Robotics

Robohub Podcast – Swarms in Space, with Giovanni Beltrame

Listen to another podcast from the team at Robohub. More podcasts from them can be found here.

In this episode, Lilly interviews Giovanni Beltrame, Professor of Computer and Software Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal where he directs the Making Innovative Space Technology (MIST) lab.

Beltrame highlights the technical challenges of exploring another planet with a swarm of robots controlled by an astronaut operator. They discuss minimizing cognitive load for the operator, analogue missions to volcanic lava tubes on Earth, and spherical hopping robots for the moon.

Giovanni Beltrame

Giovanni Beltrame received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 2001, the Laurea degree in computer engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2002, the M.S. degree in information technology from CEFRIEL, Milan, in 2002, and the PhD degree in computer engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, in 2006.

He worked as an engineer at the European Space Agency until 2010, and he is currently a Professor at École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, where he directs the MIST Laboratory.

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Lillian Clark

Lilly Clark is a PhD Student in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California.

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