Occasionally JPL Robotics hosts visiting researchers who come to our institution to work with us. Stays can extend from a few months for the summer, to multiple years for fellowships. Typically funding for these researchers is obtained by them from sponsoring agencies or their home institutions. If you are a researcher in robotics with funding for a period away, please contact us to discuss the possibilities.
| Name |
Home Institution |
JPL Point of Contact |
Period of Visit |
| Pawel Malczyk |
Warsaw University of Technology |
Rudra Mukherjee |
2/12 - 3/12 |
| Activity: Parallel computing software implementations of computational multibody dynamics algorithms to be used for modeling articulated rigid bodies. |
| Dorian Tsai |
Aalto University |
Issa Nesnas |
2/12 - 3/12 |
| Activity: Develop a sensor-based algorithm to enable autonomous docking and undocking of the Axel Rover to the DuAxel Rover. |
| Anna Gruebler |
University of Tsukuba |
Adrian Stoica |
1/12 - 2/12 |
| Activity: Remote control of a robot in Japan via the internet by using the JPL BioSleeve and University of Tsukuba sensors for face expressions. |
| Masakazu Hirokawa |
University of Tsukuba |
Adrian Stoica |
1/12 - 2/12 |
| Activity: Remote control of a robot in Japan via the internet by using the JPL BioSleeve and University of Tsukuba sensors for face expressions. |
| Gaurav Ahuja |
SPAWAR |
Mike McHenry |
11/11 - 10/13 |
| Activity: System software development, evaluating alternative sensors, device drivers/interfaces and helping to implement new algorithms. |
| Narek Pezeshkian |
SPAWAR |
Mike McHenry |
11/11 - 10/13 |
| Activity: Electronics design for radio relays for Explosive Ordnance Disposal robots and software for their automatic deployment based on network link quality. |
| Jose Luis Peralta |
Aalto University |
Adrian Stoica |
9/11 - 3/12 |
| Activity: Stable walking algorithms for bipeds, including Idle State Stability, Limit Cycle Walking, and Regenerative Walking. |
| Koji Uchino |
Kyushu University, Japan |
Adrian Stoica |
8/11 - 9/11 |
| Activity: Perform research in vision-based recognition of humans and their activities. |
| Maria Moreno |
University of Alcala |
Adrian Stoica |
7/11 - 9/11 |
| Activity: Cognitive architectures for autonomous systems. |
| Daisuke Akita |
Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Jeff Hall |
7/11 - 10/11 |
| Activity: Planetary balloons and aerobots. |
| Yumi Iwashita |
Kyushu University |
Adrian Stoica |
4/11 - 3/13 |
| Activity: Research in vision-based recognition of humans and their activities. |
| David Swords |
Aalto University |
Adrian Stoica |
3/11 - 5/11 |
| Activity: Algorithms for navigation of mobile robots. |
| Thomas Fuchs |
Caltech Postdoc |
Larry Matthies |
3/11 - 12/11 |
| Activity: Research on terrain trafficability modeling and trafficability estimation from orbital remote sensing and rover surface sensing. |
| Kissung You |
Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST), Korea. |
Adrian Stoica |
1/11 - 1/12 |
| Activity: Research in robotic control through EMG and EEG interfacing to an operator. |
| Talita Sono |
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Adrian Stoica |
12/10 - 6/11 |
| Activity: Novel algorithms in control with biological signals. |
| Adnan Tahirovic |
Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
Adrian Stoica |
10/10 - 12/10 |
| Activity: Large-scale efficient graph search algorithms, and cost-map generation for non-uniform terrain. |
| Guido Sangiovanni |
Italian Space Agency |
Paul Backes |
8/10 - 10/10 |
| Activity: Simple, first-order aerodynamicmodels for Montgolfiere balloons. |
| Hubertus Von Bremen |
California State University Pomona |
Bob Balaram |
7/10 - 8/11 |
| Activity: Physics based surface mobility modeling and validation. |
| Brian Williams |
University of Oxford, England |
Larry Matthies |
5/10 - 5/11 |
| Activity: Vision based navigation for autonomous mobile robots. |
| Philipp Hahn |
University of Stuttgart, Germany |
Abhi Jain |
4/10 - 8/10 |
| Activity: Granular soil modeling software. |
| Yasuhiro Katayama |
JAXA |
Larry Matthies |
9/09 - 9/10 |
| Activity: Vision based planetary landing research. |
| Felix Reinhart |
CoR-Lab at Bielefeld University, Germany |
Adrian Stoica |
9/09 - 12/09 |
| Activity: Algorithms for the adaptive control of unmanned boats. |
| Goran Basic |
International Space University |
Jaret Matthews |
10/07 - 4/08 |
| Activity: Software development for the ATHLETE Smart Tool task. |
| Roland Brockers |
University of Paderborn |
Larry Matthies |
7/07 - 6/09 |
| Activity: Stereo vision performance enhancements. |
| Christine Buzzell |
Naval Undersea Warfare Center |
Terry Huntsberger |
2/07 - 6/07 |
| Activity: Software development and transfer for Naval applications. |
| Louis Everett |
University of Texas, El Paso |
Paul Backes |
9/06 - 9/07 |
| Activity: Robotics Capabilities Analysis. |
| Davide Brugali |
University of Bergamo, Italy |
Issa Nesnas |
7/06 - 8/06 |
| Activity: CLARAty software architecture development. |
| Victor Silva |
University of Dundee |
Larry Matthies |
9/05 - 9/06 |
| Activity: Vision-based integrated navigation for space exploration. |
| Robert Kozma |
University of Memphis, TN |
Homayoun Seraji |
6/05 - 9/05 |
| Activity: Investigations toward a self-organized dynamically adaptable system for guidance, navigation, and control. |
