People

Graduate and Undergraduate Students who are currently working on Robotics Research Projects

1) HART Team: Development of Self-Driving Full-sized Humanoid

Jordaine Wisdom (Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering)

Ethan Sharpe (Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering)

James Robinson (Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering)

Rahul Kumar (Bachelor of Science in Computer Science)

        Andrew Esteves (Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering)

       Jaesung Yang (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering)

2) HARQ Team: Development of Kinematically Reconfigurable Full-sized Quadruped

Casper Muter (Bachelor of Science in Electromechanical Engineering Technology)

Rodrigo Levy  (Bachelor of Science in Electromechanical Engineering Technology)

      Basel Almutawa  (Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering)

Salman Hussain (Mentor and Engineer in OTIS Elevator, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering)

Keshwan Smith (Mentor and Engineer in Travelers, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering)

Simon Oneil (Bacehlor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Audio Eng Tech)

        Alexander Schneidler (Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering)

3) SLAM with IOT Sensors: Development of Mono Vison based SLAM for Mobile Robots

Keshwan Smith (Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Engineer in Travelers)

4) ITCM-VROM: Mobile-Humanoid: Development of VR-Controlled Mobile Robot Platform and its System 

Current Memebers:

        Liam Platt (Master of Science in Electrical Engineering)

        Brent Higgins (Master of Science in Electrical Engineering)

        Natalia Salgado (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering)

        Bryant Ortiz (Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering)

   Dennis Tekyi (Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering)

   Ayala Alejandro (Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering)

   Owen Coyne (Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering)

   Spencer Freedman (Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering)

      Former Members:

   ChunLiang Kuo (Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering)

   Aidan Emanuleson (Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering)

5) Drone design and building

  Ben Chern (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering)

  Ayala Alejandro (Bachelor of Science in Robotics Engineering)

  Dorsen Joseph (Bachelor of Science in Electromechanical Engineering Technology)

  Max Schilowitz (Bachelor of Science in Computer and Electronic Engineering Technology)

Undergraduate Students who are currently searching Topics for Interested Projects

 Rodriguez Ramon (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering)

 Kiva Gordon (Bachelor of Science in Computer and Electronic Engineering Technology)

Jonathan Ho (Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering)

Undergraduate Students who are currently working on Capstone and Senior Design Project

1) Smart Device: Development of Assistant Device for Physically Disable People

Sebastian Arreola (Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering)

     Sharai Baltimore (Bachelor of Science in Audio Engineering Technology)

Hailey Marcello (Bachelor of Science in Computer and Electronic Engineering Technology)

Matthew Sirois (Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering)

Alumni

Graduate Students who worked on Graduate Thesis and Research

1) Murshid, MohammadManzur (Master of Science in Electrical Engineering), Thesis topic: Human-robot synchronization using electromyography (EMG) signal (Defended at Dec 11, 2018).

2) Eric Jacobson (Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering), Thesis topic: Vision based control of rapidly flying drones (Defended at Dec 18, 2018).

3) Sarah Lamb (EM - Masters Business Admin. and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering), Thesis topic: Real-Time Control Analysis of a 3D Self-Balancing Inverted Pendulum and Cart System for Stability in the Event of a Sensor Failure (Defended at Mar 17, 2017).

Graduate Students who worked on Graduate Engineering Project 

1) Shatha, Barq (Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering), Thesis topic: Lane Detection for Humanoid Driving (Submitted the final project report at Dec, 2021).

2) Wong, Sam (Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering), Project topic: Human Assistive RoboT (HART) for Vehicle Driving Task (Defended at Dec 8, 2020).

3) Baogang Wu (Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering), Project topic: Kinematic analysis and motion control of miniature humanoids (Defended at May 7, 2018).

Undergraduate and Graduate Students who worked on Independent Study and Independent Project 

1) Gabe Alesse (Bachelor in Computer Engineering Tech), Project topic: Integration of collaborative robot arm with a conveyor belt system and its vision based clustering. ET 480 in Fall 2021.

2) Tamboli, Parth and Siembab, Alexander (both Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech), Project topic: Continued Studies on Mobile Carrying Platform, i-Explore. ET 480 in Fall 2020.

3) Emami, Aurian (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech), Project topic: Mobile Carrying Platform, i-Explore. ET 480 in Spring 2020.

4) Medina, Lionel (Bachelor in Biomedical Engineering) and Totz, Benjamin (Bachelor in Biomedical Engineering), Project topic: Mobile Carrying Platform, i-Explore. BE 480 in Spring 2020.

5) Afsar Ahamed Asaraf Ali (Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering), Self-motivated Study Project: Computer Vision in Spring 2019

6) Gouthamsai Bandarupalli (Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering) and Kevin Alejandro Canizares Villegas (Master in Electrical Engineering),  Self-motivated Study Project: Robot Design and ROS in Spring 2019

7) Nicholas Bauer (Bachelor in Computer Engineering Tech), Project topic: Voice-commanded Mobile Robot in ROS Environment. ET 380 in Spring 2019.

8) Jayesh Rathod (Master of Science in Electrical Engineering), Self-motivated Study Project: Computer Vision in Spring 2018

9) Morales Antonio (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering), Project topic: Convolute Neural Network using Tensor-Flow. ECE 481 in Fall 2018.

