Bottom row (left to right): Luis Bill-Clark, Michael Saenz, Luigi Destefanis Gallo, Eduardo Lopez, Brittany Parker, Danny Situ, Harshavardhan Mylapilli, Riley Avron, Vanesa Gomez Gonzalez, Sandra Fang, Christian Howard, Eric Gorlin, Lorenia Jimenez-Miramontes, Kalind Carpenter.
Middle Row (left to right): Federico Salvioli, Enrico Ferrentino, Prerak Patel, Lexi Schaffer, Stephen Yortsos, Alex Shie, Tyler Hilgendorf, Evan Hilgemann, Jungsoo Park, Adam Ryason, Mayank Baranwal, Michelle Liu, Kun Ho Kim, Simon Kalouche.
Top Row (left to right): Jorge Alfredo Alvarez Guzman, Christian Stewart, Jonathan King, Dennis Wai, Russell Smith, Michael Williamson, Donald Ruffatto, Stephen Decker, Kearney Lackas, J. Emry Kucko, Kevin Witkoe, Stephen Goodwin, Miguel Rodriguez, Alex Florio.
Not pictured: Katherine Acord, Cyrus Batino, Kyle Berger, James Burdick, Clayton Campbell, Jack Craft, Stephanie Debats, Emma Dodd, Schuyler Eldridge, Joshua Fromm, Brayden Hollis, Bradley Holschuh, Matthew Jones, Nikhil Lele, Andrew Liang, Jeffrey Linahan, Rowland O’Flaherty, Mimi Parker, Eduardo Rojas, Rebecca Smith, Edouard Yreux.
| Name | Home Institution | Program | Point of Contact | Task Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acord, Katherine (Katie) | UC Davis | CURE | Younse, Paulo | Sample Tube Sealing |
| Activity: Design and Testing of a Sample Container to Preserve Rock Cores for Mars Sample Return | ||||
| Alvarez Guzman, Jorge | Politecnico di Milano, Italy | JVSRP | Quadrelli, Marco | Space Vehicles |
| Activity: Dynamics, Control & Simulation of Planetary Vehicles | ||||
| Avron, Riley | Purdue Univ, IN | JPLSIP | Heverly, Matthew | Mars Science Laboratory |
| Activity: Controller for the Earth based MSL test rover | ||||
| Bach, Madlenne | Univ of Southern California | JVSRP | Stoica, Adrian | Brain-computer interfaces |
| Activity: New brain computer interfaces. She is designing a system that takes data from conventional EEG points and determines data at arbitrary points in between, with the purpose of determining trade-offs in sensor placement. | ||||
| Baranwal, Mayank | Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | JPLYIP | Quadrelli, Marco | Space Mission Applications |
| Activity: Modeling, Simulation & Control of Planetary Vehicles | ||||
| Batino, Cyrus | Univ of Southern California | JPLSIP | Heverly, Matthew | Mars Science Laboratory |
| Activity: Development of software tools to support MSL rover planner uplink & downlink analysis | ||||
| Berger, Kyle | Univ of Colorado | NSTRF | Mukherjee, Rudra | Space Vehicle Landing Predictions |
| Activity: Prediction of Regolith Ejection during Extraterrestrial Landings | ||||
| Bill-Clark, Luis | San Francisco State Univ, CA | JPLSIP | Myint, Steven | SEAS Configuration |
| Activity: Will be working on "Teleoperation of Simulated Lunar Rovers." This will involve programming new user interfaces for DARTS simulations. | ||||
| Bruno, Alessandro | Italy - Scuola Superiore | JVSRP | Quadrelli, Marco | Space Vehicles |
| Activity: Dynamics, Control & Simulation of Planetary Vehicles | ||||
| Burdick, James | Univ of California, Los Angeles | JPLSIP | Okon, Avi | SC Sampling System |
| Activity: Mars Surface Mission - Sample Acquisition Tool Percussion Mechanism Study | ||||
| Campbell, Clayton | Saddleback College, CA | Growth Sector | Assad, Chris | BioElectirc Sensor |
| Activity: Natural Robot Control Interfaces Using Wearable Bio-Sensors | ||||
| Carpenter, Kalind | California State Univ, Los Angeles | JPLSIP | Parness, Aaron | Robotic Recon(2) |
| Activity: Micro Ground Vehicle: Will develop micro ground vehicles with the ability to climb vertical buildings and traverse curbs and stairs. | ||||
| Chan, Timothy | Univ of California, Los Angeles | JVSRP | Matthies, Larry | RCTA |
| Activity: Automated camera calibration. Pot support RCTA. | ||||
| Chawla, Sidakpreet | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | JVSRP | Helmick, Daniel | Small Body Sampler |
| Activity: SmalBoSSE | ||||
| Craft, Jack | Ohio State Univ | SURF | Mukherjee, Rudra | Adaptive Modular And Multi-Terrain Mobility Planner |
