Professor — Principal Investigator
Maxim Likhachev is a Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on planning and decision-making for autonomous systems, with particular emphasis on search-based planning algorithms that provide guarantees on completeness and solution quality.
Researchers actively working with the lab.
Yorai earned a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021. His research interests span multi-robot task and motion planning, robotic manipulation, generative models, and computer vision. He works to harness insights from established planning algorithms to address messy real-world challenges in manipulation.
Itamar is a PhD student in the Search-Based Planning Lab. His research interests include multi-robot task and motion planning, robotic manipulation, and generative models.
Former members of the lab. Many of the entries below were imported
from the archived sbpl.net site and reflect each member’s
role at that time; some career-history details are still being filled
in.
Now: Research Scientist at Amazon Robotics
Ram worked on marrying graph search methods with trajectory optimization.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
PhD student in CIS at the University of Pennsylvania. Worked on search-based planning for manipulation; co-authored the foundational SBPL manipulation papers (ICRA 2010, RSS 2014, IJRR 2013).
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
PhD student in MEAM at the University of Pennsylvania, co-advised with V. Kumar. Pioneered the search-based homotopy-class constrained path-planning line of work (RSS 2011 Best Paper Award).
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
PhD student in the SBP Lab at CMU. Interests in robot design, system integration, path planning, exploration, navigation, and high-level control. Previously a Navy Officer for 19 years, qualified Ship's Engineer on USS Oklahoma City (SSN-723) and division officer on USS Toledo (SSN-769). Past lab projects include the Segbot and the Hexacopter UAV.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
PhD student in CIS at the University of Pennsylvania, co-advised with B. Taskar.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
PhD student in CIS at the University of Pennsylvania, co-advised with A. Safonova. Worked on numerical sound propagation and demonstration-based training of NPC behaviour.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
PhD student in MEAM at the University of Pennsylvania, co-advised with V. Kumar.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
PhD student in CIS at the University of Pennsylvania. Worked on planning with adaptive dimensionality and on R*-GPU search.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
PhD student in Robotics at CMU, co-advised with A. Stentz. Worked on planning under uncertain human intentions in navigation.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
PhD student in CIS at the University of Pennsylvania, co-advised with A. Safonova. Worked on stochastic activity authoring and game-based data capture.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
PhD student in Robotics at CMU. Author of the original SIPP, E-Graphs and Multi-Heuristic A* lines of work.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
PhD student in Computer Science.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
PhD student. Worked on parts-assembly planning under uncertainty and tethered-robot path planning using MHA*.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Masters (later PhD) student in Robotics at CMU. Built much of the Deliberative-Perception line of work culminating in PERCH (ICRA 2016) and D2P (RSS 2016).
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Masters student at SBPL. Co-author on the original Multi-Heuristic A* paper (RSS 2014 / IJRR 2015).
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Masters student at SBPL.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Masters student at SBPL.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Masters student at SBPL. Co-author on Multi-Heuristic A* (RSS 2014 / IJRR 2015) and on lazy validation of Experience Graphs (ICRA 2015).
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Long-time research staff member of SBPL. Co-author on many lab papers covering search-based manipulation planning, exploration, and a single-planner approach to multi-modal humanoid mobility.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Research staff member at CMU. Worked on path planning for non-circular micro aerial vehicles in constrained environments (ICRA 2013) and landing-site selection for aerial supply delivery (IROS 2011).
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Research staff at SBPL. Worked on time-bounded lattice planning (ICRA 2009) and on landing-site selection in aerial supply delivery.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Research staff at SBPL. Co-author on state-lattice with controllers for augmenting lattice-based path planning (IROS 2014).
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Software developer at SBPL.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Research staff at SBPL. First author on motion planning for the smooth pick-up of moving objects (ICRA 2014).
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Summer intern / off-site developer at SBPL. Built the web-based infrastructure for recording user demonstrations of mobile manipulation tasks (ICRA 2015).
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Summer intern at SBPL.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Summer intern at SBPL.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Summer 2012 intern at SBPL.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Summer intern at SBPL.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Summer intern at SBPL. Co-author on state-lattice with controllers (IROS 2014).
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Summer intern at SBPL.
sbpl.net (~2012-2015)
Former member at SBPL. Co-author on combining global and local planning with guarantees on completeness (ICRA 2012).
A few snapshots from the lab over the years (recovered from the
archived sbpl.net site).
