BIPED ROBOTICS LAB@MICHIGAN

Gokul Prabhakaran is a Master's student in Robotics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (minor in Computer Science) from National University of Singapore, Singapore. His current research interests include controls of bipedal robots, perception and SLAM.

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Email: gok{at}umich.edu

Aayushi Shrivastava is a Master’s student in Robotics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Her current research interests include controller design and motion planning of Legged Robots.

 

Email: aayushis{at}umich.edu

Qi Dai is a Master’s student in Robotics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. Her current research interests include computer vision and perception.

 

Email: qidai{at}umich.edu

(Ray) Rui Chen is a Master’s student in Robotics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Automation, Robotics Engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 2021. His current research interests include SLAM, motion planning, multi-agent collaboration, as well as machine learning. His favorite sport is tennis and he also likes travelling.

 

Email: ruiche{at}umich.edu

Dongmyeong Lee is a Master’s student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea. His current research interests include sensor fusion, computer vision, and perception.

 

Email: domlee{at}umich.edu

Jinze   Liu  is   a   Master's   student   in   Electrical   and   Computer   Engineering   at   the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Bachelor's Degrees in Computer Engineering   from   the University   of   Michigan,   Ann   Arbor   and   Electrical   and Computer   Engineering   from   Shanghai   Jiaotong   University,   China.   His   current research interests include motion planning and machine learning.

 

Email: jzliu{at}umich.edu

Jennifer Humanchuk is a Master's student in Robotics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Humanitarian Engineering from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. Her current research interests are in controls and hardware implementation of legged locomotion models.

 

Email: jenhuman{at}umich.edu

Jianyang Tang is a Master's student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Engineering Sciences from Michigan State University. His current research interests include object detection, pose estimation, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(SLAM) and motion planning.

 

Email: tangjoe{at}umich.edu

Peter Wrobel is a Master's student in Robotics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is interested in machine-human collaboration, path-planning, and perception. He hopes one day to be a cyborg.

 

Email: pjwrobel{at}umich.edu

Yingwen Tan is a Master’s student in Signal & Image Processing and Machine Learning at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Bachelor's Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Electrical and Computer Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her current research interests include topological planning and routing algorithm for topological maps.

 

Email: tywwyt{at}umich.edu

Minzhe graduated with a Master’s degree in Robotics from the University of Michigan in 2021. Her current interests include motion planning, trajectory optimization and mapping. She works at Magna electronics as an algorithm engineer.

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Email: minzlee{at}umich.edu

Dianhao Chen is a Master's student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Automation from Beijing Institute of Technology, China. His current research interests include controls and experiments for bipedal locomotion.

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Email: chendh{at}umich.edu

Isabel is a Master's student in Electrical and Computer Engineering and she graduated in 2019 with a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering both at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her current research interests include control theory, mapping, and image processing algorithms.

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Email: igtaylor{at}umich.edu

Xu Shang is a Master's student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His current research interests include controls and comparison between Simulation & Experiments for bipedal locomotion.

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Email: shangxu{at}umich.edu

Hengxu You is a Master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His current research interests include object detection and pose estimation.

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Email: hengxuy{at}umich.edu

Xin Chen is a Master’s student in Robotics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Automation from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her current research interests include computer vision, perception, and controls.

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Email: xinccccc{at}umich.edu

Shoutian Wang is a Master's student in the Robotics track of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Automation from Beijing Institute of Technology, China. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(SLAM), and artificial intelligence. He is interested and enthusiastic to fix any problems encountered in research.

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Email: shoutian{at}umich.edu

Chenxi Feng is a Master's student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently working on the perception system of Cassie Blue. His research interests include Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and motion planning.

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Email: chenxif{at}umich.edu

Santoshi Kulkarni is a Master's student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from PES University, India. Her current research interests include trajectory optimization for the sit-to-stand motion of exoskeleton.

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Email: skulk{at}umich.edu

Madhav Achar graduated with a Master’s degree in Robotics from the University of Michigan in 2020. His technical interests include working with people across all levels of the stack (perception, planning, and control) to design and implement robotic systems. He works at Quantum Signal AI as a robotics engineer.

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Email: achar{at}umich.edu

Kaustav graduated with a Master's Degree in Robotics from the University of Michigan in 2020, and a Bachelor's in Technology in Mechanical Engineering in 2018 from VIT University. His research lies in the interaction of robots and their environment to help them perceive and autonomously navigate through unstructured terrains. At the Biped Lab, he had worked on object detection and pose estimation using deep learning on LiDARs as a part of the perception team. He will be joining the University of Southern California for his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Fall 2020. 

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Email:  vatsuak{at}umich.edu

website: vatbot.webnode.com