Event
Evening@SMART: Dr. Yiannis Aloimonos
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
USMSM SMART Building
Lauren Bacon
301 226 6033
lbacon1@umd.edu
https://matrix.umd.edu/events/eveningsmart
August 6, 2025: Dr. Yiannis Aloimonos
"Minimal Active Perception for Embodied AI Design in Nano UAV Autonomy"
Dr. Yiannis Aloimonos
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
Biography
State-of-the-art in aerial robot autonomy utilizes sensors that directly perceive the world in 3D and require a massive amount of computation. This is in stark contrast to the methods used by small living beings such as birds and bees; they use exploratory and active movements to gather more information to simplify the perception task. Using this active vision-based philosophy, we achieve state-of-the-art autonomy on nano-quadrotors using minimal on-board sensing and computation. This talk will outline several methods of achieving activeness on an aerial robot. Full abstract
Registration: https://go.umd.edu/evening-smart-0806
Presentation will be at the USMSM SMART Building, 44219 Airport Road, California, MD 20619
Agenda
5:00-5:30 - Networking with refreshments
5:30-6:30 - Presentation
6:30-7:00 - Q&A and discussion
