URAP

Avideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Over the past few years, we have developed a reinforcement learning based framework for a drone to navigate from one point to another point while avoiding obstacles. In doing so, we do not use the GPS signal as it could be intermittent in many situations. Our approach has been to...

Avideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Over the past few years, we have developed autonomy algorithms to enable a tracked robot to vacuum debris ( peanuts, insulation etc) as it traverses over joists. The current approach is not adaptive in that the hose moves in a predefined sequence of movements. In this project, we will develop an...

Avideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

In this project, we will develop methods to enable a Unitree G1 robot to walk, run, and perform whole body tasks such as bending over to pick up boxes. Some of the techniques we will investigate include Reinforcement Learning...

Avideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     

We have a number of drones and robots in our lab which are in need of a perception sensors before they can be used. Examples of perception sensors include, RGB cameras, RGB-Depth cameras, Visual-inertial-Odometry units, LiDAR, IMU, etc. In this project, we will be designing mounts for...

Andreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

COSI, the Compton Spectrometer and Imager, is a NASA-funded gamma-ray telescope which is currently under development and scheduled for launch in 2027. It will observe Galactic nucleosynthesis and positron annihilation, as well as the most violent events in our Universe (supernovae, neutron star mergers) and the most extreme...

Andreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a NASA high-altitude balloon mission designed to detect messengers of dark matter interactions in the galaxy. Apprentices are needed to participate in development and testing of both hardware and online software as GAPS prepares for a December 2024 launch from Antarctica. GAPS is...

Andreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

MEGAlib is a toolkit designed to calibrate, simulate, reconstruct, and analyze data from gamma-ray detectors. It is widely used in astrophysics, solar physics, planetary science, nuclear security applications, and medical imaging. To support the continued development of MEGAlib, we plan to implement a set of end-to-end tests...