Seminars

A seminar series at Penn State focusing on Systems, Controls, and Robotics (SCR) research.

Spring 2024
Fall 2023
Spring 2023
Fall 2022

Unless otherwise noted, seminars will be held on Friday at 2:00 pm in Reber 125.

Wednesday, January 17
Delivering AI and Machine Learning Enabled Robotics to the Manufacturing and Field Service Operations
Seminar Flyer

Larry Sweet
Advanced Robots for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute
Website

Friday, January 26

No Seminar

Friday, February 2 (Zoom link)
Reliability of Autonomous Vehicles
Seminar Flyer

Jay Zhou
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International

Website
Friday, February 9
Safe Visual Reinforcement Learning via Conformal Prediction
Seminar Flyer
Osbert Bastani
University of Pennsylvania

Website
Friday, February 16
Sensor Symphony: Optimal Placement and Occupancy-Driven Control for a Smarter Built Environment
Seminar Flyer
Himanshu Sharma
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Website

Friday, February 23
Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) Safety and Mobility
Seminar Flyer

Azim Eskandarian
Virginia Commonwealth University
Website
Tuesday, February 27
Managing IAQ at Multiple Scales – from Urban to Personal Microenvironments
Seminar Flyer

Jianshun Zhang
Syracuse University
Website
March 3-9

No Seminar (Spring Break)

Friday, March 15
A Correct-by-Construction Paradigm for Designing Autonomous Systems
Seminar Flyer

Majid Zamani
University of Colorado Boulder

Website
Friday, March 22 Tarkeshwar Singh
Pennsylvania State University
Website
Friday, March 29
Ankit Goel
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Website
Friday, April 5
Managerial Decision Making: A Control Systems Perspective
Seminar Flyer 

Tariq Samad
University of Minnesota

Website

Friday, April 12

Prashant Mehta
University of Illinois
Website

Friday, April 19

Dongmei Chen
University of Texas at Austin
Website

Friday, April 26

Samuel Coogan
Georgia Institute of Technology
Website

Friday, May 2

Yue Wang
National Science Foundation
Website

 

Thursday, Sep. 15, 2023 (In-person)
Adaptable Origami Structures at Multiple Scales
2:00-3:00 pm, Reber 125
Seminar Poster

Evgueni Filipov
University of Michigan
Website

Nov, 24, 2023
No Seminar
 

Friday, Sep. 29, 2023 (In-person)
10:00-11:00 am, Reber 135

Birgit Vogel-Heuser
Technical University of Munich
Website

Oct. 5, 2023
No Seminar
 

Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023 (In-person)
Safe Composition through Dynamic Feature Interaction Resolution in Cyber-Physical Systems
2:00-3:00 pm, Reber 125
Seminar Flyer

Eunsuk Kang
Carnegie Mellon University
Website
Oct. 19, 2023
No Seminar
 
Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 (In-person)

TBD
Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 (In-person)
Michael Sohn
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Website

Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023 (In-person)

Jingang Yi
Rutgers University
Website

Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023 (In-person)

TBD 
Nov. 23, 2023
No Seminar
 
Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023 (In-person)

Jeff Ban
University of Washington
Website

Friday, Dec. 8, 2023 (In-person)

Brandon Hencey
Air Force Research Laboratory
Website

Jan, 12, 2023 (In-person)  262 Willard Building at 9:30 am,cohosted with FDRC
Data-driven modeling of fluids
Seminar Info on FDRC Website

Clarence Rowley
Princeton University
Website

Jan 19, 2023 (In-person)
Lightning talks

Penn State SCaR 

Jan 26, 2023 (In-person) (Virtual Seminar)
Long-term Real-World Autonomy for Assistive Robots
Seminar Flyer

Ali Ayub
University of Waterloo
Website
Feb 2, 2023 (In-person)
On Securing the Next Generation of Critical Infrastructure Systems
Seminar Flyer
Rômulo Meira-Góes
PSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Website

Feb 9, 2023 (In-person)
Interacting with the Environment for Autonomous Aerial Manipulation
Seminar Flyer

Junyi Geng
PSU Aerospace Engineering
Website
Feb 16, 2023 (In-person)
Architectural Thermofluid Systems: Next-Generation Challenges and Opportunities in Control, Estimation, and Machine Learning
Seminar Flyer
Christopher R. Laughman
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Website

