PeRL STUDIES AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION & MAPPING FOR MOBILE ROBOTS IN A PRIORI UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS.

At a Glance

Synopsis

The PeRL team is comprised of exceptional professors, graduate students, and undergraduates, working on complex problems in autonomous navigation and mapping for mobile robots in a priori unknown environments.

Team Members

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Prof. Ryan Eustice, Ph.D.

Director of PeRL

Recipient of the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Prof. Eustice is the founder of the multidisciplinary Perceptual Robotics Laboratory. More...

Ayoung Kim

Graduate Student, ME Dept.

Ph.D. student with B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University, based on experience of mobile robot motion planning and dynamics/control of parallel manipulator, also interested in control, motion planning, probabilistic robotics.

Gaurav Pandey

Graduate Student, EE Dept.

PhD student with B-tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

Shashi Bhushan Singh

Graduate Student, NAME Dept.

PhD student with B.Tech. in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and MA in Mathematics from University of Hawaii, Manoa. He is interested in autonomous underwater vehicles.

Andrew Richardson

Undergraduate, EE Dept.

Undergraduate senior in EECS with an interest in mobile robotics and control. Andrew is also the President of the 2007-2008 UMich Autonomous Surface Vehicle Team.

Past Lab Members

Hunter Brown

Graduate Student, NAME Dept.

Ph.D. student with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and an M.S. in Ocean Engineering back in academia after a stint in the industry. His interests are in machine vision, perception, and computational geometry.