Accepted at #OCEANS2026 🚀 Our paper, BIND-USBL: Bounding IMU Navigation Drift using USBL in Heterogeneous ASV–AUV Teams, at OCEANS 2026 China. Very glad to have also received a travel grant. Work with Rajini Makam,
@swarmdynamics.bsky.social and Suresh Sundaram
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2604.11861
Pranav Kedia, Rajini Makam, Heiko Hamann, Suresh Sundaram
BIND-USBL: Bounding IMU Navigation Drift using USBL in Heterogeneous ASV-AUV Teams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11861
Pranav Kedia, Rajini Makam, Heiko Hamann, Suresh Sundaram: BIND-USBL: Bounding IMU Navigation Drift using USBL in Heterogeneous ASV-AUV Teams https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11861 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.11861 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.11861
Pranav Kedia, Marie Messerich, Tim Landgraf: COMB: Common Open Modular robotic platform for Bees https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04980 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.04980 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.04980
Season’s greetings from Lake Constance 🎄⛵
Santa went full roboticist this year: reindeer replaced by sailboat robots 😂
When life gives you a fish, you sail with it. 🐟⛵🤖
Our autonomous sailboat and robotic fish finally met on Lake Constance — and the footage did not disappoint. 🌊
Big thanks to @swarmdynamics.bsky.social , Hun Jang and Liang Li for making this happen.
#robotics #swarm #autonomy #maritime
Oops forgot to tag our cluster @cbehav.bsky.social here
When life gives you a fish, you sail with it. 🐟⛵🤖
Our autonomous sailboat and robotic fish finally met on Lake Constance — and the footage did not disappoint. 🌊
Big thanks to @swarmdynamics.bsky.social , Hun Jang and Liang Li for making this happen.
#robotics #swarm #autonomy #maritime
Full room for Eleonora Gatti's talk at @css-conference.bsky.social, presenting our analysis on the energetic benefits of using social information, in the case study of large soaring birds 🦅 @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025 Siena 🇮🇹
After two great opening keynotes at @css-conference.bsky.social, my students @nomaanhusain.bsky.social and Sindiso Mkhatshwa present their research in lightening plenary talks. #swarmRobotics #collectiveBehaviour #CCS2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Siena 🇮🇹
Hey #CCS2025 friends, before your dinner🍝 in Siena, come to Simay Atasoy's poster to discover how many robots can be optimimally allocated to many tasks! While this problem seems computationally untractable, she found how to solve it efficiently! @cbehav.bsky.social @css-conference.bsky.social
First Call for Papers - ANTS 2026
Darmstadt, Germany | June 8–10, 2026
ants2026.org
The 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence invites submissions on the theme:
"Reaching beyond – swarm intelligence across systems, disciplines, and communities".
🗓️ Submission deadline: 10 Nov 2025
Last month I pitched @fallingwallslabdk.bsky.social BW at @uni-konstanz.de 🚀
Shared my project SailSwarm — tiny wind-powered robots reimagining ocean monitoring 🌊🤖
Big ideas, 3-min limits, and a room full of future-shapers. What a ride! #FallingWallsLab #SailSwarm #SciComm #OceanTech
The sixth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) continues with a #keynote by Pranav Kedia on #BioMimetic #sailboat #swarms
#BioInspiration
@cbehav.bsky.social
https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/
Autonomous sailboats? Check. Lecture? Check. Boat-on-stage entrance? @praked.bsky.social stole the show at #KSCB2025. 😎⛵
Falling Walls Lab Baden-Württemberg | 18. Juli 2025, 14 Uhr | im Data Theatre (Gebäude ZT) an der #UniKonstanz: Der internationale Pitch-Wettbewerb bietet Studierenden und Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen eine Bühne, um ihre wissenschaftlichen Ideen zu präsentieren. Details: https://t1p.de/qjgu6
Today at the CASCB Seminar, we dive into marine robotics! We’re delighted to welcome Mike Benjamin (MIT), who will talk about evolving unmanned marine vehicles into collaborative, coordinated swarms.
What happens when autonomy goes collective? Come find out.
12:00 | ZT 702 & online @uni-konstanz.de
We have a full house . Konstanz School of Collective Behavior is off to a great start with Iain Couzin as our opening keynote speaker @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social
Heading to #OCEANS2025 in Brest 🇫🇷!
Working on autonomous sailing robots (SailSwarm) & keen to meet others in marine robotics, ocean monitoring & cool tech.
Let’s grab a coffee ☕ — or if you're based in Bretagne, I’d love to visit your lab/project too!
DMs open ⛵🌊
🌍 Join the Heat & Cognition ManyLabs project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally.
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#ManyLabs #EnvironmentalPsychology
🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally.
Contribute & co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...
#EnvironmentalPsychology
And I have seen what happened after this. Hints for others: the tie changed its place :)
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A good 54% of people are unfavorable of Musk. And well, Mark (or should I say Zuck) is hated bipartisanly, I guess!
Hi all! We are happy to announce that we are now on bluesky!! 🥳
We are The Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) based in @uni-konstanz.de, Germany focused on the study of collective behaviour across species and environments
Here to bluer skies! 🦋
🎉 Excited to share that I've been awarded the PANDOTA Fund for Doctoral Research at @uni-konstanz.de , support of €5,000
Grateful to my group,
@swarmdynamics.bsky.social & CASCB Konstanz. Excited to advance research in swarm & field robotics challenges! 🌍🤖
Here's to impactful solutions in 2025
Photo of Johns Hopkins Campus
I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025! CS PhD Deadline: Dec. 15th.
I work on safe/reliable ML and causal inference, motivated by healthcare applications.
Beyond myself, Johns Hopkins has a rich community of folks doing similar work. Come join us!
CfP: 2025 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference idea.gm.th-koeln.de?p=742 #optimization #ai #ml
Can I get added as well? I work with some autonomous sensing boats in Konstanz :)
Disney Research has unveiled a skinless humanoid robot that tracks faces, mimics expressions, blinks, and even "breathes." 🤖
With 19 degrees of freedom and a chest sensor, it captures subtle gaze and head movements, creating an eerily lifelike presence. #Robotics #AI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8_V...
Another random thing to do after those lists on bsky :)
