PEOPLE

Karl Iagnemma, Principal Research Scientist
email: kdi [at] mit [dot] edu

Principal Investigator, Robotic Mobility Group
Department of Mechanical Engineering
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 3-435a
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Office phone: 617 452 3262
Fax: 617 258 5802

Karl's Bio
Karl's CV
Karl's Fiction

Genya Ishigami, Postdoctoral Associate
email: ishigami [at] mit [dot] edu

Genya Ishigami is a postdoctoral associate in the Mechanical Engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his B.S., M.S, and Ph.D. degrees from Tohoku University, JAPAN, in 2003, 2005, and 2008, respectively.

His research interests include terramechanics, path/motion planning, path-following control, dynamics and kinematics for mobility analysis, for the application to lunar/planetary exploration rovers, rescue robotics, and field robotics.

Genya's CV

Sterling Anderson, MS Student
email: ster [at] mit [dot] edu

Sterling is a Masters Candidate and National Defense Science and Engineering Fellow. He is currently applying Model Predictive Control to autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle navigation schemes. He is on the executive board of MIT's Science and Engineering Business Club and is also working with Scalable Display Technologies to develop a market-launch strategy for their disruptive technology. He spends his off time with his wife and their new daughter.

Sterling's résumé

Chris Brooks, PhD Student
email: cabrooks [at] mit [dot] edu

Chris is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Mechanical Engineering department. He received a B.S. degree with honor in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech in 2000, and an M.S. degree from MIT in 2004. His research interests include mobile robot control, terrain sensing, and their application to improving autonomous robot mobility.

Nadia Cheng, MS Student
email: ncheng [at] mit [dot] edu

Nadia Cheng received her Bachelor’s degree in 2007 in Aerospace Engineering from University of California, San Diego.  She is a Masters candidate and a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow.  Nadia is currently doing research in compliant mechanism design for SQUISHbot, a slug-inspired robot.

Gaurav Kewlani, MS Student
email: gkewlani [at] mit [dot] edu

Gaurav Kewlani is an S.M. student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at M.I.T. and is the recipient of the Edward H. Linde Presidential Fellowship. He received his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His research interests include design and dynamics of mechanical systems and he is currently working on efficient mobility prediction of mobile robotic systems.

Steven Peters, PhD Student
email: scpeters [at] mit [dot] edu

Steve received his B.S. from UC Davis in 2004 and an M.S. from MIT in 2006, both in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include improving energy and transportation technology. He's a member of the MIT Energy Club and co-founder of the MIT Energy Map.

His current research is related to planning and control techniques for mobile robots operating at high speed on sloped and rough terrain. He's looking forward to enrolling in a training class for extreme driving to further his research.

Martin Udengaard, PhD Student
email: mru [at] mit [dot] edu

Martin is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow who earned degrees in physics and mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include utilizing robots for exploration and medical applications. His current research is the design and control of high-speed omnidirectional mobile robots for rough terrain.