| Activity: The student will develop simulation software for vehicle dynamics and may assist in controls software development for robotic vehicle testing. | ||||
| Debats, Stephanie | Princeton Univ, NJ | JPLSIP | Fuchs, Thomas | Internships |
| Activity: Combining Crowdsourced Mapping of African Croplands with Pattern Recognition to Improve Agricultural Landcover Maps | ||||
| Decker, Stephen | Washington Univ | JPLSIP | Yen, Jeng | Mars Science Laboratory |
| Activity: Mars Science Laboratory Rover Simulation | ||||
| Destefanis Gallo, Luigi | Politecnico di Milano, Italy | JVSRP | Helmick, Daniel | Small Body Sampler |
| Activity: SmalBOSSE 3 | ||||
| Dodd, Emma | Brown Univ, RI | CURE | Younse, Paulo | Sample Tube Sealing |
| Activity: The purpose of the first part of the project is to design and test sample tube sealing methods that could act as prototypes for the Mars core tubes, contain samples collected by a drill on the end of a robotic arm, and preserve the samples both on Mars and during the return trip back to Earth. The purpose of the second part of the project project is to better understand the effect of the high-G landing on the samples and set limits on landing system design specification. The effect of the high gravity landing on the core samples is not well understood. | ||||
| Eldridge, Schuyler | Boston Univ, MA | NSTRF | Stoica, Adrian | Bio-Inspired Hardware |
| Activity: Biologically-inspired Hardware for Land/Aerial Robots | ||||
| Fang, Yuqian (Sandra) | California Institute of Technology | SURF | Leichty, John | Planetary Instrument |
| Activity: Sensor suite development for BRUIE (Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration). | ||||
| Ferrentino, Enrico | Politecnico di Milano, Italy | JVSRP | Nesnas, Issa | Extreme Terrain |
| Activity: Developing control algorithms for motion planning of a tethered extreme terrain rover. | ||||
| Florio, Alex | Politecnico di Milano, Italy | JVSRP | Matthies, Larry | IUG Vehicle |
| Activity: Self-supervised learning of trafficability models | ||||
| Fromm, Joshua | California Institute of Technology | JVSRP | Assad, Chris | BioElectric Sensor |
| Activity: Natural Robot Control Interfaces Using Wearable Bio-Sensors | ||||
| Gomez Gonzalez, Vanesa |
France - International Space Univ | ISU | Bellutta, Paolo | Mars Science Laboratory |
| Activity: MSL Scarecrow Controller | ||||
| Goodwin, Steven | Univ of Idaho | Space Grant | Mukherjee, Rudra | Adaptive Modular And Multi-Terrain Mobility Planner |
| Activity: Will assist in developing mechanical prototypes of various robotic mobility and manipulation concepts. | ||||
| Gorlin, Eric | California Institute of Technology | SURF | Brockers, Roland | MAST |
| Activity: Autonomous quadrotor roof-top landing | ||||
| Hilgemann, Evan | Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln | JPLYIP | Parness, Aaron | Gecko Gripper |
| Activity: Orbital Debris Capture Head: working on creating gecko adhesive gripping mechanisms for grappling satellites as part of the Darpa Phoenix program. | ||||
| Hilgendorf, Tyler | Texas A&M Univ | JPLSIP | Parness, Aaron | Gecko Gripper |
| Activity: Will be characterizing gecko adhesive pads in environmental conditions similar to those near satellites in Geostationary Orbit. | ||||
| Hollis, Brayden | Whitworth Univ, WA | MUST | Brockers, Roland | MAST |
| Activity: Autonomous quadrotor safety system | ||||
| Holschuh, Bradley | MIT, MA | NSTRF | Assad, Chris | MCP Space Suits |
| Activity: Development and Testing of Compression Technologies Using Advanced Materials for Mechanical Counter-Pressure Planetary Exploration Suits | ||||
| Howard, Christian | Univ of Illinois - Urbana Champaign | USRP- Summer |
Brockers, Roland | MAST |
| Activity: Autonomous quadrotor roof-top landing | ||||
| Jimenez-Miramontes, Lorenia |
Santa Ana College, CA | Growth Sector | Nesnas, Issa | Extreme Terrain |
| Activity: Designing and fabricating camera dust barriers; developing test plans and remotely operating an extreme terrain tethered rover. | ||||
| Jones, Matthew | Virginia Polytech Institute & State Univ | JPLSIP | Wolf, Michael | Maritime Robotics |
