Estimation, Search, and Planning (ESP) Research Group

Recent News

1. Fully Connected Informed Trees (FCIT*)

   Tyler and Jonathan have been working with Wil Thomason (The AI Institute), Zak Kingston (CoMMA Lab, Purdue University), and Lydia Kavraki (Kavraki Lab, Rice University) on extending their exciting work on vector accelerated motion planning (VAMP). Fully Connected Informed Trees (FCIT*) uses SIMD instructions to achieve real-time almost-surely asymptotically optimal planning and has been submitted to ICRA 2025. If you'd like to know more you can watch the trailer video on YouTube, read the paper on arXiv, and checkout the code.

   

2. ESP @ ICRA 2024 — Continuous-time Visual Odometry with Event Cameras

   Jianeng is presenting his work on continuous-time trajectory estimation using event cameras at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan. The paper is already published in RA-L with an open access version available. You can watch his presentation on YouTube and if you're in Yokohama for ICRA, come say hello and talk event-based state estimation!

   

3. LaTeX Presents

   We do a lot of presentations on our work in the Estimation, Search, and Planning (ESP) research group, so we've developed our own presentation tool to make them better. LaTeX Presents builds on LaTeX and Beamer to quickly and easily make academic presentations with lots of images and videos. If that sounds interesting to you, check out a very simple demonstration or try the code yourself.