Hello and welcome! My name is Max Asselmeier.

Here is a little information about me:

I am from Wheaton, Illinois which is a northwest suburb of Chicago.

I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a BS in mechanical engineering and a minor in computer science.

I am a Robotics PhD student at Georgia Tech where I am advised by Patricio Vela and Ye Zhao.

I am investigating how to design a theoretically grounded, perception-informed framework for legged navigation that can provide formal guarantees about safety and task completion.

I love working with robots, going to concerts, and playing soccer!

September 2024: We submitted some work on perception-informed planning for mobile robots in dynamic environments to ICRA 2025.
May 2024: I presented our multi-modal motion planning framework for quadrupeds at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan
January 2024: Some work of ours on multi-modal motion planning for quadrupeds on rebar grids was accepted to ICRA 2024
April 2023: I was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
January 2023: Some initial work from our labs' collaboration on quadrupedal navigation was accepted to ICRA 2023