Nicolas Ochoa-Lleras
2013 - 2021
During his time with the group, he developed a state-of-the-art Tractor Driving Simulator.
Seth Tau
2017 - 2021
During his time with the group, he received the SMART Scholarship in 2019 and worked with the U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) with the goal of predicting high-speed off-road mobility of a given vehicle in a variety of terrains and comparing the effects of different levels of vehicle automation on vehicle mobility.
Faisal Katibi
2019 - 2021
During his time with the group, he did work
Karl Koederitz
2019 - 2021
During his time with the group, he specializing in database-mediated control systems with application to tractor-trailers
Mohamed Wahba
2014 - 2020
During his time with the group, he explored the effect of utilizing connected vehicle information to reduce the fuel consumption of heavy duty trucks as part of the ARPA-E NEXTCAR program. His key effortss were in the areas of data collection and model validation.
Chris Monaco
2015 - 2020
During his time with the group, he worked on RADAR- and SONAR-based ego-motion estimation to aid the localization of autonomous vehicles in challenging environments.
Taylor Baum
2016 - 2020
During her time with the group, she developed algorithms and methodologies behind obstacle detection in order to further progress in the field of autonomous vehicle safety.
Varun Aggarwal
2018 - 2020
During his time with the group, he developed mounts for collecting traffic videos and overlapping lane views from moving vehilces.
Nae-Rong Chang
2018 - 2020
During her time with the group, she focused on the robotic wheelchair project with the mission to complete joystick prediction system for the power wheelchair. She worked on optimizing pattern decision algorithm and finding the correlation between wheelchair spacital coordination and joystick inputs.
Alex Dean
2018 - 2020
During his time with the group, he studied the effects of latency on achievable performance in Autonomous, human-operated, and teleoperated vehicles
Kevin Kuo
2018 - 2020
During his time with the group, he worked on classification and data collection of forearm Electromyography (EMG) signals in order to map it to joystick control for a robotic wheelchair.
Austin Learn
2018 - 2020
During her time with the group, she worked as a summer internship assisting in the fabrication of new robotic systems. He was an active member of the Air Force ROTC and president of the Aerospace Studies Student Organization (ASSO).
Rajvi Shah
2018 - 2020
During her time with the group, she developed an algorithm for automatically backing a tractor-trailer using infrastruture-based sensing.
Emilio Olay
2019 - 2020
During his time with the group, he developed open-source hardware for driving simulators.
Nilanshu Patwa
2019 - 2020
During his time with the group, he assisted in the development of visualization tools for open-source driving simulators
Robert "Bobby" Leary
2011 - 2019
During his time with the group, he developed a map-based vehicle pose estimator capable of centimeter-level localization, an SQL database to store terabytes of mapping data, and a photo-realistic driving simulator.
Guangwei Zhou
2017 - 2019
During his time with the group, he did work
Kelilah Wolkowicz
2012 - 2018
During her time with the group, she focused on the system design and control of a robotic wheelchair for ALS patients. She also helped develop and instruct a junior-level mechanical engineering design course.
Nurali Virani
2013 - 2018
During his time with the group, he worked on Dynamic Data-Driven Machine Perception and Learning and dynamic path planning, multi-target tracking, and learning by demonstration algorithms.
Veronica Gruning
2015 - 2018
During her time with the group, she developed time-optimal trajectory predictions for high-speed off-road autonomous vehicles.
Katie Blundi
2016 - 2018
During her time with the group, she assisted with the design and control analysis of joysticks of a robotic wheelchair designed for ALS patients. She also assisted with the design and fabrication of the NEUP insertion arm used in nuclear casks.
Jennifer Bracken
2016 - 2018
During her time with the group, she researched the design of a robot to inspect nuclear storage casks.
Karan Shah
2016 - 2018
During his time with the group, he worked on a Robotic Dry Cask Inspection project.
Ishana Shekhawat
2016 - 2018
During her time with the group, she worked on on extracting road shoulder data from highway scans.
Yifeng Shi
2016 - 2018
During his time with the group, he developed a rapidly randomized tree planning algorithm for a mobile robot.
