Back row (left to right): Jeffrey Linahan, Thomas Voden (he's standing just behind & between Linahan and Tsotsos), Konstantine Tsotsos, Justin Koch, Solomon Chang, Kevin Burg, Paul Johnson, Donald Ruffatto, Ross Allen, Ryan Houlihan, Alessandro Balossino, Isaac Kim, Charles Galey, Kevin Witkoe, Jeremy Laflin, Joseph Bartels, David Connolly.
Front Row (left to right): Esther Lee, Tam Nguyen, Archan Luhar, Grace Tilton, Dorian Tsai, Luca Randazzo, Nitish Thatte, Phillip Daniel, Alberto Pignato, Billy Gallagher, Rory Shevin, Eduardo Almeida, Randolph Voorhies.
Not pictured: Riley Avron, Luis Bill-Clark, Pronoy Biswas, Diego Capporale,Thimal De Alwis, Matthew Dughi, Jeffrey Edlund, Joshua Fromm, Nikola Georgiev, Hima Gudipati, Kristen Holtz, Ryan Houlihan, Yifei Huang, Paul Johnson, Brandon Jones, Justin Koch, Donald Ruffatto, Krishna Shankar, Sean Sharma, Melissa Tanner
| Name | Home Institution | Program | Point of Contact | Task Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riley Avron | Purdue University | JPL Summer Space Grant Program | Matthew Heverly | Scarecrow Controller MSL |
| Activity: Characterized and tested limb mounted F/T sensors & created a motor/joint testbed. | ||||
| Joseph Bartels | Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln | JPL Summer Space Grant Program | Frost/McQuinn | Lunar Surface Mobility |
| Activity: Improved the design of the counter rotating auger. Designed electronics for geophone soft regolith anchor. | ||||
| Luis Bill-Clark | Caltech | Caltech SURF | Michael Wolfe | Bioelectric Sensor |
| Activity: Assisted in the hardware development, software programming, and testing of JPLs "BioSleeve." | ||||
| Pronoy Biswas | CMU | Space Grant | Hari Nayar | Safe & Precise EDL |
| Activity: Worked on lander vision system test and evaluation under MTP LVS project. | ||||
| Kevin Burg | Carnegie Mellon University | JPL Summer Space Grant Program | Michael McHenry | Aerial Processing |
| Activity: Developed soil sampling device for Axel. | ||||
| Diego Capporale | Caltech | Caltech SURF | Issa Nesnas | Axel |
| Activity: Analyzed different designs that would enable Ackerman steering for the DuAxel rover. | ||||
| Solomon Chang | San Marino High School | Caltech SURF | Jeng Yen | Phase E IPE Surface |
| Activity: Developed and demonstrated high fidelity simulation method for MSL mission. | ||||
| David Connolly | Boise State University | JPL Summer Space Grant Program | Chris McQuin | Lunar Surface Mobility |
| Activity: Designed new prototype anchors for various environments ie asteroids & add deployable geophones to the existing auger anchor prototypes. | ||||
| Phillip Daniel | MIT | SURF | Aaron Parness | Robot Reconnaissance |
| Activity: Intern worked on gripping mechanisms that use gecko-inspired adhesives. | ||||
| Thimal De Alwis | Caltech | Caltech Workstudy | Paulo Younse | Sample Tube Sealing |
| Activity: Supported design, analysis, build, and test of various sample sealing techniques applicable to sample tube sealing for a Mars Sample Return mission. | ||||
| Matthew Dughi | Caltech | JPL Summer Internship Program | Bob Balaram | Real-Time High Fidelity |
| Activity: Development of an autonomous HMMV vehicle model using the ROAMS rover simulation software. | ||||
| Jeffrey Edlund | Caltech | Caltech SURF | Issa Nesnas | Axel |
| Activity: Developed soil sampling device for Axel. | ||||
| Joshua Fromm | MIT | JPL Summer Space Grant Program | Michael Wolfe | Bioelectric Sensor |
| Activity: Assisted in the hardware development, software programming, and testing of JPLs "BioSleeve." | ||||
| Charles Galey | Univ. Michigan | JPL Summer Internship Program | Eric Kulczycki | MSR-L Orbital Sample |
| Activity: Intern helped in the design of enabling technology for the Mars Sample Return mission. This involved designing hardware and mechanisms, prototyping, and testing. | ||||
| William (Billy) Gallagher | Georgia Tech | JPL Summer Space Grant Program | Paul Backes | Small Body Sampling |
| Activity: Designed and built passive comet sampling tool. | ||||
| Nikola Z. Georgiev | Caltech | Caltech SURF | Issa Nesnas | Axel |
| Activity: Designed and implemented a multi-sample scooping and caching device that could be integrated into Axel's science bays. | ||||
| Hima Gudipati | Caltech | Caltech SURF | Issa Nesnas | Axel |
| Activity: Designed and implemented based on COTS parts a percussive scooping device that was demonstrated on a ice/soil mixture. | ||||
| Kristen Holtz | Caltech | Caltech SURF | Issa Nesnas | Axel |
