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Yash Mulgaonkar

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

The Tiercel: A Novel Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicle That Can Map the Environment by Flying into Obstacles

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)

Experiments in fast, autonomous, gps-denied quadrotor flight

Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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 swarm of flying smartphones

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

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

Smartphones power flying robots

Publisher IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Vijay Kumar

Nemirovsky Family Dean, SEAS


Yash Mulgaonkar