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Torkom Pailevanian

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Biography

Torkom Pailevanian is a robotics engineer in the Robotic Actuation and Sensing group at JPL. He received his BS and MS from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked on the development of biodevices for cancer treatment and autonomous underwater robotics systems. He is currently supporting the system architecture, circuit design and firmware tasks for extreme environment robotics and ground systems testbeds for flight systems.

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Research Interests

Robotic actuator systems, instrumentation and sensing, electrical systems engineering

Publications

2024

T. S. Vaquero, G. Daddi, R. Thakker, M. Paton, A. Jasour, M. Strub, R. M. Swan, R. Royce, M. Gildner, P. Tosi, M. Veismann, P. Gavrilov, E. Marteau, J. Bowkett, D. Loret de Mola Lemus, Y. Kumar Nakka, B. Hockman, A. Orekhov, T. Hasseler, C. Leake, B. Nuernberger, P. Proenca, W. Reid, W. Talbot, N. Georgiev, T. Pailevanian, A. Archanian, E. Ambrose, J. Jasper, R. Etheredge, C. Roman, D. Levine, K. Otsu, S. Yearicks, H. Melikyan, R. Rieber, K. Carpenter, J. Nash, A. Jain, L. Shiraishi, M. Robinson, M. Travers, H. Choset, J. Burdick, A. Gardner, M. Cable, M. Ingham, and M. Ono, "EELS: Autonomous Snake-like Robot with Task and Motion Planning Capabilities for Ice World Exploration," Science Robotics, vol. 9, no. 88, 13 March 2024.
M. Ono, R. Thakker, N. Georgiev, P. Gavrilov, A. Archanian, T. Drevinskas, G. Daddi, M. Paton, H. Melikyan, T. Pailevanian, C. Lopez, E. Ambrose, B. Jones, L. Tosi, M. Gildner, B. Hockman, D. Loret de Mola Lemus, D. Pastor Moreno, T. Hasseler, Y. Kumar Nakka, E. Marteau, B. Nuernberger, M. Peticco, M. Cable, P. Proenca, M. Malaska, J. Bowkett, A. Jasour, M. Ingham, J. Nash, D. Balentine, A. Barchowsky, F. Bevreng, K. Botteon, M. Caballero, K. Carpenter, M. Chodas, A. Daca, J. Feldman, A. Gardner, A. Goddu, A. Jain, C. Jin, M. Khanum, R. Kornfeld, G. Mark, B. Morrell, J. Naish, W. Reid and R. Etheredge, "To Boldly Go Where No Robots Have Gone Before – Part 1: EELS Robot to Spearhead a New One-Shot Exploration Paradigm with In-situ Adaptation," AIAA Scitech 2024 Forum, Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 1-23, 08 January 2024.

2022

F. Mier-Hicks, A. Buscicchio, T. Pailevanian, M. Elsdon, A. Sirota, E. Aguliar, S. Brooks, and D. Levine, "Electrical Ground Support Equipment for the Sampling Caching System of the Mars 2020 Rover," 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-12, 05 March 2022.

2021

Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, et al., "NeBula: Quest for Robotic Autonomy in Challenging Environments; TEAM CoSTAR at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge," Journal of Field Robotics, 21 March 2021.

2018

R. Detry, J. Koch, T. Pailevanian, M. Garrett, D. Levine, C. Yahnker, M. Gildner, "Turbid-Water Subsea Infrastructure 3D Reconstruction with Assisted Stereo," 2018 OCEANS - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Oceans (OTO), Kobe, Japan, 2018, pp. 1-6, 28 May 2018.
J. Koch, T. Pailevanian, M. Garrett, C. Yahnker, R. Detry, D. Levine, M. Gildner, "Development of a Robotic Limb for Underwater Mobile Manipulation," 2018 OCEANS - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Oceans (OTO), Kobe, Japan, 2018, pp. 1-5, 28 May 2018.