Work

Robotics Research Faculty Assistant

Robotics
Multi-agent Cooperative Transportation

Mobile robots in a lab environment

University of New Mexico | Jul 2024 – Sep 2025 · Albuquerque, NM

I worked as a Robotics Research Faculty Assistant for over year. I focused on developing software written in ROS2 and micro-ROS to enable cooperative transportation between two mobile manipulators using real-time force feedback from force resistive sensors.

What I built

  • Implemented an admittance controller for a PincherX-100 to compute trajectories based on applied forces on the end-effector. Ensured the arm followed smooth trajectories and had a response time above 100Hz.

  • Developed and tuned PID controllers written in C/C++ for wheel control (DC motor) and multi-agent trajectory following, ensuring wheels had stable acceleration and robots independently followed trajectory paths.

  • Designed a manipulator heading alignment algorithm utilizing a Vicon system, enabling cooperative transportation over two-dimensional trajectories. This algorithm was tested and verified in a custom Gazebo simulation replicating the robot dynamics.

Technologies

C/C++, ROS2, micro-ROS, Gazebo, Arduino, Vicon Motion Tracker,