Stefan Topper
2016 - 2018
During his time with the group, he During his time with the group, Stefan worked on the NSF Virtual Reality Driving Simulator
Ian VanSant
2016 - 2018
During his time with the group, he During his time with the group, Ian worked on the design, control, and sensor packaging for a robotic dry cask inspection project.
Krishna Varadarajan
2016 - 2018
During his time with the group, he worked on ARPA-E's NEXTCAR project in the domain of powertrain modeling, control, and optimization for connected trucks.
Chris Velez
2016 - 2018
During his time with the group, he worked on the design and fabrication of robotic inspection systems.
Ting Xu
2016 - 2018
During her time with the group, she developed a centralized cooperative driving system for connected vehicles at a non-signalized intersection
Joe Chobot
2017 - 2018
During his time with the group, he worked on the electrical hardware and software for an autonomous wheelchair.
Nicolas "Nick" Dow
2017 - 2018
During his time with the group, he researched assessing risk compensation in real and virtual man-machine systems for a NSF-funded project.
Ishan Gosain
2017 - 2018
During his time with the group, he researched using photogrammetry to bring real environments into the virtual world.
Matthew "Matt" Ng
2017 - 2018
During his time with the group, he compared the mechanical performance of polyetherimide (ULTEM) to that of polyether ether ketone (PEEK) in a heated, irradiated environment.
Noah Shandelman
2017 - 2018
During his time with the group, he designed, prototyped and manufactured mechanical systems for a Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) nuclear cask inspection robot.
Vasudev Vohra
2017 - 2018
During his time with the group, he researched aerodynamic drag reductions in vehicle convoys.
Haochen Wu
2017 - 2018
During his time with the group, he researched an algorithm of vehicle control that emulates human behavior to prevent possible collisions.
Andrew Whalen
2007 - 2017
During his time with the group, he researched the modeling and control of brain diseases including epileptic seizure prediction in humans, a pathophysiological phenomenon known as 'spreading depression' which is related to traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, and migraine headaches. Andrew incorporated techniques from the weather predictio community and utilized electric and micro-magnetic MEMs devices to stimulate cortical tissues.
Kavan Shah
2015 - 2017
During his time with the group, he did work
Aditya Agarwal
2016 - 2017
During his time with the group, he helped with research on indoor localization systems that used magnetic fields.
Dhananjay Bhaskar
2016 - 2017
During his time with the group, he installed ultrasonic sensors on the Husky unmanned ground vehicle for improved obstacle avoidance.
Dhruv Bohara
2016 - 2017
During his time with the group, he worked on the Nuclear Engineering University Program project designing and manufacturing the parts that need to be there for the robot.
Raveen Fernando
2016 - 2017
During his time with the group, he did his honors thesis
Conor Kennedy
2016 - 2017
During his time with the group, he worked with the Nuclear Energy University Program to help develop a robotic system that inspects nuclear storage casks to ensure that the casks are structurally sound.
Mike Kontra
2016 - 2017
During his time with the group, he did his honors thesis
Karan Kumar
2016 - 2017
During his time with the group, he did his honors thesis
Hugo McMenamin
2016 - 2017
During his time with the group, he researched vehicle dynamics and control for tire friction estimation and collision avoidance.
Pinpin Qin
2016 - 2017
During her time with the group, she was a visiting scholar who researched the effects of infrastructure on following vehicle dynamics in a platoon.
Jan-Christopher Scharsig
2016 - 2017
During his time with the group, he analyzed time-delay system theory for interconnected systems.
Mengxiong Wan
2016 - 2017
During his time with the group, he designed and installed an encoder on the group's instrumented mapping vehicle and improved an existing tire model.
Guangyu Zhou
2016 - 2017
During his time with the group, he worked on image processing and detection for the NSF Virtual Reality project.
Patrick Proffitt
2011 - 2016
During his time with the group, he researched methods of real-time point cloud merging and processing. His goal was to fuse point clouds with other data-sets (video, thermal imaging, etc.) to aid path-planning and obstacle-avoidance algorithms. His thesis work focused on using terrain-based features for localization of vehicles.
