First up, Falco, circa 2013. We constructed FALCO with wet layups in a basement at UCSD for the AUVSI sUAS competition. Falco was tasked with truly wild tasks like detecting all the alphabetic letters in a field to decode a message and flying over a router to receive a message. 12/10, flew high. - ThreadSky

katherineliu.bsky.social • 99 days ago

First up, Falco, circa 2013. We constructed FALCO with wet layups in a basement at UCSD for the AUVSI sUAS competition. Falco was tasked with truly wild tasks like detecting all the alphabetic letters in a field to decode a message and flying over a router to receive a message. 12/10, flew high.

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katherineliu.bsky.social•99 days ago

TurtleBots, c. 2014. My first time using Linux, in Jorge Cortes’s lab. 13/10, great little robot that contributed to science just by toting around a laptop and spinning around.

katherineliu.bsky.social•99 days ago

EyeRover, c. 2014. An inverted pendulum robot I worked on while an intern at BrainCorp. Super cute, could kind of just roll in a very fun way around but still 10/10.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2014/09/22/171288/robots-that-learn-through-repetition-not-programming/

katherineliu.bsky.social•99 days ago

Small Quadrotors, c. 2015. In my first year of grad school, I took a super fun class that involved writing controllers in MATLAB and uploading them to these small quadrotors. 12/10, survived being crashed into my ceiling as I figured out how to tune gains. http://fast.scripts.mit.edu/dronecontrol/drones/

katherineliu.bsky.social•99 days ago

Large Quadrotors, c. 2015
After joining the Robust Robotics Group at CSAIL/MIT (led by Nick Roy), I worked on quadrotors for the DARPA FLA and NASA SaRUC projects. 14/10, experienced the highest of highs (flying super fast!) and lowest of lows (crashing!). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hRNx_0SWGw

katherineliu.bsky.social•99 days ago

MIT RACECAR, c. 2019. We adopted this platform for some navigation research. 13/10, worked even though for our ICRA experiments we mounted the sensors to a cardboard box. (Speaking of which, I was sad to see that the Intel T265 was discontinued -- that thing was solid.)
https://racecar.mit.edu

katherineliu.bsky.social•99 days ago

Franka Panda, c. 2023 - present. At TRI, I’ve been really excited to explore robot arms. 14/10, can actually interact with the physical world instead of just trying not to crash into things.
https://franka.de

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