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.
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Current Postdoctoral Researchers
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Martin Jacquet
Topic: Data-driven Model Predictive Control |
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Etor Arza
Topic: Evolutionary Robot Design |
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Luca Zanatta
Topic: Data-driven Navigation Policy Learning |
Current PhD Candidates
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Paolo De Petris
Topic: Fast and resilient collision-tolerant navigation for aerial robots |
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Nikhil Khedekar
Topic: Multi-modal simultaneous localization and mapping for perceptually degraded environments |
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Mihir Dharmadhikari
Topic: Risk-aware and Semantics-driven Informative Path Planning |
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Mihir Kulkarni
Topic: Resilient learning-based fast flight in cluttered environments |
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Jørgen Anker Olsen
Topic: Resilient Robotic Autonomy for Exploring Martian and Lunar Lava Tubes |
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Morten Nissov
Topic: Resilient Localization in Perceptually Degraded Environments |
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Mohit Singh
Topic: Resilient Localization in Challenging Underwater Environments |
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Marvin Harms
Topic: Safe Learning-Based Navigation and Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles |
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Grzegorz Malczyk
Topic: Semantically-driven Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Inspection |
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Minh Bui
Topic: Semantic Scene Reasoning |
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Welf Rehberg
Topic: Scalable Reinforcement Learning for Evolutionary Design of Aerial Robots |
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Angelos Zacharia
Topic: Heterogeneous Robotic Systems-of-Systems for rapid exploration |
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Omkar Sawant
Topic: Data-driven Navigation Policy Learning in Confined Environments |
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Fatma Youssef Mohammed Abdelfattah Mohamme
Topic: Semantic Reasoning through Attentive Perception |
Engineers
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Mikkel Stårvik
Topic: Robot design |
Alumni
Graduated PhD Students
- Dr. Shehryar Khattak, First position after graduation: PostDoc, Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich
- Dr. Tung Dang, First position after graduation: Autonomy Engineer, Skydio
- Dr. Frank Mascarich, First position after graduation: Robotics Engineer, Anduril
- Dr. Huan Nguyen, First position after graduation: Autonomy Engineer, Hyke
Postdoctoral Researchers
- Dr. Christos Papachristos, First position after our lab: Assistant Professor, University of Nevada Reno
- Dr. Sotirios Diamantas, First position after our lab: Assistant Professor at Tarleton State University
Other previous lab members
- Tejal Barnwal - Sensorized Robot Paws
- Satchel Hirsch - Autonomous Object Detection
- Russell Reinhart - Supervised Learning for Autonomous Exploration
- Harpreet Singh - Road Anomaly Detection
- Valerie Pober - Ground Robot Design
- 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
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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