Research
NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge
Lead programmer for WVU team that won over $850,000 in the NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge. Developed mission planning, motion planning, task execution, and health and status management software for award winning robot Cataglyphis.
Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky, © CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Robotic Pollination
Developed mission and task planning capabilities for BrambleBee, first of its kind autonomous precision pollination robot.
Mars Rover Fast Traverse
Led robotic system development and supported terrain-aware traversal planning and localization capability development.
Decision-Making for Unmodeled Situations
Researching decision-making under uncertainty for situations where there are not only distributions of uncertainty, but the robot’s assumptions about the nature of those distributions may be incorrect or incomplete. Working towards more generalizable real-world robot autonomy.
Other Research
Simulation to Flight 1 (STF-1) CubeSat Mission
Developed the flight software for GNSS navigation experiment on West Virginia’s first spacecraft, in collaboration with NASA’s IV&V Program.
Micro-Probes Propelled by Atmospheric Electricity
Explored using electrically charged silk strings to propel small airborne probes for planetary exploration as part of a NASA NIAC funded project.
Mine Safety Inspection Robot
Supported system integration, electrical system design, and autonomy capabilities for research robot used for mine safety inspection.