Summer Scholars 2017 Project Posters

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Jahdiel Alvarez

Traffic Sign Awareness System Through Faster-RCNN Detection and Optical Flow Based Tracking
Mentor: Dr. Christoph Mertz

Jonathan Alvarez

A Virtual Reality Glove for Kinesthetic Feedback Using Electroadhesive Clutches
Mentor: Dr. Carmel Majidi

Gabriel Arpino

Full Stack Swarm Architecture
Mentor: Dr. Katia Sycara

Fay Blelloch

Anomaly Detection and Forecasting for Malfunctioning Radiation Portal Monitors

Mentor: Dr. Artur Dubrawski

Eli Bronstein

Predicting Bus Dwell Times in Dense Urban Transit Networks Using Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling

Mentor:
Dr. Stephen Smith
Dr. Isaac Isukapati

Gerardo Consuelos

Additive Assembly: New Possibilities for Systems Integration

Mentor: Professor David Bourne

Mihael Cudic

Using a Locally Connected Auto-Encoder to Identify Candidate Alleles in Sorghum Bicolor

Mentor: Dr. Stephen Nuske

Mosam Dabhi

Experience Based Predictive Control Implementation at Embedded Level for Onboard Control

Mentor: Dr. Nathan Michael

Kshitij Goel

Experiments on Motion Primitives Based Teleoperation of Mobile Robots

Mentor: Dr. Nathan Michael

Rachel Gologorsky

Designed for Flexibility: A New Highway Simulation Environment for Inverse Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

Mentor:
Dr. John Dolan
Dr. Katharina Muelling

Deepthi Hegde

Mining Discriminative Intervals for Affective State Estimation

Mentor:
Dr. Fernando De La Torre Frade
Dr. Dong Huang

Conor Vincent Igoe

Predicting Bus Dwell Times in Dense Urban Transit Networks Using Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling

Mentor:
Dr. Stephen Smith
Dr. Isaac Isukapati

Anjana K. N.

High Throughput Plant Phenotyping: Light Interception Measurement

Mentor: Dr. Stephen Nuske

Roman Austin Kaufman

A Particle Filter Approach to Tracking Multiple Vehicles Over Time

Mentor: Dr. John Dolan

Kevin Brian Kwan Chong-Loo

Wheelchair Pose Detection Using Single Monocular Images

Mentor: Dr. Luis Navarro-Serment

Rebecca McManus

Contact Bridge Inspection: Using Drones to Improve Infrastructure

Mentor: Dr. Sebastian Scherer

Stephanie Milani

A-Faster R-CNN: Generating Hard Positive Examples via Adversary for Traffic Sign Detection

Mentor: Dr. Christoph Mertz

Aisha Hassan Mohamed

Autonomous Coarse Localization

Mentor: Professor David Bourne

Daniele Moro

Inverse Kinematics of Soft Robots Using Neural Networks

Mentor: Dr. Stelian Coros

Kyle Morris

Full Stack Swarm Architecture

Mentor: Dr. Katia Sycara

Ingrid Navarro Anaya

A Faster RCNN-Based Wheelchair Recognition and Tracking System

Mentor: Dr. Luis Navarro-Serment

Dat Nguyen

Densely YOLOv2 and Hierarchy-Exclusion Graph for Real-time for Traffic Sign Detection System

Mentor: Dr. Christoph Mertz

Kartik Patath

Visual System for a Modular 6-Legged Robot

Mentor: Dr. Howie Choset

Rohith Krishnan Pillai

Student Behavior Analysis Using Affective State Estimation in RoboTutor

Mentor: Dr. Jack Mostow

Vinitha Ranganeni

Focusing Footstep Planning for Humanoids Using Homotopy-Class Guidance

Mentor: Dr. Maxim Likhachev

David Russell

Generalizable Pose Estimation for Plush Robots Using RFID Sensing

Mentor: Dr. Stelian Coros

Mayank Saxena

Student Behavior Analysis Using Affective State Estimation in RoboTutor

Mentor: Dr. Jack Mostow

Samuel Shaw

CPG-Based Inertial Stabilization of a Hexapod Robot

Mentor: Dr. Howie Choset
Dr. Guillaume Sartoretti

Yunfei Shi

Distributed Learning for the Decentralized Control of Articulated Mobile Robots

Mentor: Dr. Howie Choset
Dr. Guillaume Sartoretti

Griffin Tabor

Unsupervised Techniques to Augment Fully Supervised Classification of Parkinson’s Tremor

Mentor:
Dr. Fernando De La Torre Frade
Dr. Dong Huang

Fatma Tlili

Traffic Sign Tracking Using Optical Flow Estimation

Mentor: Dr. Christoph Mertz

Tevon James Walker

Active Occlusion Handling in Vision-Based Yield Estimation Systems

Mentor: Dr. Stephen Nuske

Matthew Wilson

Natural Language Communication with a Dynamically Stable Mobile Robot

Mentor:
Dr. Ralph Hollis
Dr. Jean Oh

Chun Ming Jeffrey Zhang

Optimization of the Use of Motion Profiling in the First Robotics Competition with a New Velocity Profile Generator

Mentor: Dr. George Kantor

Tejas Ajay Zodage

Hand-Held Stiffness Measuring Device for Tumor Detection

Mentor: Dr. Howie Choset