link).
November,
2023: Our undergraduate student, Arjun Gupte, presented his research
titled "Modeling and Simulating Initial Task Allocation in
Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams" at the 2023 Purdue Fall
Undergraduate Research Expo (Link). Congratulations!
October,
2023: DGIST
and the KASA
group from South Korea visited our lab to discuss potential
research collaboration opportunities. See more photos at our
Facebook group (Link).
October,
2023: The SMART Lab presented all 5 papers very
well and received a lot of attention at IROS 2023. Please
check out the recorded presentations on our YouTube Channel
(Link). See more photos at our Facebook
group (Link).
September,
2023: Dr.
Min gave an online research talk titled "Integrating
Human Intelligence into Robot Learning" at Sheffield Hallam
University in the UK, as part of their Engineering &
Maths Research Seminar Series.
August,
2023: Dr.
Min has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
Congratulations to him on this significant accomplishment!
August,
2023: Taehyeon
Kim, a new Ph.D.
Student, joins the SMART lab. Welcome, Taehyeon!
August,
2023: Great News!
Our lab alumni Dr.
Jun Han Bae has accepted a tenure-track faculty
position at Rochester Institute of Technology. Congrats to
Dr. Bae!
June,
2023: Dr.
Min gave an invited talk on "Integrating Human
Intelligence into Robot Learning" at Sungkyunkwan University
(SKKU), Seoul, Korea.
June,
2023: 5 papers have been accepted to IROS 2023 that will be held October
1-5, 2023, in Detroit, USA. Check out the publication page to see more details.
May,
2023: Congratulations on your graduation, Gavin Chan and Soomin Kim! Gavin starts his PhD
journey at TAMU, and Soomin starts her new chapter at
Samsung.
April,
2023: Shyam
Sundar Kannan and Ruiqi
Wang were recognized as the Member of the Year for
2022-23 by a vote of all of the SMART Lab members.
Congratulations, Shyam and Ruiqi! Well deserved!
March,
2023: Arjun
Gupte, a new
Undergraduate Student Researcher, joins the SMART lab.
Welcome, Arjun!
February, 2023: Prof. Hyoseok Hwang at Kyung Hee
University visited our lab to discuss potential research
collaborations. See more photos at our Facebook group (Link).
January,
2023: We are currently looking for a highly
motivated undergraduate student for the NSF CAREER project! Please check the
flyer (Link) for more details.
January,
2023: Here is the annual summary of the
SMART Lab in 2022 by the numbers and the narratives
(Link).
December,
2022: Pou
Hei Chan won the First Place from the 2022 Fall Purdue Undergraduate Research
Expo's Poster Session in the College of Engineering.
The title of the poster was "INSERR: A Novel Search and
Rescue ROV Design For Flooded Indoor Environments". Congrats
to Pou Hei (Gavin)!
November,
2022: Wonse
Jo has successfully defended his PhD thesis "Affective
Workload Allocation System for Multi-human Multi-robot
Teams". Wonse will start his new chapter at the the University of Michigan as a postdoc.
Congrats, Dr. Jo!!
November,
2022: You are invited to a PhD dissertation
defense presentation by Wonse
Jo. It’s open to all students and faculty. You can
find more details about the defense from the flyer (Link). A full abstract is available (Link).
November,
2022: Dr. Min has been appointed as Co-Lead for
the Realizing the Digital Enterprise (RDE) Research Impact Area. RDE is one
of the three research impact areas at Purdue Polytechnic,
where more than 60 research-active faculty members across
the college are affiliated with. Congratulations!
November,
2022: We are looking for participants who will
help us find optimal workload allocation strategies for the
human-muti-robot system. If you are interested in this study
and want to get more information, please check our flyer Here!
October,
2022: A paper titled "Rapid
Prediction of Network Quality in Mobile Robots" has been
published in Ad
Hoc Networks (Link). This paper is collaboration
work with Dr. Ramviyas Parasuraman at UGA and Dr.
Petter Ögren at KTH.
September,
2022: Dr. Min, as a Co-PI, has received a NSF
grant "FW-HTF-P: Interactive Multi-Human Multi-Remote-Robot
Operations for the Future of Construction Work". More information
September,
2022: Here is a list of our SMART Lab Alumni
(PhD & MS Students only) as of Fall 2022. You can
download its PDF version HERE.
September,
2022: Weizheng
Wang , a new
Ph.D. Student, joins the SMART lab. Welcome, Weizheng!
September,
2022: Soomin
Kim, a new
Undergraduate Student, joins the SMART lab. Welcome, Soomin!
July,
2022: A paper titled "Feedback-efficient
Active Preference Learning for Socially Aware Robot
Navigation" has been accepted to IROS 2022. Check out the paper website (Link).
Congrats, Ruiqi!
July,
2022: Dr.
Min along with his colleagues serves as a topic editor for
the special issue "Unknown Environment Exploration by
Networked Robots" in Frontiers in Robotics and AI Journal.
Check out more information from this following link.