Jariullah "Jari" Safi
2012 - 2016
During his time with the group, he studied efficient and versatile underlying map representations primarily for robot and autonomous vehicle localization. He also served as the Penn State student working on Volvo's ROAR project. For this project, he created maps as well as low order representations of dense point cloud scans to allow for the localization and real-time monitoring of the trash collecting robot.
Chris Miller
2013 - 2016
During his time with the group, he developed autonomous wheelchair technologies to increase freedom of mobility for patients with progressive neurodegenerative diseases, namely ALS. His projects on the wheelchair included: electronic hardware design and fabrication, battery state of charge estimation for return path planning, positive and negative object detection and avoidance, safety architecture design, and estimation of patient health via user input monitoring.
Yang Hang
2014 - 2016
During his time with the group, he researched vehicle road departure detection using anomalies in dynamics. His research aimed to identify the transition from on-road to off-road conditions by looking at changes in vehicle dynamics.
Zach Whittaker
2014 - 2016
During his time with the group, he researched test methods to extrapolate robot energy usage during missions.
Prashant Arora
2015 - 2016
During his time with the group, he developed a driving simulator to investigate how distraction impacts driver performance and countermeasures that minimized negative effects.
Jacob Beck
2015 - 2016
During his time with the group, he developed localization techniques using computer vision for a nuclear inspection robot. In the past, Jacob has developed robotics technology at NASA and Tohoku University.
Christian Hohl
2015 - 2016
During his time with the group, he aided the development of the mapping vehicle and the drive-by-wire P1 vehicle.
Ulf Mueller
2016 - 2016
During his time with the group, he joined the group as an International Scholar from University of Stuttgart, Germany. He received his Bachelors Degree at DHBW Stuttgart. Ulf also worked at MAHLE in Advanced Research of Heat Exchangers and was involved in the Schools Formula Student Team as head of suspension. After his Undergraduate Studies, he joined Daimler AG as an Simulation Engineer in Vehicle Ride and Handling.
Richard "Rich" Mattes
2009 - 2015
During his time with the group, he worked on particle-filter-based vehicle localization using reflected intensity data from a scanning laser range-finder.
Paul Stankiewicz
2011 - 2015
During his time with the group, he researched preview control strategies that optimized vehicle road departure trajectory to prevent both collision and rollover. He utilized existing infrastructure and low-cost sensors for vehicle control in emergency situations.
Mike Robinson
2012 - 2015
During his time with the group, he researched novel ways to to apply optimal control theory to autonomous vehicle motion planning with focus on vehicle-pedestrian avoidance and safety analysis.
Anthony Trezza
2013 - 2015
During his time with the group, he explored the potential of utilizing magnetic guidance to assist in lateral sensing of intelligent vehicles.
Brendan McNelly
2014 - 2015
During his time with the group, he worked on the design and construction of a multi-sensor robot that can inspect dry cask storage containers to ensure the safe storage of used nuclear fuel.
Jian Carlos Bonelli
2015 - 2015
During his time with the group, he was an international exchange student assisting in the development of smart vehicle technologies.
Pereira Caio
2015 - 2015
During his time with the group, he was an international exchange student assisting in the development of smart vehicle technologies.
Nadine Geagea
2015 - 2015
During her time with the group, she performed research involved indoor localization based on spatial, non-uniform magnetic fields, sensor testing for LiDAR and ultrasonic obstacle avoidance, and ergonomic design of wheelchair components.
Messenger Sierra
2015 - 2015
During her time with the group, she developed demonstration inspection robots for nuclear canisters and facilities
Kshitij Jerath
2007 - 2014
During his time with the group, he worked on guiding the behavior of complex systems with focus on altering the dynamics of self-organized traffic jams. He also worked on terrain-based vehicle tracking, system reliability, and human detection in complex environments. After graduation, he joined the Aerial Vehicle Intelligence and Autonomy (AVIA) Lab at Penn State as a Post-Doctoral Researcher with Dr. Jack Langelaan. He is now a faculty at U. Mass Lowell.
