Visiting Researchers

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.