June,
2022: Shyam
Sundar Kannan gave his presentation at the 2022
International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) in Dubrovnik, Croatia, for his
paper titled "Autonomous Drone Delivery to Your Door and
Yard".
May,
2022: Su
Sun, Roman
Ibrahimov, and Wonse
Jo, have been awarded as Winner, First Runner
Up, and Second Runner Up, respectively at the 2022 Spring
Purdue Polytechnic Research Impact Area Student Poster
Symposium. Congrats, All!
See more information at our Facebook group (Link).
May,
2022: Revanth Krishna Senthilkumaran has
been awarded Third Prize for the interdisciplinary oral
research presentations at the 2022 Spring Purdue
Undergraduate Research Conference (Link). Congrats, Revanth!
May,
2022: Wonse
Jo was recognized as the Member of the Year for
2021-22 by a vote of all of the SMART Lab members.
Congratulations, Wonse! Well deserved!
April,
2022: Shyam
Sunder Kannan received the Engagement Award from
Purdue University, in recognition of his contributions to
the 2021 Inaugural Indianapolis Autonomous Challenge as an
Autonomous Systems Engineer in the Indy Autonomous Challenge
Black & Gold Racing Team. Congrats, Shyam!
April,
2022: A paper titled "Autonomous Drone
Delivery to Your Door and Yard" was accepted to the 2022
International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
(Link).
Congrats, Shyam!
March,
2022: A paper titled "Actuation-Coordinated
Mobile Parallel Robots With Hybrid Mobile and Manipulation
Functions" has been published in Transactions
of the ASME, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (Link). This paper is collaboration
work with Dr. Dongming Gan at Purdue.
March,
2022: A paper titled "Malware
Detection Using Pseudo Semi-Supervised Learning" was
accepted to the
3rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition and
Artificial Intelligence (ICPRAI) 2022 (Link). This paper is collaboration
work and led by Dr. Richard Voyles at Purdue.
March,
2022: We are looking for participants who will
help us develop an affective multi-robot controller
capable of estimating human affective states. If you are
interested in this study and want to get more information,
please check our flyer Here!
March,
2022: Shyam Sundar Kannan won the Second
Place from the Autonomous Day 2.0's Poster
Sessions. The event was held at the WestGate Academy
Conferencing and Training center in Odon, Indiana.
Congrats to Shyam!
March,
2022: A paper titled "BIM-based
Simulation of Construction Robotics in the Assembly
Process of Wood Frames" was accepted for publication in
Automation in
Construction (Link). This paper is collaboration
work with Dr. Jiansong Zhang's group at
Purdue.
February,
2022: Our paper “Correlation between
Unconscious Mouse Actions and Human Cognitive Workload”
has been accepted as "Late-Breaking Work" at the ACM CHI
2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems! Congrats, Go-Eum!
January,
2022: Our paper titled "Toward a Wearable
Biosensor Ecosystem on ROS 2 for Real-time Human-Robot
Interaction Systems" has received the Excellent Paper
Award from the IEEE IROS 2021 Workshop on Cognitive and
Social Aspects of Human Multi-Robot Interaction (HMRS). Congrats, Wonse!
January,
2022: [Closed] We are looking for undergrad
research assistants for the NSF CAREER project! Please check
the flyer (Link) for more details.
January,
2022: Here is the annual summary of the
SMART Lab by the numbers and the narratives (Link).
December,
2021: Jun
han Bae has successfully defended his PhD thesis,
titled "Development of an Uncrewed Sediment Sampling
System". Jun Han will start his new chapter at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as a
postdoc. Congrats, Jun Han!
November,
2021: Dr.
Min along with Dr. Mauricio Postigo at UNSA in Peru
gave a webinar "Robotic Sediment Sampling System for Surface
Water Sediment Collection" as
part of our Nexus Project (Link).
November,
2021: You are invited to a PhD dissertation
defense presentation by Jun
Han Bae. It’s open to all students and faculty. You
can find more details about the defense from the flyer (Link). A full abstract is available (Link).
November,
2021: Dr.
Min, as a Co-PI, has received a seed grant from Purdue
Polytechnic Institute "Detecting Humans’ Adaptive Behavior
Using Deep Learning Application to Provide Active Thermal
Comfort Controls in Occupancy Spaces". More information
October,
2021: The delegation from the Universidad
Nacional de San Agustin (UNSA) of Arequipa in Peru visited
our SMART Lab as part of their tour to Robotics labs at
Purdue. See more photos at our Facebook group (Link).
October,
2021: We visited Purdue Polytechnic High School
(PPHS) North Campus for outreach activities as part of our
NSF CAREER Project. Check out our project website's photo gallery page.
October,
2021: Pou
Hei Chan gave a poster presentation at the 2021 Purdue
Environmental Research Expo (Link), hosted by Purdue's Center for
the Environment. The title of the poster was "Unmanned
Sediment Sampling System for Surface Water Sediment
Collection".
October,
2021: Dr.
