Significant technical advancements in multiple projects, including kinematic calibration, wire arc additive manufacturing, and robot motion optimization.
Research Experience
Configuration Dependent Kinematic Calibration (ARM 22-01-F-07): Developed a configuration dependent kinematic model calibration framework for robot arms, leveraging Fourier basis, Neural Network and Autoencoder to achieve sub-millimeter accuracy in TCP position estimation, significantly surpassing baseline performance by sixfold.
In-situ Multi-Robot Multi-Sensor Data-Driven Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (ARM 22-01-F-07): Developed an in-situ multi-robot multi-sensor data-driven WAAM framework to achieve high-fidelity part fabrication.
Multi-Robot Scan-n-Print for Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (ARM 22-01-F-07): Developed a multi-robot scan-n-print framework for WAAM monitoring and control, demonstrating significant improvements of the closed loop scan-n-print approach over the current open loop result on both a flat wall and a more complex turbine blade shape.
Robot Motion Optimization (ARM 21-02-F-19): Developed a full stack robot arm motion optimization framework achieving sub-millimeter accuracy in tracking desired curves in space with the robot arm, surpassing baseline speeds by up to 7.8 times.
Emotional Expressive Robot: Designed a control strategy for a 10-degree-of-freedom mobile manipulator to express internal information, focusing on emotions, through motion behaviors. Utilized crowdsourcing to learn the best parameter combinations for expressing different emotions.
Education
PhD Candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, advised by Dr. John Wen
Background
Robotics Engineer, with research interests encompassing motion optimization and kinematic calibration for robot arms within manufacturing contexts. My research incorporates concepts from robotics, optimization, and control. Additionally, I have experience in semi-autonomous vehicles for search and exploration, utilizing SLAM, deep learning, and reinforcement learning methodologies.
Miscellany
Email: luc5@rpi.edu, Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, Availability: I check my email daily and respond promptly to inquiries.