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  • 2007 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to visual servo control and robot motion planning

Overview

Seth Hutchinson is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans widely across engineering and computer science, with primary expertise in control systems, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

Their work focuses on several main topics related to robotics, including:

  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Robotic Locomotion and Control
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
  • Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
  • Guidance and Control Systems

Hutchinson's subfields of specialization include Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist has published extensively in prominent venues, notable among them:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
  • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Frequent collaborators of Hutchinson include Nancy M. Amato, Venkat Krovi, Torsten Kroeger, Robert Ambrose, and Stefano Stramigioli.

Selected recent publications illustrate the range and focus of their research:

  • "A Roadmap for US Robotics - From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition" (2021), published in Foundations and Trends in Robotics
  • "Learning Generalizable Vision-Tactile Robotic Grasping Strategy for Deformable Objects via Transformer" (2024), IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
  • "Exponential Control Lyapunov-Barrier Function Using a Filtering-Based Concurrent Learning Adaptive Approach" (2021), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • "GRSTAPS: Graphically Recursive Simultaneous Task Allocation, Planning, and Scheduling" (2021), The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • "Momentum-Aware Trajectory Optimization and Control for Agile Quadrupedal Locomotion" (2022), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Hutchinson has contributed to academic publishing beyond journal articles, including a book titled Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XIII (2020), published by Springer International Publishing.

Throughout their career, Hutchinson has been recognized for contributions to visual servo control and robot motion planning. This recognition includes being named an IEEE Fellow in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Robot Modeling and Control

    Mark W. Spong;Seth Hutchinson;M. Vidyasagar

  • A tutorial on visual servo control

    S. Hutchinson;G.D. Hager;P.I. Corke

  • Visual servo control. I. Basic approaches

    F. Chaumette;S. Hutchinson

  • Visual servo control. II. Advanced approaches [Tutorial]

    F. Chaumette;S. Hutchinson

  • A new partitioned approach to image-based visual servo control

    P.I. Corke;S.A. Hutchinson

  • Optimal motion planning for multiple robots having independent goals

    S.M. LaValle;S.A. Hutchinson

  • Planning sensing strategies in a robot work cell with multi-sensor capabilities

    S.A. Hutchinson;R.L. Cromwell;A.C. Kak

  • A biomimetic robotic platform to study flight specializations of bats

    Alireza Ramezani;Soon Jo Chung;Seth Hutchinson

  • Stable Visual Servoing Through Hybrid Switched-System Control

    N.R. Gans;S.A. Hutchinson

  • Visual compliance: task-directed visual servo control

    A. Castano;S. Hutchinson

  • A framework for real-time path planning in changing environments

    Seth Hutchinson;Peter J. Leven

  • Visual servoing and visual tracking

    François Chaumette;Seth Hutchinson

  • Estimating uncertainty in SSD-based feature tracking

    Kevin Nickels;Seth Hutchinson

  • Coordinating the motions of multiple robots with specified trajectories

    S. Akella;S. Hutchinson

  • Path planning for permutation-invariant multirobot formations

    S. Kloder;S. Hutchinson

  • Optimal Paths for Landmark-Based Navigation by Differential-Drive Vehicles With Field-of-View Constraints

    S. Bhattacharya;R. Murrieta-Cid;S. Hutchinson

  • Planning exploration strategies for simultaneous localization and mapping

    Benjamín Tovar;Lourdes Muñoz-Gómez;Rafael Murrieta-Cid;Moisés Alencastre-Miranda

  • Real-time vision, tracking and control

    P.I. Corke;S.A. Hutchinson

  • Homography-Based Control Scheme for Mobile Robots With Nonholonomic and Field-of-View Constraints

    Gonzalo López-Nicolás;Nicholas R Gans;Sourabh Bhattacharya;Carlos Sagüés

  • On the Existence of Nash Equilibrium for a Two-player Pursuit-Evasion Game with Visibility Constraints

    Sourabh Bhattacharya;Seth Hutchinson

  • Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementation ERRATA!!!! 1

    Howie Choset;Kevin Lynch;Seth Hutchinson;George Kantor

Frequent Co-Authors

Soon-Jo Chung
Soon-Jo Chung California Institute of Technology
Peter Corke
Peter Corke Queensland University of Technology
Magnus Egerstedt
Magnus Egerstedt University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mark W. Spong
Mark W. Spong The University of Texas at Dallas
Jean-Paul Laumond
Jean-Paul Laumond École Normale Supérieure
François Chaumette
François Chaumette University of Rennes
Panagiotis Tsiotras
Panagiotis Tsiotras Georgia Institute of Technology
Cyrill Stachniss
Cyrill Stachniss University of Bonn
Danica Kragic
Danica Kragic Royal Institute of Technology
A. Stephen Morse
A. Stephen Morse Yale University

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