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Dr. David Saldaña

Head of Laboratory
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Lehigh University
E-mail
saldana [at] lehigh.edu
Office address
Office: 319
Building C
Mountaintop Campus
Lehigh University

Photo by Eric Sucar at Penn Today

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.

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
Robot Swarms, perimeter surveillance, resilient consensus.

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

Publications

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2016

Predicting Environmental Boundary Behaviors With a Mobile Robot

Saldaña, David; Assunção, Renato; Campos, Mario F. M.

Predicting Environmental Boundary Behaviors With a Mobile Robot Journal Article

In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 1133-1139, 2016, ISSN: 2377-3766.

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Dynamic perimeter surveillance with a team of robots

Saldaña, David; Alitappeh, Reza J.; Pimenta, Luciano C. A.; Assunção, Renato; Campos, Mario F. M.

Dynamic perimeter surveillance with a team of robots Proceedings Article

In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 5289-5294, 2016.

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2015

Saldaña, David; Assunção, Renato; Campos, Mario F. M.

A distributed multi-robot approach for the detection and tracking of multiple dynamic anomalies Proceedings Article

In: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1262-1267, 2015.

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Saldaña, David; Melo, Ramon; Nascimento, Erickson R.; Campos, Mario F. M.

Detecting Latent Variables of Interest in Geo-localized Environments Using an Aerial Robot Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Brazilian Robotics Symposium and Latin American Robotics Symposium (SBR-LARS), 2015.

BibTeX

Saldaña, David; Chaimowicz, Luiz; Campos, Mario F. M.

Searching for Regions Out of Normal Conditions Using a Team of Robots Proceedings Article

In: Ösorio, Fernando S.; Wolf, Denis Fernando; Branco, Kalinka Castelo; Jr., Valdir Grassi; Becker, Marcelo; Romero, Roseli" (Ed.): Robotics, pp. 1–15, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015, ISBN: 978-3-662-48134-9.

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2014

Saldaña, David; Chaimowicz, Luiz; Campos, Mario F. M.

Searching and Tracking Anomalies with Multiple Robots: A Probabilistic Approach Proceedings Article

In: 2014 Joint Conference on Robotics: SBR-LARS Robotics Symposium and Robocontrol, pp. 67-72, 2014.

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