One of the best parts of my job is the many brilliant students I have the opportunity to mentor. Here is a (somewhat incomplete) list of the students and their projects.

2018

• Keenan Albee - Kinodynamic motion planning for Astrobee, with arm motion.
• Andrew Bylard - Motion planning based on differential geometry.
• Abhishek Cauligi - Sampling-based motion planning for Astrobee.
• Chris Ericksen - Learning object recognition from limited data.
• Ruben Garcia - Android improvements for Astrobee and much more.
• Brian Hou - Planning for non-prehensile manipulation.
• Evelyn Huang - Controlling Astrobee while grasping large objects.
• Amit Palekar - Astrobee guest science examples and face tracking.
• Ben Saeks - Astrobee arm firmware and drivers.
• Robbie Selwyn - Astrobee guest science and signal lights.
• Peter Wofford, Vivek Kumar, and Bryce Van Ross - Astrobee ZeroRobotics competition.

2017

• Marcelino Almeida - Astrobee obstacle mapping.
• Miguel Borges - Open source Vive drivers for localization ground truth (publication, software).
• Teresa Conceicao - Joint calibration of depth and visual cameras (publication).
• Max Feinberg - Mapping and localization with different cameras.
• Karen Orton - Astrobee Gazebo simulator.
• Gwang Ho Park - Astrobee signal lights.
• Jefferson Ridgeway - Automated regression testing for localization.

2016

• Nolan Cate, Chelsea Ackroyd, Anton Surunis - Measuring surface water changes in Lake Tahoe (video).
• Philip Cooksey - Astrobee replanning in response to failures.
• Pyojin Kim - Localization in changing lighting conditions (publication, video).