Here are some resources pertaining to robotics, communication skills, and graduate school applications that I made or contributed to. I will continue to update these resources and will also link to others that I find.
I hope you find them helpful!
Robotics Topics
Advanced Motion Planning: An OMPL Tutorial with Examples
Covers newer motion planning methods like FMT*, Informed RRT*, BIT*, and RABIT*, and provides an overview of the Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL). Includes demonstrations using OMPL with code examples.
Slides | Code | Presentation
Intro to PID Control with an Interactive Google Colab Session
An interactive workshop providing intuition for robot feedback control and PID.
Includes example code walkthroughs in a Google Colab Notebook
Slides | Code | Presentation | RoboLaunch
Tartan Planning Series
The goal of this series was to expand the understanding of those both new and experienced with planning in the context of robotics. Sessions included research talks, as well as introductions to various themes of planning and thought provoking open-ended discussions.
Tartan SLAM Series Fall Edition
The second edition of our SLAM series. Sessions included research talks, as well as introductions to various themes of SLAM and thought provoking open-ended discussions.
Tartan SLAM Series
Our enaugeral series on SLAM topics. Sessions included research talks, as well as introductions to various themes of SLAM and thought provoking open-ended discussions.
AirLab Summer School 2020
- The goal of this summer school was to get each student started with the basics, broaden their horizon beyond their own research topic, understand the tradeoffs of different approaches in our context (real-time, flying robots, etc.) and make students more “dangerous” with some code/tools that they can use to jump start their research.
- Sessions covered topics in Perception, State Estimation, Action, and Infrastructure. Each session consists of a lecture followed by hands-on exercises.
Communication Skills
On making better research media
- A presentation I made with Mateo Guaman Castro that covers why we should care about the research media we create. We go over principles, tips, tricks, and tools for audio, video, figures, websites, SEO, and social media
Good Research Media Examples
- My collection of research media examples I like from various sources.
Graduate School Applications
Webinar on The Why, What and How of Graduate School Applications
- Are you thinking about attending grad school in computer science or robotics? Ever wondered what makes a strong application? Current faculty and graduate sutdents at CMU address these question and answer live questions during three information sessions.