Techno-Sciences, Inc. Sponsors Robotics Seminars

Techno-Sciences, Inc. Sponsors Robotics Seminars

Techno-Sciences, Inc. will provide financial sponsorship for the Maryland Robotics Center's seminar series, now named the “Techno-Sciences, Inc. Robotics Seminar Series," Maryland Robotics Center Director S. K. Gupta (ME/ISR) has announced.

"This generous sponsorship from Techno-Sciences Inc. will enable us to bring well known robotics experts to our campus," Gupta said. "This seminar series is intended to help our students learn about the latest advances in the robotics and also showcase our activities to robotics experts."

Techno-Sciences officials will be on hand for the first seminar of the semester on January 28, at 10:00 a.m. in 1146 A.V. Williams Building. The seminar speaker is Rogelio Lozano of the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, whose talk is titled, “Hovering Quad-Rotor Control: A Comparison of Nonlinear Controllers Using Visual Feedback."

The Maryland Robotics Center is housed within the Institute for Systems Research in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland.

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January 26, 2011