Smart Weaselballs

Team Weaselballs won first place in the Fall 2011 Computer Science Department end-of-semester trivia championship defeating dozens of other teams on CS, math, and general trivia. Members: Lars Erickson, Jingjin Yu, Kristen Erickson, Luca Foschini, Max Katsev. Too see what else weaselballs can accomplish, go here.

Best Paper Award

Dmitry Yershov won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems for his paper Simplicial Dijkstra and A* Algorithms for Optimal Feedback Planning.

Siebel Scholar Fellowship

Katrina Gossman was chosen as a Siebel Scholar for 2011-2012.

Mazagine Articles on Motion Planning

In the March 2011 and June 2011 issues of the Robotics and Automation Society Magazine, I published an invited two-part tutorial on motion planning. Part I introduces and explains the basic methods and Part II gives an overview of current research challenges.