Emil Laftchiev
2010 - 2014
During his time with the group, he studied vehicle localization methods using intertial measurements. The goal of the project is to develop data representations that retain the most important information from the data while being easily stackable in a map and highly resistant to noise in the measurements.
Jesse Pentzer
2010 - 2014
During his time with the group, he examined the optimization of hybrid robot powertrains and scaling of explosive ordinance disposal robot designs. Jesse joined the group as a PhD student in 2010 coming from the University of Idaho. He currently is a research scientist at the Applied Research Laboratory.
Sam Hoskins
2011 - 2014
During his time with the group, he researched natural barriers as anti-ram devices for protection against terrorist attacks, including the development of scaling laws for reduced-scale testing.
Katie Briggs
2012 - 2014
During her time with the group, she worked with the Applied Research Lab on the RE2 Robotic manipulator. Robotic manipulators are used for research in fields of explosive ordinance disposal, and various manipulation tasks for the Army and NIST. Her project also involved working on autonomous manipulation refueling tasks on fuel tanks in remote areas.
David Corbin
2012 - 2014
During his time with the group, he developed automated methods for road measurements and vehicle dynamics. Additionally, this research included pavement-edge measurements using a vehicle-borne LIDAR, and entry control facility design using vehicle simulations to predict efficacy of geometries.
Adam Crimboli
2013 - 2014
During his time with the group, he developed analysis systems to support standardized robot testing methods and investigations into operator variability and power consumption for human controlled emergency response ground robots.
Ted Dorris
2013 - 2014
During his time with the group, he focused on algorithms for automated docking of tractor trailers using LIDAR and cameras.
Alex Brown
2008 - 2013
During his time with the group, he investigated worst-case steering maneuvers for vehicle designs based on novel roll stability metrics, low-order models of single-track vehicles, guidelines for deployment of police pursuit intervention technologies, and high-speed video analysis of crash data. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lafayette College.
Anthony Mangus
2010 - 2013
During his time with the group, he researched estimation algorithms using low cost sensors and small-scale vehicle test platforms.
Herschel Pangborn
2010 - 2013
During his time with the group, he did his honors thesis studying the reliability and repeatability of off-road ground robots during harsh in harsh testing courses.
Kevin Swanson
2010 - 2013
During his time with the group, he studied vehicle dynamics and automation, including novel experiments on teleoperation of remotely-controlled full-scale passenger vehicles. He is currently working with ArgoAI.
Brittany Klein
2012 - 2013
During her time with the group, she assisted in smart vehicle development
Pramod Vemulapalli
2007 - 2012
During his time with the group, he studied data comparison methods that optimally reduce the noise in signals for pattern matching.
Mark Keske
2011 - 2012
During his time with the group, he developed anti-ram barriers
Miguel Moll
2011 - 2012
During his time with the group, he was an exchange student from IQS, Spain. His work focused on programming micro-controllers (Arduinos) to control power systems as well as developing software for embedded control of DC motors. After graduating with his M.S., he joined Hewlett-Packard.
Matt Barnes
2009 - 2011
During his time with the group, he developed a high-efficiency electrical bicycle assistance system
Tara Sulewski
2009 - 2011
During her time with the group, she conducted research focusing on biomechanics, mechatronics and sustainable appropriate design. Tara Sulewski received her B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State in 2008 and 2010. She joined the School of Engineering Design (SEDTAPP) in Fall 2010 as an instructor for Introduction to Engineering Design where she continues to teach. After graduating,she joined Accenture as a Systems Integration Analyst.
Sneha Kadetotad
2010 - 2011
During her time with the group, she completed her M.S. in Electrical Engineering in May 2011. Her work involved developing alternatives to GPS using terrain-based localization through implementation of a global particle filter that used features generated from terrain data such as pitch or roll. After graduating, she joined The Mathworks as an Application Support Engineer.
Max Montenbruck
2010 - 2011
During his time with the group, he joined the group from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany as an exchange student. He work included the robust control of distributed systems with delay using model-predictive control and system synchronization, which he pursued as part of his bachelor's thesis.