Feb 23, 2023 (In-person)
Multi-Scale Modeling for Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Cities
Seminar Flyer

Wangda Zuo
PSU Architectural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Website
Mar 2, 2023 (In-person)
Industrial and National Security Applications of Acoustics, Signal Processing, and Immersive Reality Research
Seminar Flyer
Michael Roan
Applied Research Laboratory and PSU Mechanical Engineering
Website

Mar 9, 2023 (In-person)
No Seminar (Spring Break)

 

Mar 16, 2023 (In-person)
Autonomous Vehicle Facilities and Research at the Smart Mobility Lab
Seminar Flyer

Xianbiao (XB) Hu
PSU Civil and Environmental Engineering

Website
Mar 23, 2023 (In-person)
Models For Real-Time Feedback Control Of Robotic Fused Filament Fabrication System
Seminar Flyer

Rakshith Badarinath
TE Connectivity
Website
Mar 30, 2023 (In-person)
Science of Autonomy
Seminar Flyer

Marc Steinberg
Office of Naval Research
Website
Apr 6, 2023 (In-person)
Seminar Canceled
No Seminar

Apr 13, 2023 (In-person)
Formal Methods for Cyber Physical Systems: State of the Art and Future Challenges
Seminar Flyer

Necmiye Ozay
University of Michigan
Website

Apr 20, 2023 (In-person)
Learning and Robust Perception for Aerospace Autonomy
Seminar Flyer

Maruthi R. Akella
University of Texas
Website

Apr 20, 2023 (In-person)
Discussion: seminar series, collaboration opportunities, etc.

PSU SCaR

 

Sep, 1, 2022 (in-person)
Discussion: Introduction and lightning talks

ME RSG

Sep, 8, 2022 (In-person)
Input Shaping for Vibratory Systems using Deadbeat Control Theory
Seminar Flyer

Alok Sinha
 Penn State (Mechanical)
Website

Sep, 15, 2022 (In-person)
Exploring Human-Robot Trust during Emergencies
Seminar Flyer

Alan Wagner
Penn State (Aerospace)
Website

Sep, 22, 2022
Re-envisioning Construction Through Industrialized and Robotic Construction
Seminar Flyer

Robert Leicht
Penn State (Architectural)
Website

Sep, 29, 2022 (In-person)
Human-Robot Collaborative Manipulation
Seminar Flyer

Kevin Lynch
Northwestern University
Website

Oct, 6, 2022 (In-person)
SlrpEV: Smart LeaRning Pilot for Electric Vehicles
Seminar Flyer
Seminar Recording
Scott Moura
University of California, Berkeley
Website

Oct, 13, 2022 (In-person)
Neural-Machine Interface towards Dexterous Control of Robotic Hands
Seminar Flyer

Xiaogang Hu
 Penn State (Mechanical)
Website
Oct, 20, 2022 (in-person)
Robotic Manipulation in the Wild: Planning, Estimation and Control through Contacts
Seminar Flyer
Devesh Jha
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Website

Oct, 27, 2022 (virtual seminar)
Logic of Autonomous Dynamical Systems
Seminar Flyer
Seminar Link
Presentation Slides

André Platzer
Carnegie Mellon University
Website

Nov, 3, 2022 (in-person)
Tensegrity Space Structures: Assembly, Automation, Mechanics and Manufacturing
Seminar Flyer

Manoranjan Majji
Texas A&M University
Website
Nov, 10, 2022 (in-person)
Bio-inspired Vibration Control of Civil Structures During Extreme Events
Seminar Flyer
Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto
Penn State (SEDTAPP)
Website
Nov, 17, 2022 (in-person)
Design and control of emergent oscillations for flapping-wing flyers and synchronizing swarms
Seminar Flyer
Nick Gravish
University of California San Diego
Website
Nov, 24, 2022
No Seminar
 
Dec, 1, 2022 (in-person)
Kalman filtering for State Estimation: Beyond the zero-mean Gaussian
Seminar Flyer

Donald Ebeigbe
Penn State (EECS)
Website

Dec, 8, 2022
Group Brainstorming 

ME RSG and Community

 

 

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