In the news

April 2008 : CNET article on bio-inspired cooperation of multiple robots.

April 2008 : Daily Pennsylvanian article on two major research grants.

March 2008 : ONR MURI award on heterogeneous unmanned network teams.

February 2008 : GRASP leads $22M center on autonomous micro-systems (MAST).

February 2007 : Daily Pennsylvanian article on MSE in Robotics.

August 2006 : Philadelphia Inquirer article on fighting fire with robots.

March 2005 : Daily Pennsylvanian article on multi-university swarming project.

November 2004 : Penn Engineering News article on Talent Takes Wing.

May 2004 : Daily Pennsylvanian article on PECASE award.

May 2004 : National Science Foundation press relase on 2002 PECASE award.

May 2004 : White House press release on 2002 PECASE award.

May 2004 : University of Pennsylavnia press release on 2002 PECASE award.

April 2004 : NSF press release on our NSF ITR project with Caltech and Minnesota.

April 2004 : Wired News article on our NSF ITR project with Caltech and Minnesota.

August 2001 : University of Pennsylvania press release on NSF ITR project.

August 2000 : University of Pennsylvania press release on DARPA MoBIES project.

June 2000 : SIAM News article on the future of air traffic control.

Awards

April 2007 : Hadas Kress Gazit and Georgios Fainekos are finalists for the best student paper award at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation.

December 2006 : Michael Zavlanos is a finalist for the best student paper award at the 2006 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in San Diego, CA.

December 2004 : Stephen Prajna is a finalist for the best student paper award at the 2004 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in the Bahamas.

June 2004 : Hakan Yazarel is a finalist for the best student paper award at the 2004 American Control Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.

May 2004 : NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

February 2002 : National Science Foundation Career Award.

December 2001 : Paulo Tabuada is a finalist for the best student paper award at the 2001 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Orlando, Florida.

June 2001 : Paulo Tabuada is a finalist for the best student paper award at the 2001 American Control Conference in Arlington, Virginia.

May 1999: Eli Jury Award for Excellence in Systems Research, University of California at Berkeley

December 1998 : Finalist for the best student paper award at the 1998 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Tampa, Florida.

January 2005. George J. Pappas