Hi! I’m David Saldaña

Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering
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Latest News

Jul 11, 2020
Robotics research

- Our recent work on aerial modular robots was accepted for the Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL) with ICRA2020 presentation: Inflight Self-reconfiguration.

- Our recent work on resilient robot swarms was accepted at ACC2020 and ICRA2020.

- Two papers on modular aerial robots were accepted at ICRA2019. Including inflight Self-disassembly and Modquad-Vi.

- Our paper "Resilient Backbones in Hexagonal Robot Formations” was a best paper finalist at the Int. Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems DARS 2018.

- Two accepted papers at ICRA 2018: ModQuad and the Flying gripper.

Publications

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About Me

I am Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at Lehigh University. Before joining Lehigh, I worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, with Prof. Vijay Kumar.

I completed my PhD in Artifical Intelligence and Robotics, advised by Prof. Mario Fernando Campos , and Prof. Renato Assunção, in the Laboratory of Computer Vision and Robotics - VeRLab, Department of Computer Science at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.


Photo by Eric Sucar at Penn Today

Research Interests

Flying Modular Robots

Multi-rotor systems, self-assembly algorithms, cooperative flying robots.

Environmental Monitoring

Prediction of environmental boundaries, Multi-robot coordination.

Resilient Robot Swarms

Multi-robot systems, Perimeter surveillance, resilient behaviors.

Academic Timeline

2005 - 2010 B.Sc. in Engineering of Systems and Informatics Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia
2011 - 2012 M.Sc. in Engineering - Systems Engineering Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia
2013 - 2017 PhD. in Computer Science Laboratory of Computer Vision and Robotics - VeRLab
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
2015 - 2017 Visiting Reseach Scholar GRASP Laboratory
University of Pennsylvania, USA
2017 - 2019 Post-Doctoral Researcher GRASP Laboratory
University of Pennsylvania, USA
2019 - present Assistant Professor Computer Science & Engineering
Lehigh University, USA