Tejas Varunjikar
2010 - 2011
During his time with the group, he developed design techniques for horizontal curve design of highways. He also worked on simulation of vehicle dynamics using real terrain data. Tejas joined the group from I.I.T. Bombay and graduated in May 2011 with an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. After graduating, Tejas joined Nexteer Automotive as a Controls Engineer.
Sittikorn Lapaong
2005 - 2010
During his time with the group, he worked on vehicle similitude and terrain-aware rollover prevention for ground vehicles. His interests include vehicle dynamics. After graduating with his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering he joined the National Metal and Materials Technology Center, Thailand as a Researcher in the Automotive Lab.
Drew Logan
2007 - 2010
During his time with the group, he worked on mobile ground robot scaling principles and optimization of hybrid power systems on a joint project with the Applied Research Laboratory. He is currently employed with NAVSEA in the Structural Acoustics and Target Strength Branch at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, West Bethesda, MD.
Stephen "Steve" Chaves
2008 - 2010
During his time with the group, he worked with the Applied Research Lab and TACOM, researching collision-avoidance systems and vehicle-to-vehicle networks for military convoys. After graduating he joined the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and then completed his PhD in robotic systems from UMich.
Sanket Amin
2009 - 2010
During his time with the group, he studied anti-collisions systems for military convoys. Sanket now resides in Southern Maryland near the Patuxent River Naval Air Station where he is employed as Acquisition and Oversight Engineer on the Joint Strike Fighter program. His particular area of focus is the development and implementation of Prognostic Health management technologies for both the F135 and F136 jet engines.
Vishisht Gupta
2004 - 2009
During his time with the group, he integrated sensor solutions for fault-tolerant vehicle state estimation and guidance. After graduating he joined TRW Automotive as a Principal Product Engineer and is now working in the west coast on advanced robotic sensing systems.
Pol Morral
2008 - 2009
During his time with the group, he finished his degree in Industrial Engineering at Barcelona (Spain) on June 2008. During his stay, Pol, along with Joan Singla, worked on an autonomous tank robot, developed efficient software architecture and path planning algorithms as part of Penn State's entry at the IGVC (Intelligent Ground Vehicles Competition).
Jason Stine
2008 - 2009
During his time with the group, he conducted vehicle dynamics simulations to predict the relationship between highway median geometry and the resulting crash outcomes as part of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)22-21 project. After graduating with a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2009, Jason joined at The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, OH as a Tire Development Engineer.
Michael Petersheim
2004 - 2008
During his time with the group, he studied distributed hardware-in-the-loop architectures for testing advanced vehicle powertrains under the DOE GATE program as part of his M.S. degree. After graduating, Michael joined Spectrum Microwave, Inc. as as an engineering database (Solidworks Enterprise PDM) administrator and developer.
Adam Dean
2005 - 2008
During his time with the group, he joined the group in Fall 2005 after graduating with his Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University. His expertise is on problems involving simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using multi-robot coordination, three-dimensional localization, adaptive control and tank dynamics. After graduation he accepted a faculty position at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University, Idaho where he continues to teach today.
Joe Yutko
2006 - 2008
During his time with the group, he conducted research sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) validating the PTI Bus Testing Program and developing methodologies to predict vehicle subsystem component failures. Joe joined the group in Fall 2006 after graduating with B.S. Mechanical Engineering from Wilkes University (PA). After graduating, he accepted a full-time position at Caterpillar.
Christian Hubicki
2007 - 2008
During his time with the group, he developed improved engine starter systems for the HEMTT ground military vehicle.
Bridget Hamblin
2005 - 2007
During her time with the group, she was an NSF GREAT fellow with research interests in vehicle dynamics geared towards making driving safer by preventing accidents. She worked on projects for NCHRP 22-21 to analyze the influence of highway geometries on accident causation using vehicle dynamics simulations. After graduating, she joinded Honda R&D.
Dennis Plank
2006 - 2007
During his time with the group, he created a modular instrumentation system that can be used to rapidly measure tire properties on many vehicles for his honors thesis. After graduation, he accepted a position with Honda R&D in Raymond, OH as a Chassis Design Engineer.
