[AI Seminar Series] REMINDER: Seminar by Prof. Igor Spasojevic, tomorrow Friday Sept. 26, 12-1pm, MRB Seminar Room

[Vassilis Tsotras]

Reminder for the first AI Seminar this quarter. Please register below if
you plan to attend.

V. Tsotras
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM Vassilis Tsotras <vassilis.tsotras at ucr.edu>
wrote:

> Colleagues, wishing you a happy start of the Fall Quarter!
>
> We will have the next AI Seminar this Friday Sept. 26th, 12:00-1:00pm at
> the MRB Seminar Room (1st floor).
>
> *** Pizza and refreshments will be provided ****
>
> To keep track of the number of attendees, please *register* at:
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-seminar-series-tickets-1732356718579
>
> The talk will be given by Prof. Igor Spasojevic, Department of Electrical
> and Computer Engineering, UCR
>
> TITLE: Fast navigation via identifying structure and leveraging learning
> for optimization
>
> ABSTRACT:
> Time-critical missions are among the most important classes of tasks yet
> to fully benefit from agile autonomous micro aerial vehicles. At the same
> time, such missions require developing algorithms that enable these robots
> to navigate safely, and make effective decisions on resource-constrained
> hardware. In this talk I will focus on algorithms for two classes of
> trajectory optimization problems for quadrotors. First, we shall look into
> the structure of perception-aware motion planning constraints that allow a
> vision-driven robot to traverse a given geometric path in minimum time
> while maintaining accurate state estimates at all times. Second, where only
> part of the structure can be identified, we shall turn to a fusion of
> model-based and learning-augmented approaches to synthesize
> dynamically-feasible trajectories at a fraction of the computational cost
> of traditional methods.
>
> Bio:
> Igor Spasojevic is an Assistant Professor in the Bourns College of
> Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. Prior to UCR he was
> a postdoc in the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception
> (GRASP) laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D.
> from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on
> algorithms for perception-aware motion planning for agile micro aerial
> vehicles. His research spans various types of optimization problems in
> robotics, recently with a focus on trajectory planning and autonomous
> exploration.
>
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> Sponsored by the RAISE at UCR Institute, the AI Seminar Series presents
> speakers working on cutting edge Foundational AI or applying AI in their
> research. The goal of these seminars is to inform the UCR community about
> current trends in AI research and promote collaborations between faculty
> in this emerging field. These seminars are open to interested faculty and
> graduate/undergraduate students. Please forward this email to other
> colleagues or students in your lab that may be interested. After the
> seminar a discussion will follow for questions, open problems, ideas for
> possible collaborations etc.
>
> Sincerely,
> Vassilis Tsotras
> Professor, CSE Department
> co-Director, RAISE at UCR Institute
>
> Amit Roy-Chowdhury
> Professor, ECE Department
> co-Director, RAISE at UCR Institute
>
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