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Maryland Today (July 2024)

UMD Researchers Develop New and Improved Camera Inspired by the Human Eye

A team led by University of Maryland computer scientists invented a camera mechanism that improves how robots see and react to the world around them.

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UMD Computer Science (May 2024)

UMD Alum Chahat Deep Singh Creates Tiny Drones Inspired by Small Animals

Singh is developing a framework for enhanced autonomy in tiny robots inspired by the efficient perception systems of small animals.

UMD Robotics (Dec 2023)

Designing Perceptual Systems for Tiny Robots

Drawing inpiration from these living organisms, Chahat Deep Singh has centered his research around designing compact, minimalistic, yet effective perception systems.

Science Robotics Cover (Aug 2023)

Ajna: Generalized Deep Uncertainty for Minimal Perception On Parsimonious Robots

Estimating Uncertainty — A Deep Learning Framework for Estimating Uncertainty in Optical Flow for Real-Time Control of Robots. Utilizing only uncertainty in optical flow obtained from a monocular RGB camera enables real-time performance on resource-constrained robots.

BBC Earth (April 2023)

Are Robot Bees The Future? | Planet Fix

It sounds like a sci-fi dystopia, swarms of robot bees flying around our previously quaint countrysides. But could they actually be part of the solution and help to revolutionise farming?

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Crowd Supply (Feb 2021)

MorphEyes: Variable-Baseline Drone

The team showcases three different applications of this system for quadrotor navigation: (a) flying through a forest, (b) flying through an unknown shaped/location static/dynamic gap, (c) accurate 3D pose detection of an independently moving object.

Mashable/Futurism (June 2019)

This drone relies on AI to dodge objects thrown at it

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Zurich equipped a drone with event cameras and a sonar system to make it capable of detecting and dodging objects thrown at it.

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IEEE Spectrum/NVIDIA (Sep 2018)

Insect-Inspired Vision System Helps Drones Pass Through Small Gaps

Researchers at the University of Maryland are adapting the techniques used by birds and bugs to teach drones how to fly through small holes at high speeds.

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Talks and Seminar

Sep 10, 2024

ROBO Seminar at CU Boulder

Minimal Perception: Towards the Future of Tiny Autonomous Robots

Chahat Deep Singh

Video (Only Access to CU Members)

March 8, 2024

Microsoft Future Leaders in Robotics and AI Seminar Series

Minimal Perception: Enabling Autonomy in Palm-Sized Robots

Chahat Deep Singh