Somebody recently watched this video of my previous research and asked me: “I saw a YouTube video of a project you did, and I’m fascinated with making a drone autonomous. I …
Qualcomm CES 2016 Future of Autonomous Drones
Qualcomm recently published a video of the project that I worked on during my internship at Qualcomm Research. This video shows the capabilities that we integrated into a small drone …
Fix vim keyboard problems in Mac OSX
Getting vim to work correctly on Mac can be pretty useful. touch ~/.vimrc Then open vim and do :set backspace=indent,eol,start
How To: Setup Ubuntu on MacBook Pro 2015
Update: In this post I talk about how to setup an Ubuntu virtual machine on a mac. I recently setup up ubuntu 14.04 LTS on a new 2015 MacBook Pro …
FAQ: Belief Space Planning With OMPL
This page contains answers to some common questions about the belief space planning library based on OMPL that I have developed in my research group based on my own work …
How To: Tips and Tricks in Latex
This page is a collection of tricks I use to get my latex publishing going. How to Shrink Your Paper / Thesis: When you’re submitting papers to conferences or journals, …
Reasons Why You Should Be Thinking of a Career in Robotics
Are you an engineer at that messy point in your life when you’re thinking about the universe and your career. Maybe, you are in high school and thinking of a …
Qualcomm R&D Interview Questions & Experience
I interviewed for a Fall Co-op position at Qualcomm R&D San Diego with a Principal Engineer in their Deep Learning team. The interviewer was obviously a very smart and knowledgeable …
How To: Simulate Laser Scanner (Lidar) on IRobot Create/Roomba in ROS Gazebo
Following up from my previous post, I wanted to simulate an IRobot Create with a hokuyo laser mounted on it. I needed this to get my motion planning simulation up …
How To: Tracking ArUco markers using a USB Webcam and ROS
For my research I needed to setup ROS to use ArUco so that I could track these ArUco markers placed randomly in the environment and localize my robot. Assuming that …