Resume
Research Experience
- Currently working at NASA Ames Research Center, Intelligent Robotics Group
- Limits of Life in the Atacama project: Developed robotic astrobiology techniques using the Zoe rover with onboard chlorophyll detection and autonomous follow-up measurements
- FIRE Architecture Project: Explored multi-robot architectures for Mars exploration using market-based task allocation
- Distributed Robot Architectures (DIRA) Project: Built a software framework for coordinating heterogeneous robots (RoboCrane, Bullwinkle, Xavier) to perform beam docking
- Mars Autonomy Project: Integrated Morphin obstacle avoidance with D* path planner; ported software to Rocky VII rover at JPL in summer 2000
- Advanced Autonomy for Rovers Project at NASA Ames: Designed a language for expressing contingent plans for the Marsokhod rover