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Vijay Kumar
UPS Foundation Professor
School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
University of Pennsylvania

Affiliations

• Chairman, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
• Computer & Information Science (Secondary Appointment), School of Engineering & Applied Sciences,University of Pennsylvania
• General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab (GRASP), University of Pennsylvania
• Graduate Group in Computational Biology, University of Pennsylvania

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)
• ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Conferences

• International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2008), Athens, Greece, 2008
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska, 2010
• ASME DETC/CIE Conferences, Philadelphia, 2006
• Robotics Science and Systems, Philadelphia, 2006
• International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2006), Rio di Janeiro, Brazil, 2006

Workshops

• CCC Workshop on Research Roadmap for Robotics in Manufacturing and Automation, Washington DC, June, 2008
• Contact Models for Manipulation and Locomotion, ICRA, Pasedena, 2008
• Cooperative Control of Multiple Heterogeneous UAVs, ICRA, Pasedena, 2008
• Second Workshop on Swarming in Natural and Engineered Systems, Philadelphia, 2007
• Collective Behaviors Inspired by Biological and Biochemical Systems, Barcelona, Spain, 2007

Committees

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
• ASME Mechanisms and Robotic Committee
• NAS Committee on Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope (report)
• NSF/NASA Committee on Assessment of International Research and Development in Robotics