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People

We are a new team but share a great vision: making robots ubiquitous within our societies, contribute into the most critical relevant challenges, and most of all... enjoy this great journey!

Lab Head & Principal Investigator

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Dr. Kostas Alexis - Dr. Alexis is the head of the Autonomous Robots Lab and currently is a Full Professor at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Before joining NTNU, Dr. Alexis was an Associate Professor the University of Nevada, Reno and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, where he got tenured at the end of 5-th year of work. Prior to that Dr. Alexis had been working as a Senior Researcher at the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) of ETH Zurich led by Prof. Roland Siegwart. Dr. Alexis obtained his PhD on Unmanned Systems Control and Collaboration under the supervision of Prof. Anthony Tzes, at the Anemos Group of the University of Patras in Greece. Dr. Alexis has been the principal or co-principal investigator within multiple national and international research projects in the US and in Europe. 

Senior PostDoc Researcher

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Shehryar Khattak - My goal is to advance the ways robots understand their world and act within it. I am focusing on multi-modal localization and merge these technologies with intelligent path planning to enable cognizant behaviors for advanced robotic systems. ​

PhD Candidates

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Tung Dang - My ultimate goal is deploying the fully autonomous exploration robots by tightly closing the loop between robotics components: active perception, path planning and control. Currently, I am focusing on novel methods to exploit the best knowledge from multi-sensors system to enable cognizant robotic behaviors.
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Frank Mascarich - I graduated with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2016. I have a passion for hardware and integrated sensor system design, and I am currently developing a multi-modal sensor platform for localization and mapping.
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Đình Huân Nguyễn - I graduate from HCMUT. In my perspective, robots are the bicycles for our minds and bodies.
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Paolo De Petris - Currently working on agile flying robotic navigation.
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Nikhil Vijay Khedekar - I am currently conducting research on multi-modal sensor fusion for subterranean robotic autonomy.
Furthermore, our lab collaborates with ETH Zurich and in particular with Sebastian Verling, PhD Candidate at the Autonomous Systems Lab (co-supervised by Dr. Roland Siegwart and Dr. Alexis) for the development of hybrid VTOL platforms with advanced maneuvering and autonomy capabilities. Sebastian is also a co-founder of WingTra. 
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Graduate Research Assistants

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Harpreet Singh  - My research goal is to advance cognitive robotics by improving the way robots explore and reason about the environment. I am passionate about building novel learning algorithms that mimic human cognitive intelligence and apply them to robotics.
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Russel Reinhart  - Russel's immediate goals is to investigate the potential for reinforcement learning for tight-space subterranean navigation of robotic systems.

Undergraduate Researchers

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Satchel Hirsh - I am an undergraduate senior in Math and CS and I am working on Deep Reinforcement Learning while simultaneously supporting on image recognition tasks. 
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Valerie Pober - Working on a leg-wheel ground robotic system.

Special Researchers & Engineers

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Taylor Wilson - Taylor Wilson is an American nuclear physicist and science advocate. In 2008, at age 14, he became the youngest person to produce nuclear fusion, using a fusor. Taylor supports our lab in matters related with radiation detection, modeling, and localization. Among others, Taylor has a keen interest in utilizing robotics for the purposes of radiation monitoring. Know more about this outstanding work at http://www.sciradioactive.com/

International Scholars

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Mihir Dharmadikari - I am currently conducting research on motion-primitives based exploration path planning. 
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Mihir Kulkharni - I am currently conducting research on motion planning for multi-linked aerial robotic systems of systems. 

K12 Students

New K-12 Students to join the lab next summer period. For self-motivated projects contact us.

Alumni

  • Dr. Sotirios Diamantas, PostDoctoral Researcher in Computer Vision, now Assistant Professor at Tarleton State University
  • Varun Nayak - Aerial Manipulator Design - BITS Pilani
  • Ashutosh Singandhupe - Manned aircraft detection and real-time 3D mapping systems.
  • Niki Silveria - Pedestrian Detection for autonomous driving technologies. 
  • Mat Boggs - Machine learning for robot detection and fixed-wing robot development.
  • Dwight Boyko - Ground Robots Design.
  • Sidney Taylor, Davidson Academy (K-12 Outreach), Robot-blimp for indoor applications
  • Etzal Corona, Leg-wheel Robot Design
  • Jason Rush, Fixed-Wing and Autonomous Boat projects
  • Manuel Retana, Tension-based robotic locomotion
  • Ryan Gray - LiDAR based underground navigation
  • Grace Le - Deep Learning based thermal vision
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Who We Are

We are the Autonomous Robots Lab. We are striving for advanced long-term autonomy for ubiquitous robots in the real world!
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