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. | |||