10) Mark Markiewicz (Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering), Project topic: Full-sized Humanoid Design and Programming. ES 395 in Fall 2018.

11) Stefan Keilich (Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering), Self-motivated Study Project: Full-sized Humanoid Design and Programming in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018.

12) Kelsey Wilson (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech), Project topic: Interfacing a control device in robot operation system (ROS). ET 380 in Spring 2017.

Undergraduate Students who worked on Capstone/Senior Design Project

1)  Project topic: Retrieval Robot using Sound Navigation                                                     Fall 2021 to Spring 2022

Hill, Casey (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Gargiulo, Evan (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Magnowski, Joseph (Bachelor in Computer Electronic Engineering Tech) 

2)  Project topic: Mini-HARQ                                                                                                    Fall 2021 to Spring 2022

Wu, Davi (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Ridley, Daniele (Bachelor in Computer Electronic Engineering Tech)

Marquez Mendoza, Hego (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Brown, Ariel (Bachelor in Computer Electronic Engineering Tech)

3)  Project topic: Sign2Speak                                                                                              Summer 2021 to Fall 2021                    Pozzi, Joe (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering)

Melaku, Barkot (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering)

Bekele, Natenael (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering) 

4)  Project topic: Active Aero Rear Wing                                                                               Summer 2021 to Fall 2021

Kral, Jake (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Novak, Frank (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Mirchandani, Nishita (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering)

Iacuone, Dominic (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Ranked as a Winner in CETA Design Expo on Dec 2021.

5)  Project topic: i-Explore Robot (version 2)                                                                           Fall 2020 to Spring 2021

Siembab, Alexander (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Tamboli, Parth (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech) 

6)  Project topic: Mini-HARQ Robotic Cat                                                                             Fall 2020 to Spring 2021

   Telford, Gabrielle (Bachelor in Audio Engineering Technology)

Haughton, Michael (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Vollaro, Steve (Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering)

Wein, Mason (Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering) 

7)  Project topic: TERI (STEM Educational Robot)                                                                  Fall 2020 to Spring 2021

Moore, Clayton (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering)

Azmat, Calum (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Shapovalov, Victor (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering)

8)  Project topic: Thomas Hooker Brewery: IoT                                                                       Fall 2019 to Spring 2020

Emami, Aurian (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Beauregard, Tyler (Bachelor in Computer Engineering)

Ranked as one of Winners in 2020 CETA Design Expo. 

9)  Project topic: ENZO                                                                                                            Fall 2019 to Spring 2022

   Garcia, Josephine (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering)

Sussmann, Erin (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering)

Downs, Corey (Bachelor in Computer Engineering) 

10)   Project topic: HARQ                                                                                                           Fall 2019 to Spring 2020

Hussain, Salman (Bachelor in Computer Engineering)

Bradnan, Matthew (Bachelor in Computer Engineering)

May, Owen (Bachelor in Electrical and Computer Engineering) 

11)   Project topic: Go-Kart Cluster                                                                                                             Summer 2019

Wilson, Jordain (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

12)   Project topic: iExplore (Mechanical Team and Electronic Team)                                     Fall 2018 to Spring 2019

Robert Brooks (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Virgil Greaux (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Kareema Shell (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

John Harkin (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering)

Judd Hessenberger (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Fernando Huapaya-Rios (Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering)

13)   Project topic: Manipulator design and control for robot puppet                                          Spring 2018 to Fall 2018

Jesse Pezza (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Ranked as one of Winners in 2018 Winter CETA Design Expo.

14)   Project topic: Humanoid Robotic Legs                                                                               Fall 2017 to Spring 2018

Wilson, Kelsey (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Barnett, Michael (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Cain, Joshua (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech) 

Ranked as one of the top 10 teams in 2018 CETA Design Expo

15)   Project topic: Stair Climbing Service Robot                                                                  Fall 2017 to Spring 2018

Morris, Ethan (Bachelor in Computer Engineering Tech)

Ulebor, Obioma (Bachelor in Computer Engineering Tech)

Merrill, Shaun (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech)

Currier, Thomas (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech) 

16)   Project topic: IoT Robotic Instrument for Healthcare                                                  Fall 2017 to Spring 2018

Morales, Antonio (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering)

Ranked as one of the top 3 teams (2nd place) in 2018 CETA Design Expo

17)   Project topic: 3D gantry robot building for autonomous elevator                                        Fall 2016 to Spring 2017

Wisnaskas, Michael (Bachelor in Electronic Engineering Tech)

Wilcox, David (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering)

Hall, Kadian (Bachelor in Electromechanical Engineering Tech) 

Co-Advisors and Mentors of ART (and UHART Robotics Club)

Prof. Mellodge, Patricia (ECE) - Mobile Robotics, Swarm and Control Systems

Prof. Yu, Ying (ECE) - Digital Signal (Speech) Processing

Prof. Tatoglu, Akin (ME) - Mobile Robot and SLAM, Mechatronics

Affiliated Co-Advisors and Former Mentors of ART (and UHART Robotics Club)

Prof. Salehi, Hassan (California State University)  - Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Kosa, Ali (OTIS in UTC) - Programming and Image Processing

Prof. Sarah Lamb (Black & Decker) - Robot Control and FIRST Robotics