Roberto Tron

Roberto Tron is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Affiliate Professor of Systems Engineering  at Boston University. Before joining BU, he was a Post-doctoral Researcher in the GRASP Laboratory at University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Professor Kostas Daniilidis and Prof. Vijay Kumar. He received his PhD. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2012, and was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania until 2015.  He received his M.Sc. (2007) and B.Sc. (2004) degrees (highest honors) from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He received a Diplome d’Engenieur from the Eurecom Institute in 2006. 

Professor Tron’s research interests lie at the intersection of automatic control, robotics and computer vision. He is particularly interested in applications of Riemannian geometry and linear programming in problems involving distributed teams of agents, or geometrical and spatio-temporal constraints. Professor Tron is currently working on a variety of challenges raising at different levels of multi-agent systems, ranging from low-level perception (robust distributed data association in images), to single-agent control (enforcing safety with in continuous time with discrete-time control), to robust multi-agent estimation (outlier-robust localization and mapping), to high-level multi-agent planning under spatio-temporal constraints (temporal logic and security specifications). He is also interested in subspace clustering and its application to motion segmentation in videos. He is the main author of the Hopkins 155 dataset, a popular benchmark for multiview affine motion segmentation.