| Activity: Developing a simulation environment for testing USV motion planning algorithms, including hazard avoidance and the "COLREGS" rules of the road. | ||||
| Kalouche, Simon | Ohio State Univ | JPLSIP | Parness, Aaron | IRIS |
| Activity: Flat gecko-adhesive climbing robot | ||||
| Kim, Kun ho | California Institute of Technology | JPLYIP | Nesnas, Issa | A Minimalistic |
| Activity: Developing analytical models and characterizing motion profiles for a flywheel hopping and tumbling rover for microgravity environments. | ||||
| King, Jonathan | Ohio State Univ | JPLSIP | Parness, Aaron | IRIS |
| Activity: Microgravity Drill Project | ||||
| Kroos, Philipp | Univ of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Germany | JVSRP | Brockers, Roland | MAST |
| Activity: Develop and implement a smart camera for embedded image processing on a quadrotor UAV platform | ||||
| Kucko, Joshua | Univ of South Florida | MUST | Frost, Matthew | Lunar Surface Mobility |
| Activity: ATHLETE Rover | ||||
| Lackas, Kearney | Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln | JPLSIP | Kennedy, Brett | SC Sampling System |
| Activity: Support the field test facility rover and associated equipment for Mars Surf Mission 2020 - POP | ||||
| Lele, Nikhil | Stanford Univ, CA | JPLSIP | Mukherjee, Rudra | MAST |
| Activity: Tasks dealing with modeling of robotic mobility and manipulation on terrestrial and extra-terrestrial terrains. These tasks involve modeling the dynamics of robotic systems examples of which include legged robotic systems, articulated robotic arms, interactions with granular terrain and grass among others. | ||||
| Liang, Andrew | California Institute of Technology | JPLSIP | Wolf, Michael | Maritime Robotics |
| Activity: Developing and testing computer vision perception algorithms to detect and classify surface boats in camera images, to provide better situational awareness for a USV. | ||||
| Linahan, Jeffrey | Villanova Univ, PA | JVSRP | Jain, Abhi | Large Scale internal Coordinate |
| Activity: The summer project will focus in identifying the design and architecture changes in ROAMS to meet the RAMS needs. It will also begin the adaptation and robot platform model development activities. | ||||
| Liu, Michelle | Harvey Mudd College, CA | JPLSIP | Yen, Jeng | Mars Science Laboratory |
| Activity: Mars Science Laboratory Rover Simulation | ||||
| Lopez, Eduardo "Eddie" | California State Univ, San Bernardino | JVSRP | Stoica, Adrian | Multi-robot control |
| Activity: Development of technologies and scenarios for multi-robot control, in particular control of teams of quadrotors | ||||
| Mylapilli, Harshavardhan | Univ of Southern California | JPLYIP | Jain, Abhi | Large Scale internal Coordinate |
| Activity: Modeling of Non-Smooth Dynamics: To prototype and implement advanced dynamics modeling algorithms available in the published literature for use in JPL simulation tools. | ||||
| O'Flaherty, Rowland | Georgia Institute of Technology | JPLSIP | Backes, Paul | SC Sampling System |
| Activity: Robotic sample tube transfer for caching. | ||||
| Park, Jungsoo | California Institute of Technology | SURF | Nayar, Hari | Robotic PIP |
| Activity: ATHLETE tool development | ||||
| Parker, Brittany | California State Univ, Fullerton | Growth Sector | Padgett, Curtis | Blue Devil |
| Activity: Collaborative brain-computer interfaces for improved detection of activities in video imagery | ||||
| Parker, Mimi | Los Angeles City College, CA | CURE | Younse, Paulo | Sample Tube Sealing |
| Activity: Design and Testing of a Sample Container to Preserve Rock Cores for Mars Sample Return | ||||
| Patel, Prerak | Carnegie Mellon Univ, PA | JPLYIP | Matthies, Larry | Robotics Collaborative |
| Activity: Real-time vision on multi-core processor | ||||
| Picone, Gabriele Luciano | Politecnico di Milano, Italy | JVSRP | Kennedy, Brett | RoboSimian |
| Activity: The student will primarily support the assembly and testing of the RoboSimian robot. Work will include the assembly and modification of parts, design and fabrication of ground support equipment, development of test procedures, and execution of tests. | ||||
