Hello and welcome!

My name is Max Asselmeier, and 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, and I am currently a Robotics PhD student at Georgia Tech where I am co-advised by Dr. Patricio A. Vela (IVALab) and Dr. Ye Zhao (LIDAR Group).

At Georgia Tech, I am investigating how to design a perception-informed framework for legged navigation that can cater different sets of planners and controllers to different settings based on a robot's level of familiarity with its environment.

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

March 2025	I just purchased a roomba, my cats have no idea what's coming.
January 2025	Our work on perception-informed planning for mobile robots in dynamic environments was accepted to ICRA 2025! Excited to see everyone in Atlanta! Party at my place.
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.