Fig. 1. The individual under investigation.
Fig. 2. Stress and procrastination levels in the last 7 days.
Stress is measured by the number of flagged messages in the email inbox;
procrastination is measured by the median age of those messages
(materials and methods, complete historical plots).
also:
third
fourth
fifth year
Ph.D. student,
Control and Dynamical Systems,
California Institute of Technology
advisor: Richard Murray
Maui, Hawaii :-)
ICRA 2012, Minneapolis
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One of my ICRA papers is a finalist for the best student paper award. (Nice to know in advance, last year they did not tell me!)
For the first time in my life, I now wear prescription glasses: they were the last requirement before graduation.
This is a recent talk I gave, and it is the best introduction to my current research: PDF (16MB), Keynote (36MB; zip).
Our DARPA MSEE project is ramping up; the website is now online.
Some recent work on bootstrapping:
Final versions for recent papers:
A basic tutorial for ROS incoming summer students created by our Scott.
Our bootstrapping paper (slides) was one of the finalists for the best conference paper award at ICRA 2011 in Shanghai. Congrats to the winners (the GRASP lab at UPenn) and the other runner-up (the German DLR, with their robotic arm).
Some recent work: Bootstrapping, uncertain semantics, and invariance (PDF). Partial slides now available.
Some recent work: A group-theoretic approach to formalizing bootstrapping problems (PDF). See also the supplemental videos page.
Added links to slides for most of the papers in the publications page.
Here's a cool video which shows the simulated visual input of a free-flying Drosophila Melanogaster.
Updated pages: my publications list; Research interests and recent highlights; List of recent software projects; list of favorite quotes.
A recent project: PyContracts, a Python package that allows to declare constraints on function parameters and return values. It supports a basic type system, variables binding, arithmetic constraints, and has several specialized contracts (notably for Numpy arrays).
I'm TAing ME132a-b, "Advanced Robotics: Navigation and vision", which this year is taught by the Computer Vision Group at Nasa JPL.
Also, Ivan Dryanovski created a ROS wrapper.