| Raffaele, Emanuele | Italy - Scuola Superiore | JVSRP | Quadrelli, Marco | Space Vehicles |
| Activity: Dynamics, Control & Simulation of Planetary Vehicles | ||||
| Rodriguez, Miguel | California State Polytechnic Univ | JPLSIP | Quadrelli, Marco | Large Scale internal Coordinate |
| Activity: Modeling & Simulation of Planetary Space Platforms | ||||
| Rojas, Eduardo | California State Univ, Fullerton | Growth Sector | Wolf, Michael | Maritime Robotics |
| Activity: Developing tools to enable more efficient offline analysis of comptuer vision algorithm performance. | ||||
| Roveda, Loris | Politecnico di Milano, Italy | JVSRP | Backes, Paul | Mars 2020 Mission |
| Activity: Support writing robotic arm and sampling tool control software for technology development to compare alternative approaches to coring for the Mars 2020 mission. Only non-ITAR research software will be used. | ||||
| Ruffatto, Donald | Illinois Institute of Technology | NSTRF | Parness, Aaron | Robotic Attachment Mechanisms |
| Activity: Design of Electrostatic Directional Dry Adhesives for Robotic Attachment Mechanisms | ||||
| Ryason, Adam | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY | JPLSIP | Jain, Abhi | Large Scale internal Coordinate |
| Activity: Modeling & Simulation of Planetary Space Platforms | ||||
| Saenz, Michael | Saddleback College, CA | Growth Sector | Nesnas, Issa | Extreme Terrain |
| Activity: Developing test plans and remotely operating an extreme terrain tethered rover. | ||||
| Salvioli, Federico | Politecnico di Milano, Italy | JVSRP | Wolf, Michael | BioSleeve Robot Control |
| Activity: Developing a natural robot control interface using wearable bio-sensors | ||||
| Schaffer, Lexi | California State Univ - Fullerton | Growth Sector | Kulczycki, Eric | Covert Operation of ACTUV |
| Activity: Mechanical Design for sensing systems on unmanned boats | ||||
| Shankar, Krishna | California Institute of Technology | JVSRP | Reid, Jason | Axel Rover |
| Activity: online path planning for the axel rover | ||||
| Shie, Alex | Carnegie Mellon Univ, PA | JPLGF | Helmick, Daniel | Small Body Sampler |
| Activity: SmalBoSSE | ||||
| Shinzaki, Makoto | Kyushu Univ, Japan | JVSRP | Stoica, Adrian | Shadow biometrics |
| Activity: Use quadrotors to take imagery of people (with shadows) walking and doing various activities. | ||||
| Situ, Danny | California State Univ, Fullerton | Growth Sector | Wolf, Michael | BioSleeve Robot Control |
| Activity: Developing a natural robot control interface using wearable bio-sensors | ||||
| Smith, Rebecca (Becky) | Arizona State Univ | CURE | Younse, Paulo | Sample Tube Sealing |
| Activity: Design and Testing of a Sample Container to Preserve Rock Cores for Mars Sample Return | ||||
| Smith, Russell | California Institute of Technology | JPLSIP | Backes, Paul | Sampling Chain (2) |
| Activity: Sampling System | ||||
| Stewart, Christian | Harvard-Westlake High School, CA | High School | Matthies, Larry | MAST |
| Activity: Cell phone processor for micro air vehicles: Conduct runtime benchmarking of simple test programs on the new processor board, then port existing autonomous navigation software to this board. | ||||
| Wai, Dennis | Univ of California, Berkeley | JPLSIP | Backes, Paul | Auto Robotic Manipulation |
| Activity: Sampling System | ||||
| Williamson, Michael | California Institute of Technology | JPLSIP | Backes, Paul | Sampling Chain (2) |
| Activity: Sampling System | ||||
| Witkoe, Kevin | Idaho Univ | JPLSIP | Frost, Matthew | Lunar Surface Mobility |
| Activity: ATHLETE Rover | ||||
| Yortsos, Stephen | Univ of Southern California | JPLSIP | Yen, Jeng | Mars Science Laboratory |
| Activity: Mars Science Laboratory Rover Simulation | ||||
| Yreux, Edouard Marc Henry |
Univ of California, Los Angeles | JPLGF | Mukherjee, Rudra | Sampling Chain (4) |
| Activity: Work on basic science and technology for modeling interaction of wheels and legs with deformable terrain using COTS tools or tools from his advisor's tools. FN will have access to open source tools used at JPL. | ||||