Research
Ph.D. (June 2011 - Ongoing)
Planning Under Uncertainty
- Controllability criteria for temporal plans with uncertainty.
- Planning with active sensing actions.
Robotic Manufacturing
- Development of a robotic manufacturing test bed featuring different types of robots and sensors.
- Machine vision methods for environment sensing.
Master's (August 2008 - February 2011)
Hybrid systems
- Modeling of complex dynamical systems.
- Stability and control theory for hybrid systems.
- Multiple models estimation.
- Application of the hybrid framework to the stochastic filtering problem.
Aerial Robotics
- Modeling, instrumentation, and control of a quadrotor UAV using visual feedback.
- Development of a self-stabilizing helicopter for power lines inspection.
- Fault detection and robust navigation using hybrid stochastic filtering.
Networked Control Systems (NCSs)
- Modeling, control, and formulation of robust stability criteria for NCSs.
- Development of a test bed for control and identification of NCSs.
Embedded Systems
- Instrumentation hardware and software for aerial and mobile robots.
- Development of real-time embedded GNU/Linux distributions for energy-restricted systems.