Academic Collaborators
I have collaborated with several of the world's leading academics in Robotics. Some of these collaborations have led to research papers, others have also led to the development of new software packages that have since become the standard in open-source Robotics.
I had worked with and mentored some of the best interns Willow Garage has had. Here's (in reverse chronological order) the set of interns I have worked with or mentored over the last 6 years (Interns for whom I was the primary mentor are marked with a *):
I have collaborated with several of the world's leading academics in Robotics. Some of these collaborations have led to research papers, others have also led to the development of new software packages that have since become the standard in open-source Robotics.
- Lydia Kavraki (Rice University) - I have been collaborating with Professor Lydia Kavraki's group since 2008. This collaboration led to the development of OMPL - the Open Motion Planning Library - open-source software for motion planning. OMPL is now the most used motion planning library for randomized planning.
- Dinesh Manocha (UNC, Chapel Hill) - I collaborated with Professor Dinesh Manocha and his group, one of the world's leaders in collision checking and motion planning, to develop FCL - an open-source library for collision checking that is fast becoming the standard in collision checking.
- Maxim Likhachev (CMU) - I collaborated with Max's group to develop SBPL - the premier open source library for motion planning using search-based techniques. The collaboration led to several demonstrations extending the use of ARA* like planners to high-dimensional problems in manipulation.
- Sami Haddadin (DLR)
- Shaun Edwards (SwRI) - Shaun is the co-founder of the ROS-Industrial consortium. [Video]
- Roland Phillipsen (Stanford) - Roland is now an assistant professor at Halmstad University in Sweden
I had worked with and mentored some of the best interns Willow Garage has had. Here's (in reverse chronological order) the set of interns I have worked with or mentored over the last 6 years (Interns for whom I was the primary mentor are marked with a *):
- Robert Wilson* (Stanford, 2012-2013) - now with Redwood Robotics
- Scott Niekum* (UMass Amherst - now at CMU, Fall and Winter 2012) - Robot Programming through Demonstration: Building IKEA Furniture [Video]
- Alexandru Ichim (EPFL, 2012) - Simplifying the Process of Mapping and Modeling with Low Cost Sensors using only Depth Information [Video]
- Pablo Speciale - Enabling robots to see better through improved camera calibration [Video]
- David Lu!! (Washington U. St. Louis, Spring 2013) - Improving Navigation Interactions [Video]
- Tomasso Cavallari* (Bologna, 2012) - Object Detection on a Rotating Platform [Video]
- Dan Walker (Stanford, 2012)
- Sarah Elliott* (Waterloo, Fall 2012) - now interning at OSRF
- Jenny Barry (MIT, Spring 2012 - now with Rethink Robotics) - The ICRA Mobile Manipulation Challenge [Video]
- Jon Binney (USC, Spring 2012 - now with Willow Garage) - The ICRA Mobile Manipulation Challenge [Video]
- Tobias Kunz* (Georgia Tech, Summer 2012) - Dynamic Butler Trajectories [Video]
- Michael Phillips* (CMU, Summer 2011)
- Jia Pan* (University of North Carolina, Summer 2011, Summer 2012) - Flexible Collision Library and Motion Planning with Uncertainty [Video], [Video]
- Christian Connette* (Fraunhoffer IPA) - Path Optimization by Elastic Band [Video]
- Armin Hornung (University of Freiburg) - 3D Collision Avoidance for Navigation in Unstructured Environments using Octomap [Video]
- Joseph Romano (University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2010 - now with Kiva Systems) - Tactile Sensing [Video]
- Jonathan Scholz* (Georgia Institute of Technology, Summer 2010) - Cart Pushing [Video]
- Peter Pastor* (USC, Fall 2009, Summer 2010) - Policy Learning [Video], Dynamic Motion Primitives [Video]
- Mrinal Kalakrishnan* (USC, Summer 2009, Summer 2010) - STOMP [Video], CHOMP [Video]
- Jurgen Sturm (University of Freiburg) - Gripper Object Recognition
- Ioan Sucan* (Rice, Summer 2009 - now with Willow Garage) - Arm Navigation and the Grasping Pipeline
- Ben Cohen* (University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2009) - Search-based Planning for Manipulation [Video], The ICRA Mobile Manipulation Challenge [Video]
- Ruben Smits (Leuven - co-founded Intermodalics, Inc.) - Milestone 2 [Video]
- Matthew Piccoli* (University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2009 and Summer 2008) - Open-loop grasping with the PR2 gripper [Video]
- Paul Vernaza (University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2008 - now at CMU)
- Advait Jain* (Georgia Tech, Summer 2008 - now with Redwood Robotics)
- Matei Ciocarlie* (Columbia, Summer 2008 - now with Willow Garage)
- Jimmy Sastra* (University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2008 - now with a Silicon Valley Robotics Startup)
