Summer Scholars 2021 Project Posters & Videos

Mentored By: Dr. Abhinav Gupta

Transfer Exploration in RL: A Study on Recent Count-Based Methods

By: Jacob Adkins

Sparse Reconstruction for Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation

By: Daniel Ekpo

Generalization in Reinforcement Learning through Representation

By: Rutav Shah

Mentored By: Dr. Artur Dubrawski

Weakly Supervised Classification of Respiratory Rate Vital Sign Alerts as Real or Artifact

By: Arnab Dey

Generating Stenosis Regions of Interest in X-Ray Coronary Angiography Using Deep Neural Networks

By: Jennifer Liu

ROCCER Evaluation Within Federated Classifier Selection for Improved Identification of Center Collaboration Opportunities

By: Willa Potosnak

Evaluation of AutoML Systems Using OpenML Datasets

By: Maya Sitaram

Mentored By: Dr. Carmel Majidi

Growing Compliant Mechanisms from Mycelial Materials

By: Danielle Brennan

Mentored By: Dr. Christoph Mertz

Human Detection, Classification & Tracking in Context of Transit Systems

By: Chigozie Ofodike

Detecting and Classifying Waste Bin Garbage Levels Along Transit Bus Routes

By: Elias Rotondo

Mentored By: Dr. Deva Ramanan

Class-Imbalanced Learning via Bilevel-Optimized Weight Decay

By: Shaden Alshammari

Mentored By: Dr. Howie Choset

User Centered Approach for Developing a Robot Assisted Femoral Vascular Access Device for the Battlefield

By: Lama Bahanan

Self-learning of Crawling Behavior for a Modular Quadruped Robot with Bayesian Optimization

By: Chuan Li

Control System Modeling for Closed-Loop Controlled Ventilator

By: Zaria Oliver

Multi-Agent Path Finding for Convex Polygon-Shaped Agents

By: Nayana Suvarna

Mentored By: Dr. Isaac Isukapati

Multi-agent Coordination for Automation of U.S. Air Force Installed Systems Testing

By: Lauren Blanks

Mentored By: Dr. Jack Mostow

Replicating Bugs Faster

By: Evolone Layne

Mentored By: Dr. Jean Oh

Reason & Act: A Modular Approach to Explanation Driven Agents for Vision and Language Navigation

By: Shaunak Halbe

Gander: A Comprehensive Machine Learning Media Synthesis Platform & Style-CLIPDraw: A Style-Transferred Text-to-Drawing Synthesis Method

By: Zhixuan Liu

Semantic Segmentation in Complex Scenes for Robotics Navigation

By: Zhanxin Wu

Mentored By: Dr. John M. Dolan

Probabilistic Safe Reinforcement Learning using Control Barrier Function for Autonomous Vehicle Ramp Merging Control

By: Quanzhi Fu

Delay-aware Robust Control for Safe Autonomous Driving

By: Dvij Kalaria

Solving Common Road Motion Planning Benchmarks Using CILQR

By: Shivesh Khaitan

Learning a CBF Controller for Adaptive Cruise Control Under Model Uncertainty

By: Emanuel Munoz Panduro

Optimal Control for High Relative Degree Systems Under Uncertainty Using Exponential Control Barrier Functions

By: Spencer Van Koevering

Mentored By: Dr. Katia Sycara

Synthetic Data Generation for the Natural Language Component of an Artificial Social Intelligence Agent

By: Ryan Aponte

Modelling Human Trust in Commanding of Robot Wingmen

By: Manav Kulshrestha

Multi-agent Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in Urban and Search Rescue

By: Long Le

Understanding Human Activities in Search and Rescue Task

By: Ruiyu Li

Explanations in Multi-Agent Search and Rescue Task

By: Manav Singhal

Concept Whitening for Transfer of Concepts in Imitation Learning

By: Grace Su

Concept Whitening for Interpretability in Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning

By: Renos Zabounidis

Mentored By: Dr. Matthew Travers

Joint SLAM on Multiple Monocular Cameras for Legged Robots

By: Thomas Detlefsen

Mentored By: Dr. Melisa Orta Martinez

AlgeGloves: An Interactive Algebra Interface that Allows Students to Mold Algebraic Functions

By: Iqui Balam Heredia Marin

Mentored By: Dr. Michael Kaess

Multiple Robot Dataset for Analyzing Distributed Inference Under Perceptual Aliasing

By: Thomas Snyder

Mentored By: Dr. Nancy Pollard

Development of a Force Sensing Glove for the Analysis of Dynamic Motions

By: Molly Loughney

Mentored By: Dr. Oliver Kroemer

Tree Modeling for Robotic Manipulation Using a 3D Autoencoder

By: Christian Eberle

Discovering Affordances from Visual Perception in the Carnegie Mellon Ballbot

By: Dimitria Silveria

Mentored By: Dr. Reid Simmons

Facial Expressions for Quori Using ROS and Gazebo

By: Allison Moore

Context-Sensitive Template-Based Text Generation for Robotic Agents

By: Peter Vanegas

Mentored By: Dr. Sarah Bergbreiter

Tuning the Mechanical and Aerodynamic Properties of the WhiskSight Sensor for Improved Flow and Stimuli Detection

By: Courage Lahban

Mentored By: Dr. Sebastian Scherer

Multi-Modal Socially-Aware Imitation Learning for General Aviation

By: Jasmine Aloor

Trajectory Planning for a UAV Wrench Task Considering Vehicle Dynamics and Force Output Capabilities

By: Andrew Ashley

Automatic Multi-modal Calibration of Stereo Cameras Thermal Cameras and Lasers in Arbitrary Scenes

By: Taimeng Fu

GPU Enhanced Front-end for Visual-inertial Odometry

By: Yao He

AirObject: An Evolving Topological Graph-based Object Encoding for Semantic Loop Closure

By: Nikhil Varma Keetha

SiamFIND: Towards One-shot Informed Interesting Object Detection

By: Bowen Li

Unsupervised Visual to Thermal Image Translation and Registration

By: Xinhang Liu

Randomized Approach to Informative Path Planning for Multiple UAVs

By: Rachel Moan

Informative and Fast Exploration Planning Using UAV for Reconnaissance Operations

By: Kaleb Ben Naveed

Model Based Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Off-Road Driving

By: Ashley Peake

Learning with Noisy Extrinsics for Robust and Real-Time 360° Depth Prediction

By: Conner Pulling

Ensembles for Online Dynamics Modeling in Off-road Terrain

By: Matthew Sivaprakasam

Drone Camera Calibration via Neural and Heuristic Method

By: Longwen Zhang

Mentored By: Dr. Srinivasa Narasimhan

Automatic Detection of Road Work and Construction with Deep Learning Models and a Novel Dataset

By: Brian Chen

Mentored By: Dr. Stephen Smith and Dr. Isaac Isukapati

Accurate Pedestrian Localization for Urban Crosswalks

By: Rayna Hata

Mentored By: Dr. Zachary Manchester

Toward the Use of Model Predictive Control for Quadrotor Flight

By: Fausto Vega

Mentored By: Dr. Zeynep Temel

An Affordable and Accessible Educational Manipulator

By: Samuel Alvares