Min has been awarded for the 2021-22 COVID-19 Research
Disruption Fund from Purdue University. This fund will be
used to help facilitate the research that was lost during
the COVID disruption.
September,
2021: A paper titled "RoboMal:
Malware Detection for Robot Network Systems" was accepted
for IEEE
International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC) 2021 (Link).
This paper is collaboration work and led by Dr. Richard Voyles at Purdue.
September,
2021: Our paper “Toward a Wearable Biosensor
Ecosystem on ROS 2 for Real-time Human-Robot Interaction
Systems” was accepted to the IROS 2021: Workshop on
Cognitive and Social Aspects of Human Multi-Robot
Interaction (HMRS
2021). This paper is in collaboration with Prof. Steve McGuire at UC Santa Cruz. Check
out its GitHub repository (Link). Congrats, Wonse!
September,
2021: Our paper “Active Tapping via Gaussian
Process for Efficient Unknown Object Surface Reconstruction”
was accepted to the IROS 2021: Workshop on New Advances in
Tactile Sensation, Interactive Perception, Control, and
Learning (RoboTac2021).
Congrats, Su! Check out the publication page to see more details.
August,
2021: Dr.
Min gave an invited talk on "Robot Design, Planning,
and Control for Environmental Applications" at the
International Conference on IT-Bio Convergence.
July,
2021: 2 papers about cloud robotics and
human-machine systems have been accepted to the 2021 IEEE
International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)
that will be held virtually on October 17~20, 2021. Congrats
Manoj and Shyam!
June,
2021: Our paper "External Human-Machine Interface
on Delivery Robots: Expression of Navigation Intent of the
Robot" was accepted to RO-MAN 2021.
Check out this supplementary video (Link). Congrats, Shyam!
June,
2021: We are excited to introduce a new,
low-cost, and open-source mobile robot platform, called
SMARTmBOT (v2021) that we have developed. We provide a
detailed tutorial, and all design files and source codes, so
that you can build your own SMARTmBOT. Please check out its
full demo video (Link)
and GitHub repository (Link).
May,
2021: Sangjun
Lee has successfully defended his PhD thesis "Secure
Multi-Robot Systems: Threat Identification and
Countermeasure Development". Check the recording of his
defense presentation (Link). Congrats, Sangjun!
May,
2021: Dr.
Min has been named a 2021 University Faculty Scholar in honor of
his outstanding research and scholarship. This is one of the
highest research honors at Purdue where the University
Faculty Scholars Program recognizes outstanding faculty who
are on an accelerated path for academic distinction.
Congrats, Dr. Min!
May,
2021: Manoj
Penmetcha was recognized as the Member of the Year
for 2020-21 by SMART Lab. Congratulations, Manoj! Well
deserved!
May,
2021: Dr.
Min along with his colleagues serves as a topic editor
for the special issue "Coverage Control for Networked
Robots" in Frontiers in Control Engineering Journal. Check
out more information from this CFP page.
May,
2021: Jaeeun
Kim has been awarded the 1st place at the at the 2021
Spring Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference, in the
category of Research Talks in Purdue Polytechnic Institute (Link). You can watch her presentation
HERE.
Congrats, Jaeeun!
May,
2021: You are invited to a PhD dissertation
defense presentation by Sangjun
Lee. It’s open to all students and faculty. Click HERE to find more details about the
defense from the flyer.
May,
2021: Dr.
Min received the FY21 Interdisciplinary Research
Collaboration Award to honor his interdisciplinary and
transdisciplinary work, from Polytechnic Institute, Purdue
University! Congrats, Dr. Min! Check HERE for more details.
April,
2021: Our paper "A Deep Reinforcement
Learning-based Dynamic Computational Offloading Method for
Cloud Robotics" was accepted for publication in IEEE Access! Check
out this paper (Link) and its supplementary video (Link).
Congrats, Manoj!
April,
2021: A paper titled "Actuation-Coordinated
Mobile Parallel Robots with Hybrid Mobile and Manipulation
Function" was accepted for IDETC-CIE
2021 (Link).
This paper is collaboration work and led by Dr. Dongming Gan at Purdue.
April,
2021: Manoj
Penmetcha has successfully defended his PhD thesis
"Application Offloading Schemas for Cloud Robotics". Check
the recording of his defense presentation (Link). Manoj will start his new chapter by taking
up full time responsibilities at NCC and Multiscale
Technologies. Congrats, Manoj!
March,
2021: You are invited to a PhD dissertation
defense presentation by Manoj Penmetcha. It’s open to all
students and faculty. Click HERE to find more details about the
defense from the flyer.
February,
2021: Dr.
Min received the 2020 Outstanding Faculty Award in
Discovery (Research) from the Department of Computer and
Information Technology, Purdue University! Congrats, Dr.
Min!
January,
2021: NASA selected our Purdue-Hongik Team as
a finalist team for the NASA Space Robotics Challenge
Phase 2 Competition, and we received the certificate (Link)! During 2020, we competed
virtually with 114 teams across the globe in the
competition round. Check HERE for more details!
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) and its 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!
