Cai, L., E. McGuire, N., Hanlon, R., Mooney, T.A., Girdhar, Y. "Semi-Supervised Visual Tracking of Marine Animals using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles" International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2023.
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Kayser, M.* Cai, L.*, Falcone, S., Bader, C., Inglessis, N., Darweesh, B., Costa, J., Oxman, N. "FIBERBOTS: An Autonomous Swarm-based Robotics System for Digital Fabrication of Fiber-based Composites." Springer Construction Robotics, Dec. 2018.
[paper]
Kayser, M.* Cai, L.*, Falcone, S., Bader, C., Inglessis, N., Darweesh, B., Costa, J., Oxman, N. "Design of a multi-agent, fiber composite digital fabrication system." Science Robotics, Sep. 2018.
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Keating, S. J., Leland, J., Cai, L., "Toward site-specific and self-sufficient robotic fabrication on architectural scales." Science Robotics, Apr. 2017.
[paper][video]
Conference Publications
Girdhar, Y., McGuire, N., Cai, L., Jamieson, S., McCammon, S., Claus, B., San Soucie, J., Todd, J., Mooney, T.A. "CUREE: A Curious Underwater Robot for Ecosystem Exploration." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.
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Salazar, J., Cai, L., Cook, B., Rus, D. "Multi-Robot Visual Control of Autonomous Soft Robotic Fish." IEEE AUV, 2022.
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Cai, L.*, Boyacioglu, B., Webster, Van Uffelen, L., S.E., Morgansen, K. "Towards Auto-tuning of Kalman Filters for Underwater Gliders based on Consistency Metrics." IEEE OCEANS, 2019.
[paper]
Girdhar, Y. Cai, L., Jamieson, S., McGuire, N., Flaspohler, G., Suman, S., Claus, B. "Streaming Scene Maps for Co-Robotic Exploration in Bandwidth Limited Environments." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019.
[paper]
Kayser, M. Cai, L., Falcone, S., Bader, C., Inglessis, N., Darweesh, B., Costa, J., Oxman, N. "FIBERBOTS: Design and Digital Fabrication of Tubular Structures Using Robot Swarms." RobArch, Aug. 2018. (Best Paper Award) [paper]
Conference Presentations and Workshops
Cai, L., Yang, D. X., Jezequal, Y., Mooney, T. A. , Girdhar, Y. ““Robot Goes Fish: Rapid, High-Resolution Biological Hotspot Mapping in Coral Reefs with Vision-Guided Autonomous Underwater Vehicles” IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) CV4Animals Workshop, 2023.
[poster]
Cai, L., McGuire, N. E., Hanlon, R., Mooney, T. A., Girdhar, Y. “Semi-supervised Visual Tracking of Marine Animals in the Wild.” IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) CV4Animals Workshop, 2022.
[poster]
Cai, L., Hanlon, R., Girdhar, Y. “Evaluation of Semi-supervised Visual Object Tracking Methods For Fully Autonomous In-situ, Tagless Tracking of Marine Animals.” IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) CV4Animals Workshop, 2021.
[poster]
“WARPAUV: A low-cost, vision-guided AUV for robotics research.” Northeast Robotics Colloquium, 2019. Poster.
"Digital Construction Platform." Northeast Robotics Colloquium, 2017. Poster.
[NERC site]
"Digital Construction Platform." MIT RoboCon, 2017. Presentation.
[MIT RoboCon site]