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 |
Francesco Sanfedino |
Polytechnico University in Turin |
Marco Quadrelli |
11/15 - 4/16 |
Activity: Develop and simulate mathematical models for control of deformable bodies. |
Raphael Tessmer |
Technische Universität München |
Adrian Stoica |
10/15 - 4/16 |
Activity: Listen to or observe a human and then translate the human intent into instructions for various devices and robots. |
Kyongsik Yun |
Caltech |
Adrian Stoica |
9/15 - 3/16 |
Activity: Research on Brain Computer Interfaces. |
Alessandro Chiolerio |
Italian Institute of Technology |
Marco Quadrelli |
7/15 - 9/15 |
Activity: Explore collaboration opportunities with IIT on distributed robots. |
Sam Shin |
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
Adrian Stoica |
6/15 - 9/17 |
Activity: Determine efficient means to control teams of multiple robots. Languages for interaction, coordinated behaviors, group-levels of autonomy, voice control. Building of transformer-based sunlight reflector. |
Haijun Su |
Ohio State University |
Aaron Parness |
5/15 - 7/15 |
Activity: Microspine flexure analysis and design for ARM gripper. |
Farid Kendoul |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
Larry Matthies |
3/15 - 10/15 |
Activity: Reliable micro air vehicle long distance guidance and control. Design and implement new controller on our MAVs. |
Tim Oberhauser |
ETH Zuerich |
Stephan Weiss |
9/14 - 2/15 |
Activity: Improve our existing navigation software for our micro air vehicle. |
Marcus Mueller |
University of Siegen |
Roland Brockers |
9/14 - 9/15 |
Activity: Map-free visual-inertial navigation with rolling shutter cameras. Implement MSCKF pose estimation filter and evaluate the feasibility of using rolling shutter cameras for pose estimation. |
Masatsugu Otsuki |
JAXA |
Issa Nesnas |
5/14 - 3/15 |
Activity: Control position of a rover, which explores on an extreme terrain with a wire, and verify its control through numerical calculations and experiments using a rover such as AXEL. |
Shinichiro Narita |
JAXA |
Paul Backes |
3/13 - 3/14 |
Activity: Research under the JPL RTD Small Body Surface Sampler and Explorer (SmalBoSSE) task. This task is developing a prototype robot capable of mobility and sampling on small bodies. |
Narek Pezeshkian |
SPAWAR |
Mike McHenry |
9/12 - 9/14 |
Activity: Development of radio relays for Explosive Ordnance Disposal robots and software for their automatic deployment based on network link quality. |
Gaurav Ahuja |
SPAWAR |
Arturo Rankin |
7/12 - 9/17 |
Activity: System software development, evaluating alternative sensors, device drivers/interfaces and helping to implement new algorithms. |
Pawel Malczyk |
Warsaw University of Technology |
Rudra Mukherjee |
3/12 - 9/12 |
Activity: Parallel computing software implementations of computational multibody dynamics algorithms to be used for modeling articulated rigid bodies. |
Dorian Tsai |
Aalto University School of Science and Tech |
Issa Nesnas |
2/12 - 9/12 |
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 Rodriguez-Moreno |
Universidad de Alcalá |
Adrian Stoica |
7/11 - 8/15 |
Activity: Perform research on adding cognitive capabilities to autonomous robotic systems. Decision-making algorithms for robotic intelligence and path-planning. |
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 - 9/15 |
Activity: Applying vision algorithm to image processing for NASA applications. 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. |