| Activity: Worked to design, analyze and build a pneumatic-based sampling and caching device for the Axel rover. | ||||
| Ryan Houlihan | Temple University | JPL Summer Space Grant Proram | Rudra Mukherjee | Terrain ontology modeling |
| Activity: Granular Media Marketing and Software Development. | ||||
| Yifei Huang | Caltech | Caltech SURF | Issa Nesnas | Axel |
| Activity: Worked to design, analyze and build a pneumatic-based sampling and caching device for the Axel rover. | ||||
| Paul Johnson | Univ. North Dakota | JPL Summer Space Grant Program | Dimitri Zarzhitsky | Extreme Terrain |
| Activity: Characterized bandwidth, latency, and range of COTS 802.11g/n USB WiFi adapters using the embedded Linux OS on the Axel extreme terrain rover. | ||||
| Brandon Jones | Cornell | JPL Summer Internship Program | Curtis Padgett | Blue Devil |
| Activity: We are developing automated mapping routines from aerial imagery to support navigation. The project involves the fully automated generation of navigation landmarks from aerial imagery. This involves detection of landmarks, derivation of their position using onboard instruments or telemetry and providing sufficient context for reacquisition in new imagery. | ||||
| Isaac Kim | Caltech | JPL Summer Space Grant Program | Rudra Mukherjee | Terrain ontology modeling |
| Activity: Granular Media Marketing and Software Development. | ||||
| Jonathan King | Ohio State Univ. | Caltech SURF | Aaron Parness | Gripping Foot Mech |
| Activity: Intern continued his work on building a coring drill that interfaces with the microspine gripper. | ||||
| Justin Koch | Caltech | Caltech SURF | John Leichty | Lunar Surface Mobil |
| Activity: Designed a motor driver "bottonbox" and tested apparatus, and used it to characterize torque sensing in robotic actuators. | ||||
| Jeremy Laflin | RPI | JPL Summer Space Grant Program | Rudra Mukherjee | Terrain ontology modeling |
| Activity: Granular Media Marketing and Software Development. | ||||
| Esther Lee | Rutgers University | JPL Summer Space Grant Program | Aaron Parness | Robot Reconnaissance |
| Activity: Intern worked on tail designs for bracing that can be used to mount curbs and climb vertical walls. | ||||
| Archan Luhar | Caltech | Caltech SURF | John Leighty | Icy Worlds |
| Activity: Assisted with design and fabrication of an aerial photography platform for Alaskan lake survey. Performed data analysis of sample images to identify methane seeps. | ||||
| Sheila Murthy | Caltech | Caltech SURF | Issa Nesnas | Axel |
| Activity: Studied anchor designs for the Axel's central and conducted a set of experiments. | ||||
| Donald Ruffatto | Illinois Institute of Technology | NASA Space Tech Fellow | Aaron Parness | Adhesive |
| Activity: The student worked on hybrid electrostatic/gecko adhesives and developed a test setup for quantitative data acquisition at cold temperatures (-90C). | ||||
| Krishna Shankar | Caltech | Caltech SURF | Issa Nesnas | Axel |
| Activity: Developed a control strategy that would enable motion planning with tether management. | ||||
| Sean Sharma | Santa Monica | Space Grant | Curtis Padgett | Blue Devil |
| Activity: Testing on Blue Devil. | ||||
| Rory Shevin | Caltech | Space Grant | Paul Backes | Small Body Sampling |
| Activity: Designed and built passive comet sampling tool. | ||||
| Melissa Tanner | Caltech | Caltech SURF | Issa Nesnas | Axel |
| Activity: For the ONR Sensor Fusion task, developed a multi-sensor data collection system, performed software development, performed perception system integration on board a SPAWAR vehicle, and performed data collections and field testing. | ||||
| Nitish Thatte | CMU/Rutgers | Summer Internship Program | Aaron Parness | Gripping Foot Mechanism |
| Activity: Prototype sensing methods for existing microspine grippers. | ||||
| Grace Tilton | RPI | JPL Summer Space Grant Program | Bob Balaram | DIO LSOS Configuration |
| Activity: Development of an autonomous HMMV vehicle model using the ROAMS rover simulation software. | ||||
| Konstantine Tsotsos | USC | JPL Year Round Internship program | Roland Brockers | Quadrotor ISR |
| Activity: Support algorithum development for state estimation for UAV operation. | ||||
| Rand Voorhies | UCLA | JPL Summer Internship Program | Roland Brockers | Quadrotor ISR |
| Activity: System inegration for UAV obstacle avoidance. | ||||
| Kevin Witkoe | Idaho University | JPL Summer Space Grant Program | Aaron Parness | Gripping Foot Mech |
| Activity: Worked on prototype sensors for the LEMUR robot and assisted in climbing experiments. | ||||