Dufek wins Best Field Paper Award at IEEE SSRR!

Dufek wins Best Field Paper Award at IEEE SSRR!

Posted by admin on Nov 01, 2016 at 9:38 pm America/Chicago

[caption id="attachment_2083" align="alignleft" width="249"]Left to right: Jan Dufek, Dr. Auke Ijspert, Dr. Kamilo Melo Left to right: Jan Dufek, Dr. Auke Ijspert, Dr. Kamilo Melo[/caption] I am proud to announce that Jan Dufek’s paper on using a small tethered Fotokite UAV to control the EMILY unmanned marine surface vehicle to rescue drowning immigrants won the best field paper award at the IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics in Lausanne, Switzerland, last week. Jan is one of my Ph.D. students.  The paper was the preliminary work over the spring semester that is now funded by the National Science Foundation RAPID program. Jan received 200 Euros Jan received 200 Euros and his paper will be published as a journal article in Frontiers, a European conference. More details about the conference are at http://ssrrobotics.org, but there were over 100 attendees from 17 countries. IEEE SSRR is the only conference dedicated More details about the conference are at http://ssrrobotics.org, but there were over 100 attendees from 17 countries. IEEE SSRR is the only conference dedicated to robots for  homeland security and humanitarian operations. It was established in 2002, with Dr. Howie Choset (CMU) and myself as founding co-chairs. It was pretty dark so the photo is poor. Jan is on the left with conference chairs Dr. Auke Ijspeert and Dr. Kamilo Melo.

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