Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab
(dzl)

Current Graduate Research Students

Bill Green (PhD track: Started Summer 2002) Email
Subject: Visually Servoed Aerial Robots for Situational Awareness. Bill's work will enable flying robots to a perform missions autonomously

Keith Sevcik (BS) Email
Subject: Closed-Quarter Aerial Robots: Keith is designing the flight avionics and sensor suite.

Todd Danko (PhD track: Started Summer 2004) Email
Subject: Robotic rotorcraft. Todd designs and applies sensor suites to autonomously control small-sized (less than 14-inch fuselage) helicopters.

Nick Sousounis (PhD track: Started Winter 2005) Email
Subject: Inertial navigation. Nick applies optimal estimators to accurately measure vehicle pose

Vefa Narli (PhD track: Started Spring 2005) Email
Subject: Controller Design. Vefa will design a micro-air-vehicle test rig by implementing a model reference adaptive controller

Current Undergraduate/Masters Research Students

Shreyansh Shah (BS) Email
Subject: Near-Space Balloon

Blake Rubin (BS) Email
Subject: Website design and coast guard surveillance camera

2004-2005 Undergraduates

Sajeel Shiromani MedEvac Casualty Extraction Arm
David Williams Senior Design Team will design a robotic arm that extracts casualties
Jonathan Sente from a combat zone or disaster area. The arm can mount
Zachary Sabato on a conventional or unmanned ground vehicle

Former Years Undergraduates

Michael Joyce 2003-2004 Microhovering Air Vehicle
Justin Gallagher Senior Design Team will design a backpackable ducted fan
Long Huynh vehicle capable of hovering indoors while carrying a 0.5 lb payload and
Teng Myauo transmitting live video wirelessly.
Elan Kazam
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Chris Kim 2002 Pressure Sensitivite Brake Light
Min Chol Kim Freshmen Design Team 100 is prototyping a brake light retrofit. The brightness of the brake light
Tien Nguyen proportional to how hard the driver steps on the brake. The desired effect is to prevent rear-end collisions.
Kyongdo Kim The brightness warns rear cars of the driver's braking intention.
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Lil Falkenstein FSAE 2001: Formula I Society of Automotive Engineers
Phil Leithead Senior Design Team is designing a working prototype wireless data
Igor Yudilevich acquisition system to optimize the Drexel Dragon race car.
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Beverly King LEAP 2001: Low Elevation Aerial Photography
Marc Fava Senior Design Team is adding sensors to last year's kite-flown camera
Nate Carleton for disaster mitigation and situational awareness tasks.
Bill Green
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Chong McLaren 2001 Palm Pilot based Data Acquistion Unit
David Kopanic Freshmen Design Team is prototyping a handheld data acquisition unit.
Kevin Franco The unit connects a Palm Pilot with sensors thus measuring
Kyle Monarch states like temperature and mass
William Lewis
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Alex Moseson (BS) Email
Subject: 2-DOF Laboratory Helicopter platform (Honors Project)

Joshua Capparella (BS Honors) Email
Subject: Closed-Quarter Aerial Robots: Josh is prototyping an all-foam, prop-pusher 19-inch wingspan, 23-gram aerial robot.

Santiago Serrano (BS/MS) Email
Subject: Omnicam, 3D Reconstruction, mosaicks, face-recognition

Alankar Sharma (BS/MS) Email
Subject: ER-1 Robot tutorial

Tai Dinh Nguyen (BS) Email
Subject: Sensor Suite and Rotary-Wing Vehicles: Tai has worked with the ADXL accelerometer and is flying model helicopters.

Graduated

Rares Stanciu (PhD December 2004): Work Folder | Email
Subject: Human-in-the-loop visual-servoing. His work will augment human camera operators with applications like broadcasting or situational awareness; machine vision is used to keep a moving target in constant camera field-of-view.

Bharat Shah (Masters Jan 2003): Work Folder | Email
Subject: Biomimicking head-eye motion behavior by partitioning rotationally redundant degrees-of-freedom. His machine vision work will enable faster target tracking without using faster motors.

Ian White (Independent Research - Graduated B.Sc. June 2002) : Work Folder | Email
Subject: Mold making, PCB fabrication and circuit construction for mechatronics

Yanni Giannopoulos (MEM 640 Completion - Graduated B.Sc. June 2002) Work Folder | Email
Subject: Digital data acquisition, filtering and PC-based control systems.

Pragnay Choksi (B.Sc June 2004) (BS) Email
Subject: Robot Biped: Pragnay is designing a visually-servoed two-legged walking robot.

Michael Joyce (B.Sc June 2004) Email
Subject: Characterization on Control. Mike is constructing a 6-DOF test rig with workspaces that can emulate near-Earth environments like forests, caves or urban structures. The rig will capture performance metrics for MAVs flying in near-Earth environments.

Justin Gallagher (B.Sc June 2004) Email
Subject: Characterization on Control. Justin is constructing a non-flying Class 1 MAV mockup. The mockup will host sensor suites and will fit on the 6-DOF test rig.