Alexia Ruiz
2006 - 2007
During her time with the group, she joined the group as an international exchange student (Barcelona, Spain) in Summer 2006. Her expertise is on embedded systems, and her projects included developing microprocessor interfaces to PC's, vision-based sensing and control, and coordination of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
Jon Weidner
2006 - 2007
During his time with the group, he conducted his honors thesis in Fall 2006 as a senior mechanical engineer, studying the dynamics and stability of tractor-trailer systems.
Nan Yu
2006 - 2007
During his time with the group, he studied vehicle dynamics and stability. Nan joined our group in 2006 to finish up his thesis, originally under the late Bohdan Kulakowski. He finished his PhD in Spring 2007.
Haftay Hailu
2004 - 2006
During his time with the group, he developed scaling-oriented control theory, model reduction and system similarity, and structured robust control techniques. Haftay was an NSF GREAT fellow, and graduate in May 2006. After graduating he joined Honeywell Aerospace.
Ryan Martini
2004 - 2006
During his time with the group, he started in the group studying some novel projects, including laser-based vehicle measurement (hence the picture). He graduated with his M.S. in Summer 2006 with his final project on GPS/INS integration to measure vehicle dynamics and vehicle localization based on road grade. Ryan was an NSF GREAT fellow, and is now working for GM Powertrain.
Andrew Glumac
2005 - 2006
During his time with the group, he was a undergraduate working on his honors thesis. His project required him to match the behavior of scale-size vehicle tires to the performance of full-size vehicle tires, including fabrication of new tire designs and experimental testing.
Mariona Gomez
2005 - 2006
During her time with the group, she was an exchange research student from Barcelona, Spain. She worked on accident scenarios at a smaller scale as well as completion of the micro/macro beam experiment. She now works at the Headquarters of Nestle in Barcelona in the Engineering & Packaging department.
Janine Kowalczyk
2005 - 2006
During her time with the group, she tested, as part of her honors thesis, control algorithms to prevent vehicle rollover with a primary focus on limit-handling inputs and threshold conditions predicting sliding versus rollover. After graduation, she joined the Boeing Satellite Development Center in El Segundo, CA.
Vipul Mehta
2005 - 2006
During his time with the group, he worked on a DARPA project on robotic snake locomotion and modeling. After working with our team, his interests grew increasingly toward design and he completed his PhD in design and optimization in the Engineering Design and Optimization Group.
Saravanan Muthia
2005 - 2006
During his time with the group, he worked on a joint project with Prof. Bohdan Kulakowski on modeling of bus reliability, and comparing these results obtained from PTI testing to in-service bus reliability. He graduated in Fall 2006.
Keith Bourne
2003 - 2005
During his time with the group, he developed vehicle metrology and visualization tools for his honors thesis.
John Cameron
2003 - 2005
During his time with the group, he was our first Master's student, defending on Nov. 2005 working on vehicle dynamic modeling for the prediction and prevention of vehicle rollover. His career includes robot and satellite development at Harris Robotics in their Satellite Deployment group and current work in Pittsburg for a company specializing in warehousing robotics.
Empar Callejas
2004 - 2005
During her time with the group, she was a visiting international exchange graduate student from Spain specializing in matching scale-to-full-size vehicle behavior, with a side project on Hydrogen combustion. Now working for Bostik, a multinational adhesive company in Spain.
Justin Ellis
2005 - 2005
During his time with the group, he was a summer research intern studying macro to meso/micro scaling of control laws for a buckling beam-type setup.
Gareth Murray Jr.
2005 - 2005
During his time with the group, he did an undergraduate summer internship working on meso to macro comparison of vehicle dynamics using a rolling roadway testbed, specializing in tire dynamics. After completing his internship, Gareth joined the London School of Theology to pursue an M.S. degree.
Joan Singla
2008 - 2003
During his time with the group, he spent two semesters at the Penn State University as a part of his Master on investigation in Engineering. Joan Singla finished his degree in Industrial Engineering at Barcelona (Spain) on June 2008. During his stay at Penn State, Joan worked on an autonomous tank robot, developed efficient software architecture and path planning algorithms as part of Penn State's entry at the IGVC (Intelligent Ground Vehicles Competition).
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