Day: May 31, 2025

Lunar Lab Attends ICRA 2025

From May 19 to 23, 2025, the entire Lunar Lab attended the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), held in Atlanta, Georgia. Lab members organized an workshop, delivered workshop keynotes, oral and poster presentations, and participated in various professional and social events, including the Doctoral Consortium, RAS Technical Committee lunch, RAS Editorial Board dinner, and the Georgia Tech IRIM party. Several lab members also supported the conference as volunteers!

Lunar Lab ICRA Schedule

Selected Oral Presentations

Selected Poster Presentations

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ICRA 2025 was an exciting and rewarding experience for the entire Lunar Lab. From presenting our research to engaging in insightful discussions and meaningful community events, the conference offered valuable opportunities to share our work, learn from others, exchange ideas, connect and contribute to the broader robotics community. We look forward to reconnecting with fellow researchers and friends at future conferences!

Daniel Butterfield and Muskan Bawa Attend the Robotics Research Showcase

At the annual Georgia Tech Robotics Research Showcase, Lunar Lab members Daniel Butterfield and Muskan Bawa presented their research during the poster session on April 15, 2025. The event offered a valuable opportunity to engage with robotics students and faculty from across Colleges and Schools at GT. Daniel presented his ECE 8751 Multidisciplinary Robotics Research project, advised by Prof. Lu Gan and Prof. Ye Zhao, while Muskan showcased her M.S. in Robotics Capstone project, advised by Prof. Lu Gan and Prof. Yashwanth Kumar Nakka.

Lunar Lab Hosts Engaging Robotics Tour for Local Youth Group

On April 16 2025, the Lunar Lab hosted a lab tour for the local Young Men’s Group. The outreach event was a great success — both youth and adults were fully engaged through interactive robot demonstrations and lively Q&A sessions with our lab members throughout the visit.

We conducted an engaging and educational live flight demonstration for the group, showcasing the sensing capabilities of our drone platform in real time. The demo gave the audience a tangible understanding of core technologies such as visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and multi-robot coordination, inspiring them to envision the transformative potential of these innovations in advancing environmental monitoring, disaster response, and logistics automation.

Our collaborator and special guest, Tomohiro Sasaki, delivered an engaging demonstration of an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) using our Jackal robot, showcasing its capabilities in autonomous navigation and vision-based control. He also shared his forward-looking vision for the development and deployment of autonomous rovers in future space exploration missions to the group, highlighting the potential of ground-based robotic systems in supporting extraterrestrial operations.

Special thanks to Daniel for organizing this amazing event, and to Sandilya and Tomohiro for delivering engaging presentations and robot demonstrations!