Yash Mulgaonkar
Robotics MSE '12; PhD, MEAM '19 - Zoox
Yash is currently a graduate student pursuing a PhD in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics under Dean Vijay Kumar. His interests are focused on low-cost, rapid fabrication methods and embedded design for building micro unmanned aerial vehicles. He has also developed systems for extending the mission life of MAVs for fully autonomous multi-agent persistent aerial missions through task distribution and automated charging. He is particularly interested in SWaP constraints of MAVs and developing swarms of collision resistant robots for use in Search and Rescue type situations. Yash received his Master’s degrees in Robotics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai in India.
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Publications
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
The open vision computer: An integrated sensing and compute system for mobile robots
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Publisher SAGE Publications
Experiments in fast, autonomous, gps-denied quadrotor flight
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fast, autonomous flight in GPS-denied and cluttered environments
Publisher Journal of Field Robotics
Fast, autonomous flight in GPS‐denied and cluttered environments
Publisher Journal of Field Robotics
Robust Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry for Fast Autonomous Flight
Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
A Modular Folded Laminate Robot Capable of Multi Modal Locomotion
Publisher International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)
Robust aerial robot swarms without collision avoidance
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
A scripted printable quadrotor: Rapid design and fabrication of a folded MAV
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Fast autonomous flight with micro unmanned vehicles
Publisher Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop
Initialization-free monocular visual-inertial state estimation with application to autonomous MAVs
Publisher Springer
The flying monkey: A mesoscale robot that can run, fly, and grasp
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Towards fully autonomous visual inspection of dark featureless dam penstocks using MAVs
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Design and fabrication of safe, light-weight, flying robots
Publisher ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE)
Design of small, safe and robust quadrotor swarms
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Devices, systems, and methods for automated monitoring enabling precision agriculture
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
Flying Smartphones: Automated Flight Enabled by Consumer Electronics
Publisher IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
Inspection of penstocks and featureless tunnel-like environments using micro UAVs
Publisher Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Smartphones power flying robots
Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
News
GRASP News
“The Secret to Small Drone Obstacle Avoidance Is to Just Crash Into Stuff” in the IEEE Spectrum
October 31, 2016
Student News
“Tiny Little Multi-Modal Picobug Walks, Flies, Grabs Stuff” on IEEE Spectrum
April 3, 2016
Student News
“Summer at Penn: Coding Flying Robots!”: Quinn Wu on his summer at GRASP Lab in M&T for Life
September 4, 2015
GRASP News
July 9, 2015
Student News
June 2, 2015
GRASP News
October 29, 2014
Student News
September 18, 2014