Solmaz S. Kia--News

August 2022

Two papers will be presented in IROS 2022. These papers are already published in RAL.

September 2020

September 2: Jianan Zhu has successfully defended his PhD! The title of his dissertation is "UWB-based Infrastructure-free Cooperative Localization for First-Responders". Jianan will start with Pony.ai, a company focused on self-driving cars very soon.

August 2020

August 31: Yi-Fan Chung has successfully defended his PhD! The title of his dissertation is "Distributed Dynamic Tracking: Multi-Agent Leader-Following and Targets Coverage". Yi-Fan will start as an Associate Research Fellow in the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology, Taiwan, very soon.

November 2019

Elevated to IEEE Senior member level.

June 2015

 Awarded the Single Investigator Research grant from the Council on Research, Computing, and Libraries - UCI Division.

 Kyle Bendickson joined our research group as undergraduate student researcher.

  Our paper on distributed processing for UKF cooperative localization is accepted in IEEE 2015 International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI).

May 2015

 Attanding and presenting at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , Seattle, WA

Feb. 2015

  Feb 6th: Participating as a judge in 2015 Symposium of California Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, UC Irvine

Jan. 2015

  Our paper "Cooperative Localization under Message Dropouts via a Partially Decentralized EKF Scheme" will appear in ICRA 2015

  Jan. 23: Invinted talk at Center for Control, Dynamical-Systems, and Computation, UC Santa Barbara

  Congradulations to Minhoh Han for winning a UROP grant on his proposal "RFID Tags as Identifiers and Localization Landmarks in Mobile Robotics Experiments"

Dec. 2014

 Attanding and presenting at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Los Angeles, CA

Nov. 2014

 Attanding Southern California Control Workshop , UC Riverside

Oct. 2014

  one paper is submitted to ICRA 2015

Sep. 2014

 Attanding and presenting in IROS2014, Chicago, IL

Jul. 2014

 Our paper on distributed event-triggered communication for dynamic average consensus will appear in CDC 2014

 I started as Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UCI

 Invited talk in RSS Workshop: Distributed Control and Estimation for Robotic Vehicle Networks, UC Berkeley

Jun. 2014

 Attanding and presenting in ACC2014, Portland, Oregan

May 2014

  Our paper on decentralized cooperative localization for a group of mobile robots is accepted in IROS 2014 conference.

Apr. 2014

 A new journal submission to Automatica
 Accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Irvine!
 Attanding UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program's 2014 Academic Retreat, Lake Arrowhead, CA
 Seminar at ME Dept. University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Mar. 2014

 Seminar at ME Dept. UC Merced
 Seminar at MAE Dept. UC Davis
 We submitted a paper to CDC 2014

Feb. 2014

 We submitted a paper to IROS 2014

Jan. 2014

 Seminar at MAE Dept. UC Irvine

25 Oct. 2013

 Attending 25th Southern California Control Workshop

Sep. 2013

 We submitted a paper to American Control Conference

May 2013

 MAE Seminar @ UCI

Mar. 2013

 Our paper on a static average consensus with controllable rates of convergence is accepted in SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications

Feb. 2013

 Our paper on singularly perturbed continuous-time dynamic average consensus is accepted in ECC 2013