Yes, I work on robots ... but what exactly do I do all day? Well, here's one thing:
This is a test I did today to make sure the navigation software I've written for our robots could handle a variety of dynamic obstacles and trap situations. The robot is told to navigate through a series of way points around my lab, and along the way I ambush it with boxes and try to confuse it =) It eventually succeeds in making it back to my desk.
Navigation and obstacle avoidance are foundational requirements for the rest of my work, so this is actually what I started with several years ago. What I do now involves multiple robots moving around our lab, achieving a complex task through communication and team work without a leader or other central decision maker. More on that some other time.
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