Howie Choset
Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science
Studies snake robots, motion planning and robots for medical and inspection tasks.
Howie Choset's lab at CMU works on planning, control & multi-robot systems. 27 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly ICRA and Artificial Intelligence. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 30%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 1 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 1
- 3 papers2024 · T1 1
- 14 papers2023 · T1 5
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, Artificial Intelligence, IROS, PNAS, Science Robotics
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems10 papers
- inspection1 paper
- motion planning1 paper
- robots0 papers
- tasks0 papers
Paper list
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20261 paper
20259 papers
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), MayA Complete and Bounded-Suboptimal Algorithm for a Moving Target Traveling Salesman Problem with Obstacles in 3D (opens in a new tab)
- HSMRAutomatic Cannulation of Femoral Vessels in a Porcine Shock Model (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), MayBio-inspired Distributed Neural Locomotion Controller (D-NLC) for Robust Locomotion and Emergent Behaviors (opens in a new tab)
- Artificial Intelligence (T1)EMOA*: A framework for search-based multi-objective path planning (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), MayErgodic Exploration over Meshable Surfaces (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE CASEFrom Flat to Form-Fitting: A Computational Geometry Approach to 3D Conformal Electronics Design and Rapid Prototyping (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), MayMulti-Agent Ergodic Exploration under Smoke-Based Time-Varying Sensor Visibility Constraints (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), MayPropagative Distance Optimization for Motion Planning (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), MayWavelet-Based Distributed Coverage for Heterogeneous Agents (opens in a new tab)
20243 papers
- Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), OctoberA Complete Algorithm for a Moving Target Traveling Salesman Problem with Obstacles (opens in a new tab)
- PNAS (T1)Geometric phase predicts locomotion performance in undulatingliving systems across scales (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of DARS - Inter. Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic SystemsMeasure Preserving Flows for Ergodic Search in Convoluted Environments (opens in a new tab)
202314 papers
- ICRA (T1)A Curvature and Trajectory Optimization-based 3D Surface Reconstruction Pipeline for Ultrasound Trajectory Generation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USAFast Point to Mesh Distance by Domain Voxelization (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USAMulti-agent Collective Construction using 3D Decomposition (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USAMulti-Agent Multi-Objective Ergodic Search using Branch and Bound (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Multi-Objective Ergodic Search for Dynamic Information Maps (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USAMulti-Objective Sparse Sensing with Ergodic Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USAReal-Time Video Inpainting for RGB-D Pipeline Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- Science Robotics (T1)Representation Granularity Enables Time-Efficient Autonomous Exploration in Large, Complex Worlds (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Search Algorithms for Teamwise Cooperative Multi-Agent Path Finding (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Torque-Limited Manipulation Planning through Contact by Interleaving Graph Search and Trajectory Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USAToward Closed-loop Additive Manufacturing: Paradigm Shift in Fabrication, Inspection, and Repair (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USATowards Automated Void Detection for Search and Rescue with 3D Perception (opens in a new tab)
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Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
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- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
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