Summer Scholars 2018 Project Posters

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Hameed Abdul

An End-to-End Framework for Landslide Erosion Analysis

Mentor: Dr. Christoph Mertz

Nawaf Alotaibi

Design and Modeling of a Custom Unmanned Aerial Manipulator for Bridge Inspection

Mentor: Dr. Sebastian Scherer

Jahdiel Alvarez

Road Marking Quality Assessment System Through Semantic Segmentation

Mentor: Dr. Christoph Mertz

Yesus Becerril

Constructing a Map and a Human Driving Dataset from Birds-Eye View Video

Mentor: Dr. John M. Dolan

Sahit Chintalapudi

Homotopy-Based Footstep Planning for Humanoid Robots Operating in Complex 3D Spaces

Mentor: Dr. Maxim Likhachev

Maggie Collier

Eye Gaze Behavior during Telemanipulation of a Multi-stage Task

Mentor: Dr. Henny Admoni

Emily Duan

Efficient Redistribution of Heterogeneous Swarm Robots for Building Security

Mentor: Dr. Katia Sycara

William Edwards

Planning with Unreliable Controllers

Mentor: Dr. Maxim Likhachev

Kyuto Furutachi

Falling Cat Robot Feedback Acquisition and Its Evaluation

Mentor: Dr. Howie Choset

Jack Good

Robust Bayesian Aggregation for Radioactive Source Detection

Mentor: Dr. Artur Dubrawski

Max Gordon

Online Learning for Obstacle Avoidance with Powered Transfemoral Prostheses

Mentor: Dr. Hartmut Geyer

Mononito Goswami

What’s Most Broken? Statistical Probe of Tutoring for Data-Driven Improvement of Intelligent Tutors

Mentor: Dr. Jack Mostow

Quintessa Guengerich

A modular tactile sensor demonstrated during object grasping

Mentor: Dr. Carmel Majidi

Adarsh Karnati

Trajectory Prediction of a Fixed-Wing UAV using Sequence-to-Sequence RNNs

Mentor: Dr. Sebastian Scherer

Tushar Kusnur

Multi-UAV Persistent Coverage for Multiple Target Visitation Frequencies

Mentor: Dr. Maxim Likhachev

Gaini Kussainova

Segmentation of Humans from LIDAR Point Clouds Using Visual Pose Estimation

Mentors: Dr. Martial Hebert
Dr Luis E. Navarro-Serment

Aidan Lakshman

Analysis of DSRC Accuracy for Pedestrian Localization

Mentor: Dr. Isaac K. Isukapati
Dr. Stephen F. Smith

Yike Li

FPGA Acceleration for High Dimensional Inverse Kinematics

Mentor: Dr. Howie Choset
Dr. Lu Li

Yiwei Lyu

Social Behavior Estimation For Autonomous Vehicles

Mentor: Dr. John M. Dolan

Enrique Maytorena

Two-State Control Structure for 2 DOF Aerial Manipulator on 6 DOF Hexarotor

Mentor: Dr. Sebastian Scherer

Shiven Mian

What’s Most Broken? Statistical Probe of Tutoring for Data-Driven Improvement of Intelligent Tutors

Mentor: Dr. Jack Mostow

Stephanie Milani

Creating a Scalable Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Norm-Rich Environments

Mentor: Dr. Katia Sycara

Akari Minami

A Realistic Simulation System for Environmental Understanding of Autonomous Driving Vehicles

Mentor: Dr. John M. Dolan

Ingrid Navarro-Anaya

Real-Time Semantic Segmentation of Sparse LIDAR Point Clouds Using SqueezeSeg and Recurrent CRF

Mentors: Dr Luis E. Navarro-Serment

Viraj Parimi

Comparison of Numerical Integration Methods for Bayesian Inference

Mentor: Dr. Isaac K. Isukapati
Dr. Stephen F. Smith

Zhiyi Ren

Toward Robust Stair Climbing of the Quadruped using Proprioceptive Sensing

Mentor: Dr. Aaron Johnson

Vivek Roy

Using Optical Flows and a CNN for Visual Object Tracking

Mentor: Dr. Martial Hebert

David Russell

Using Optical Flows and a CNN for Visual Object Tracking

Mentors: Dr. Martial Hebert

Shaden Shaar

Road Marking Quality Assessment System Through Semantic Segmentation

Mentor: Dr. Christoph Mertz

Junyan Su

Hardware Acceleration for Sensor Data Fetch

Mentor: Dr. Howie Choset

Scott Sussex

Functional Trajectory Forecasting and Consistency Guarantees for Self-Driving Cars in Social Settings

Mentor: Dr. John M. Dolan

Jiawei Tang

Efficient Extrinsic Calibration System of a Camera and a 3D LiDAR with Accurate Feature Extraction and Error Diagnostics

Mentor: Dr. Michael Kaess

Brandon Trabucco

Visually Descriptive Image Captions: Improve Your Model With No Additional Training

Mentor: Dr. Ralph Hollis
Dr. Jean Oh

Dapeng Zhao

In-pipe Robot Localization with Reciprocal Sensor Fusion

Mentor: Dr. William (Red) L. Whittaker

Yang Zhou

Extrinsic Calibration Algorithm between a Stereo Visual System and 3D LiDAR

Mentor: Dr. Michael Kaess