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Evening@SMART: Dr. Yiannis Aloimonos Wednesday, August 6, 2025 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. USMSM SMART Building For More Information: Lauren Bacon 301 226 6033 lbacon1@umd.edu https://matrix.umd.edu/events/eveningsmart August 6, 2025: Dr. Yiannis Aloimonos "Minimal Active Perception for Embodied AI Design in Nano UAV Autonomy" Dr. Yiannis Aloimonos Professor Department of Computer Science University of Maryland, College Park Biography State-of-the-art in aerial robot autonomy utilizes sensors that directly perceive the world in 3D and require a massive amount of computation. This is in stark contrast to the methods used by small living beings such as birds and bees; they use exploratory and active movements to gather more information to simplify the perception task. Using this active vision-based philosophy, we achieve state-of-the-art autonomy on nano-quadrotors using minimal on-board sensing and computation. This talk will outline several methods of achieving activeness on an aerial robot. Full abstract Registration: https://go.umd.edu/evening-smart-0806 Presentation will be at the USMSM SMART Building, 44219 Airport Road, California, MD 20619 Agenda 5:00-5:30 - Networking with refreshments 5:30-6:30 - Presentation 6:30-7:00 - Q&A and discussion  This Event is For: Clark School • Graduate • Undergraduate • Faculty • Staff • Post-Docs