Welcome, I am a robotics engineer for Anybots Inc. a startup company in Silocon Valley, CA working on human capable teleoperated robots. At Anybots I have been working on a number of projects, from a new hand to improving the teleoperation software. Our goal is to create human capable teleoperated robots. Initially they will be for use in areas too dangerous for humans.
I received my Bachelor's degree in Physics from Lawrence University in 2006 with a senior project in AI problem solving using AIBO robots and sensory graph planning. In 2007 I completed a Master's thesis at RPI on adaptive topology control of mobile distributed sensor networks. I have worked on robotics in both academic and industrial settings including autonomous underwater vehicles at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and automation control at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute.
In 2005 I spent a semester studying at Kanda University in Makurari Japan.
I am doing my masters research at the CATS center under professor Sanderson on Distributed Mobile Sensor Networks. As sensor nodes move, their limited radio power means that connectivity may be degraded or broken. My research focuses on how to move some of the nodes to maintain connectivity while the rest of them move according to their mission.
