Associate Professor of Computer Science
Some of my research students recently presented at the CSUCI Student Research Conference. Robot Base for Navigating Naval Vessels Dylan Dauz, Sameeh Olipani, Kenna Chase, Samantha Buckle, Sara Centeno, Hugo Quintero, Andrew Herding, Dr. Jason Isaacs Robot Arm for Responsibilities on Naval Vessels Kenna Chase, Samantha Buckle, Dylan Dauz, Sameeh Olipani, Sara Centeno, Hugo Quintero, […]
Our team for the DARPA SubT Challenge was recently featured in several news articles. The most recent one was in Wired Magazine and was authored by Tom Vanderbilt with some awesome photos by Spencer Lowell. The Wired article focuses almost exclusively on our underdog team. Before that, we were part of a story in the […]
Last weekend Kevin Scrivnor and I traveled out to the hills surrounding campus with a group of students to perform a health check on the CI Rainbow wireless sensor network (WSN). Unfortunately, due to COVID19 the CI Rainbow system has been neglected for the past couple of years, and will need to some minor repairs […]
In order to be able to explore deeper into the underground environment while still being able to communicate with our base-station we are investigating the use of communication breadcrumbs which can be dropped at strategic locations to build out a mesh network. The underlying technology that we are using is called BATMAN Advanced. The embedded […]
Recently Andrew and I took Mike the Bike Robot out for a test drive. This robot is modeled after the RATLER rover from NASA. It has a pivot point in the middle of the frame which allows it to drive over obstacles such as curbs with ease. Click on post to view a short video […]
