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!

What's New

October 2026
    I am officially on the job market! If you are reading this, please hire me.
October 2026
October 2026
    We submitted our failure detection and recovery framework for humanoids to ICRA 2027. Fingers crossed!
July 2026
    Our chapter for the Springer book Algorithms for Machine Vision in Navigation and Control about gap-based planning in dynamic environments is now available!.
June 2026
    I witnessed Germany lose to Paraguay on penalties in the world cup in person. That one stung a little bit.
June 2026
    I will be interning at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) this summer! Looking forward to working on foundation models for humanoids.
May 2026
    I gave my ROBO PhD Proposal on perception-informed semantic autonomy for legged systems. Thank you to my committee members Dr. Ye Zhao, Dr. Patricio A. Vela, Dr. Sehoon Ha, Dr. Lu Gan, and Dr. Zak Kingston!
August 2025
    We wrote a chapter for the Springer book Algorithms for Machine Vision in Navigation and Control about gap-based planning in dynamic environments! Set to be published in 2026, but pre-print available on arXiv.
March 2025
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
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.