Team

Arjun Sridhar

I am a graduating 3rd EECS major. My main interests are robotics and autonomous vehicles. Robotics has been one of interests for many years particularly its use as a tool to get high school students interested in STEM. My decision to become an engineer was influenced heavily by FIRST robotics. Since coming to Berkeley, I joined a club called Pioneers in Engineering. We perform STEM outreach to local high schools in the form of a low cost robotics competition and mentorship program.

Felix Su

I'm a graduating 4th year CS major with an interest in machine learning, particularly in the fields of computer vision and robotics. I had a lot of fun interning on the Robotics team at Amazon this past summer and will be returning full time, so I thought it would be a good idea to get my hands dirty and learn about transforms and kinematics more in depth. I intend to extend my work experience with robots to training machine learning models both in simulation and in warehouses so I can test their performances on real hardware.

Sahil Sancheti

I am a graduating 3rd year EECS major with an interest in machine learning and robotics and their applications to real world problems. As I continue my exploration of machine learning's applications, I hope to be able to unify the ideas and concepts that I've learned to invent some truly unique and useful use cases. I further plan to explore computer vision and develop my skills further in that area.

Team Member Contributions

• Arjun and Sahil implemented the TurtleBot point to point traversal using SLAM to map the trajectory to the Sawyer arm to deliver the object.
• Felix implemented the pick and place algorithm to perform accurate grasps and motions given starting and ending destinations.
• After finishing the first task, Arjun and Sahil joined Felix to add collision aware path planning, implement static transformations between the camera frame and robot base frame, and to calibrate Sawyer.
• We also joined up to improve accuracy and optimize our performance with the robot collaborations.