Autonomous robots are being used in increasingly difficult real-world situations. These exciting new applications highlight the current limitations of autonomy. Advancing the state of the art will require significant research on core problems in robotics, including motion estimation and motion planning. This talk will present work…

Abstract: Today users’ requests for information or content on the Internet are often handled by servers hosted in remote data centers. Many user-facing applications such as search, video streaming, and social media are data-intensive. To handle the massive scale of data, requests from users are processed by distributed…