Summer Scholars 2019 Project Posters

Mentored By: Dr. Henny Admoni

Nadia Al Mutlak

Incorporating Eye Gaze Into Shared Autonomy for Assistive Robots

Mentor: Dr. Henny Admoni

Mentored By: Dr. Howie Choset

Haoran Cheng

Force-controlled Surface Exploration of Ultrasound Probe

Mentor: Dr. Howie Choset

Jiafan Hou

Pre-computed Alternative Paths and the Evaluation for Indoor Navigation Based on Elevation Information

Mentor: Dr. Howie Choset

Mentored By: Dr. John M. Dolan

Het Shah

Motion Planning for Urban Driving Including Evasive Maneuvers Using iLQR

Mentor: Dr. John M. Dolan

Samuel Triest

Low-Level Continuous Control for Highway Ramp Merging in Dense Traffic

Mentor: Dr. John M. Dolan

Mentored By: Dr. Artur W. Dubrawski

Carl Edwards

Using Similarity Measures to Detect Organizations in Online Escort Advertisements

Mentor: Dr. Artur W. Dubrawski

Chufan Gao

Detecting Physiological State Changes During Blood Loss via Deep Unsupervised Learning

Mentor: Dr. Artur W. Dubrawski

Harshayu Girase

Anomalous Pattern and Systematic Error Detection in Radiation Portal Monitors via Robust Deep Autoencoders

Mentor: Dr. Artur W. Dubrawski

Mononito Goswami

Learning about Cognitive Disequilibrium and Flow: An Exploratory Study

Mentor: Dr. Artur W. Dubrawski

Mentored By: Dr. Abhinav Gupta

Valerie Chen

Towards Hierarchical Problem Solving using Natural Language Instructions

Mentor: Dr. Abhinav Gupta

Mentored By: Dr. Zakia Hammal

Maimoon Siddiqui

Deep Spatio-Temporal Video Based Analysis for Shoulder Pain Intensity Measurement

Mentor: Dr. Zakia Hammal

Mentored By: Dr. Martial Hebert

Vivek Roy

Multitask Learning Combining Detection, Segmentation, Tracking and Forecasting

Mentor: Dr. Martial Hebert

Mentored By: Dr. David Held

Yimin Tang

Adaptive Multimodal Fusion for Grasping Transparent and Specular Objects

Mentor: Dr. David Held

Ziwen Zhuang

Tactile Only Active Sensing Using Reinforcement Learning

Mentor: Dr. David Held

Mentored By: Dr. Dong Huang

Yutian Lei

Signal Processing for Enviroment-Invariant WiFi Human Sensing

Mentor: Dr. Dong Huang

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

Quintessa Guengerich

Statistical Simulation for Multi-Agent Scheduling under Uncertainty

Mentor: Dr. Isaac Isukapati and Dr. Stephen Smith

Rebecca Martin

Using Fixed Route Transit to Improve Paratransit Service Quality

Mentor: Dr. Isaac Isukapati and Dr. Stephen Smith

Mentored By: Dr. Aaron Johnson and Dr. Matthew T. Mason

Letong Wang

Traversability Analysis for Highly Maneuverable Wheeled Robots

Mentor: Dr. Aaron Johnson and Dr. Matthew T. Mason

Mentored By: Dr. Michael Kaess

Zilin Si

Degeneracy Detection for RGB-D Odometry

Mentor: Dr. Michael Kaess

Mentored By: Dr. Maxim Likhachev

Daniel Feshbach

Angle-Specific Goal Assignment for Persistent Coverage

Mentor: Dr. Maxim Likhachev

Ashton Larkin

Enhancing Autonomy in Warehouse Truck Unloading Via Greedy Optimizations

Mentor: Dr. Maxim Likhachev

Patrick Naughton

Learning to Fail: Failure Plans and Predictions for Crowd Navigation

Mentor: Dr. Maxim Likhachev

Sushant Wadavkar

Trajectory Tracking for Aggressive Quadrotor Flight using L1-Adaptive Control

Mentor: Dr. Maxim Likhachev

Chenxiao Yu

Kalman Filter-Based Real-Time Detection and Localization of Objects on Conveyor Belt

Mentor: Dr. Maxim Likhachev

Mentored By: Dr. Changliu Liu

Kenneth Shaw

Maximizing Agent Utility in Human-Robot Interaction Assembly Tasks

Mentor: Dr. Changliu Liu

Mentored By: Dr. Jack Mostow

Mansi Agarwal

Semi-Supervised Learning to Perceive Children’s Affective States in a Tablet Tutor

Mentor: Dr. Jack Mostow

Mentored By: Dr. Luis Ernesto Navarro-Serment

Ivana Collado

Detection of Static Pedestrians from Vertically Sparse 3D Point Clouds

Mentor: Dr. Luis Ernesto Navarro-Serment

Mentored By: Dr. Jean Hyaejin Oh and Dr. Ji Zhang

Xinjie Yao

Autonomous Human-aware Navigation in Dense Crowds

Mentor: Dr. Jean Hyaejin Oh and Dr. Ji Zhang

Mentored By: Dr. Sebastian Scherer and Dr. Oliver Kroemer

Andrew Saba

Systems Development for Aerial Manipulation Tasks

Mentor: Dr. Sebastian Scherer and Dr. Oliver Kroemer

Mentored By: Dr. Reid Simmons

Vicky Zeng

Implementing Face Recognition on a Social Scrabble-playing Robot

Mentor: Dr. Reid Simmons

Mentored By: Dr. Katia Sycara

Raghavv Goel

Dynamic Task Allocation Using Multi-Agent Mobile Robots

Mentor: Dr. Katia Sycara

Sharmistha Gupta

Imitation Learning for Latent Factors in Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems

Mentor: Dr. Katia Sycara

Simran Virk

Efficient Dynamic Replanning for Risk Aware Graph Search

Mentor: Dr. Katia Sycara

Boshi Wang

Developing Ethical Agents via Context-Sensitive Modular Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Mentor: Dr. Katia Sycara