After graduating in December 2010 I had 6 months to spend before starting grad school, so I went on an extended internship with TRACLabs in Houston, TX. TRACLabs is a small company that does automation and robotics research and development work for NASA and the Defense Department.
My work centered on developing and using TRACBot, a powered wheelchair – based development robot. During the spring and summer Patrick, Mars, Bryn, and I significantly upgraded TRACBot from
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I worked on a number of projects over the spring and summer, here are some highlight videos:
Beat-Based Gestures with Brown University
Leader Following
Wounded Soldier Extraction
And some pictures:
