University of Michigan Field Robotics Group

Welcome to the University of Michigan Field Robotics Group (FRoG)! Our research spans robotics, computer vision, and machine learning with a focus on enabling autonomy in dynamic, unstructured, or remote environments across field robotics applications.

Upcoming

• Prof. Katie Skinner is participating in several workshops and presentations upcoming at IROS 2023:

  • First Workshop on Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis for Robotics (PIES-Rob) (Full day workshop on Sunday, Oct. 1st)

  • Presentation on "Leveraging Synthetic Data for Learning-Based Marine Robot Perception" at the PIES-Rob Workshop

  • Workshop on Novel Sensors for Autonomous Vehicle Perception (Half-day workshop on Sunday, Oct. 1st)

  • Presentation at the Workshop on Robotic Perception and Mapping: Frontier Vision & Learning Techniques (ROPEM)

• FRoG PhD Candidate Advaith Sethuraman will present "STARS: Zero-shot Sim-to-Real Transfer for Segmentation of Shipwrecks in Sonar Imagery" at the 2023 British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). *selected for oral presentation