The Autonomous Robotics and Perception Group

I joined ARPG halfway through Fall semester of my Junior Year. I was brought on initially to build hardware in support of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Team, MARBLE. My first project was to design and fabricate a number of deployable communication beacons to be used in the subterranean environments. I then transitioned to a more research heavy role, and over this past summer I researched socially-aware navigation strategies. I've also been involved in research on attention-based algorithms for visual perception, as well as a few smaller scale projects.

I've split up a few of these projects into separate pages, which can all be accessed below. Research with ARPG has been a great experience and has solidified my aspirations to continue my research and education through a PhD program.

Summer 2020 - Present

Beginning this past summer I have been researching methods to effectively path plan and motion plan in populated environments. I've looked at dynamic planning and replanning algorithms to avoid people, and am currently researching ways to learn socially acceptable navigation behavior through deep reinforcement learning.

Fall 2020 - Present

I've been working alongside a PhD student in the lab to develop smart algorithms to control a gimbaled camera in order to focus on important features for map building, localization or object detection.

Fall 2019

I designed and built these deployable communications beacons, with some help from other students in the lab, to be used in the DARPA Subterranean challenge.