Michael Fulton, PhD

Michael Fulton, PhD

Robotics software developer and researcher. I work on complex problems in marine robotics.

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HREye paper accepted at ICRA 2023

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I’m pleased to announce that my paper “HREyes: Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Novel Method for AUVs to Communicate Information and Gaze Direction”, has been accepted for publication at ICRA 2023! While I won’t be able to attend due to my impending graduation, I am overjoyed that this paper has been published, particularly given that this was a first attempt at publishing this paper. Read more

Award Result at IROS 2022

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Unfortunately, our paper “Robotic Detection of a Human-Comprehensible Gestural Language for Underwater Multi-Human-Robot Collaboration” did not win best Cognitive Robotics paper at IROS 2022. Congratulations to the other finalists and, of course, the winner! Read more

R2RCVM accepted at IROS 2022

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I’m excited to announce that my paper with Sadman Sakib Enan on Robot-to-Robot Communication via Motion has been accepted for publication at IROS 2022, in Kyoto. I’m even more excited to announce that it’s a finalist for the best paper in Cognitive Robotics! I won’t be attending, but I’m looking forward to the presentation of this paper. Enan developed R2RCVM based on my original implementation of RCVM, and I helped to evaluate his new version by determining that human participants could accurately transcribe gestural conversations between robots. Read more

RCVM accepted at RSS 2022

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I’m pleased to announce that my paper on Robot Communication via Motion has been accepted for publication at Robotics: Science and Systems in New York City. I’ll see you there! Read more

ADROC accepted at ICRA 2022

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I’m happy to announce that my paper with Jungseok Hong and Junaed Sattar on the Autonomous Diver-Relative Operator Configuration algorithm (ADROC) has been accepted for publication at ICRA 2022! I’m excited to present this work at ICRA, it describes a novel technique for diver approach by and AUV using only monocular vision. This method includes a rough distance estimation method based on biological priors (diver shoulder width) which has been quite interesting to work with. Read more

RCVM paper accepted for publication in THRI

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I’m happy to announce that my paper with Chelsey Edge and Junaed Sattar on the method of robot body language communication method I created: Robot Communication Via Motion (RCVM) has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction! This paper is nearly 40 pages, and was a labor of love: three studies are described in this paper including a very arduous evaluation of the effect of viewpoint, message content, and robot domain on the effectiveness of RCVM and other communication methods. The paper will be available at some time in the future at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3495245 Read more

Website Initialization

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Welcome to my personal website! Here you will be able to find up-to-date publications, talks, teaching information, and some information about my research in general. Check back here from time to time if you’d like to learn about what I’m doing. Otherwise, you can check out my github for recent coding projects, my Twitter for recent news and personal opinon, or my Google Scholar/ORCID for another source of research information. If you are interested in contacting me, please DM me on Twitter, or look me up at my current institutional emails. Read more

portfolio

LoCO-AUV

A Low-Cost, Open Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Collaboration with many IRVLab members. Read more

publications

talks

LoCO-AUV

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This talk was conducted online due to COVID-19, in the form of a pre-recorded video. Slides are available in pdf form here (videos not embedded). Read more

teaching

Teaching Assistant for CSCI 4061: Operating Systems

Undergraduate course, University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2019

In the Spring of 2019, I served as a teaching assistant for CSCI 4061: Operating Systems. My duties included teaching two weekly labs and office hours, proctering and grading exams, and designing, developing, and creating automated grading for one large programming assignment. The class had a total size of some 400 students, and my two labs were comprised of approximately twenty sustends each. Read more

Teaching Assistant for CSCI 5551: Introduction to Intelligent Robotic Systems

Graduate course, University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2020

In the Fall of 2020, I served as a TA for the graduate level course: CSCI 5551: Introduction to Intelligent Robotic Systems. I helped to run the course website, created, administered, and evaluated a programming-based homework on ROS, and taught a lecture on ROS, the Robot Operation System. It was a challenging semester, due to the new online-learning paradigm necessitated by COVID, but it was rewarding nontheless! It was really fun to teach students about ROS and help them to learn real robot programming skills, even without access to real robots. Read more