field robotics lab

Northeastern University’s Field Robotics lab is run under the direction of Professor Hanumant Singh. Our group of students, faculty, and collaborators work on diverse interests including photomosaicking, visual-based navigation, 3D image reconstruction, image segmentation and classification, and chemical sensors. We work with manned submersibles, remotely operated and tethered vehicles, and autonomous underwater vehicles on different aspects of these systems including docking, navigation, manipulation and software for autonomous operations.

Our research continues to take us on expeditions all over the world.

Thank you to our sponsors – ONRNSFNOAA, NASA, AFRL, and others.

CURRENT PERSONNEL

Hanumant Singh

Hanumant Singh

Professor

Hanumant Singh joined Northeastern University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department in January 2016. Hanumant’s interests include system architecture and algorithms for high resolution acoustic, optical, and chemical sensing; underwater vehicles (AUV, ROV, towed and Manned Vehicles); system architectures for navigation, docking and power; and the interactions between these subsystems. Contact Hanumant at ha.singh@northeastern.edu.

Mithun Diddi

Mithun Diddi

PhD Student

Mithun Diddi is a Ph.D candidate at Field Robotics Lab, Institute for Experiential Robotics at Northeastern University. He received his Master’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston in 2018 and Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering from SRM University, India in 2015. Mithun’s research interests include system integration, computer vision, and all-day autonomy. Contact Mithun at diddi.m@northeastern.edu

Pushyami Kaveti

Pushyami Kaveti

PhD Student

Pushyami Kaveti is a PhD candidate at the Field Robotics Laboratory from Khoury College of Computer Sciences. She received her Masters in Computer Science from University of Florida in 2014 and worked at a startup for two years as a computer vision engineer developing calibration algorithms for structured light sensors. Pushyami’s research lies at the intersection of sensor fusion, computer vision and machine learning, focused on achieving long-term autonomy for robot perception in complex and dynamic real-world scenarios. Contact Pushyami at kaveti.p@northeastern.edu

Colin Keil

Colin Keil

PhD Student

Colin Keil completed is B.S. and Masters of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University in 2015 and 2016 respectively. Prior to starting his PhD at Northeastern, he worked at Ultra Motion, an aerospace actuator manufacturer. His main research interests focus on the intersection between code and robotics hardware applied to perception and planning in real-world environments. Colin’s current work focuses on perception for grasping, mobile robot grasping tasks, and haptic-SLAM. Contact Colin at keil.c@northeastern.edu.

Jagatpreet Nir

Jagatpreet Nir

PhD Student

Jagatpreet Nir is a PhD student exploring the area of robotic navigation algorithms. He is interested in discovering new ways to improve accuracy of Visual Inertial Navigation algorithms with bounded computational effort. Before starting his PhD, Jagatpreet worked at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD) as a research associate on non-linear control of multi-fingered robotic hands. He also worked at a mechatronics startup as a design engineer developing motion simulators for driving training. Contact Jagatpreet at nir.j@northeastern.edu.

Zhiyong Zhang

Zhiyong Zhang

PhD Student

Zhiyong Zhang is a second year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering. During his time at Northeastern, he has worked on obstacle avoidance and path planning algorithms for Jetyak, the autonomous surface vessel. He has also worked on fish detection with deep neural networks for machine learning. He recently completed stereo camera online calibration with underwater imagery and is continuing to work on fish stock analysis based on the above research. Contact Zhiyong at zhang.zhiyo@northeastern.edu.

Ayush Garg

Ayush Garg

Master's Student

Ayush Garg is a Master’s student majoring in Robotics with a specialization in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology in 2019. His research interests lie at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and deep learning. He aims to push the current state-of-the-art perception techniques to make them more robust in challenging environments. Contact Ayush at garg.ayu@northeastern.edu.

Arvind Thamil Chelvan

Arvind Thamil Chelvan

Master's Student

Arvind Thamil Chelvan is a Master’s student in Robotics department with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include 3D perception and SLAM for robots in challenging environments. Contact Arvind at thamilchelvan.a@northeastern.edu.

Areeba Aziz Rajput

Areeba Aziz Rajput

Master's Student

Areeba Aziz Rajput earned her Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and is currently a Master’s student in Communications, Control and Signal Processing. She joined the Field Robotics lab in the spring of 2021 to pursue her interest in controls and signal processing research. Contact Areeba at rajput.a@northeastern.edu.

Akshath Singhal

Akshath Singhal

Master's Student

Akshath Singhal is a Master’s student majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering with focus on Hardware and Software in Machine Intelligence. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Delhi Technological University. His research interests include control systems, SLAM, autonomous navigation, and path planning. Contact Akshath at singhal.ak@northeastern.edu.
Curtis Manore

Curtis Manore

Master's Student

Curtis Manore is a Master’s student in the Robotics program. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His research focuses on improving visual inertial odometry in challenging environments for vision navigation. Curtis is a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army attending Northeastern as a Military Research Fellow from MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He aims to pursue a Master’s thesis in vision-based navigation with the Field Robotics Lab. Contact Curtis at manore.c@northeastern.edu.

Aniket Gupta

Aniket Gupta

Master's Student

Aniket Gupta is a Master’s student majoring in Robotics with a minor in Computer Science. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Delhi Technological University in 2021. His research interests include vision based navigation, dynamic obstacle avoidance, path planning, multi-agent collaboration, and swarming systems. Contact Aniket at gupta.anik@northeastern.edu.

Sushant Govindraj

Sushant Govindraj

Master's Student

Sushant Govindraj is a Master’s student in the Robotics program. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Northeastern, he worked at the Indian Institute of Science on a project for the autonomous landing of a UAV on a dynamic platform. He also interned at GreenSight, a Boston startup, as a robotics engineer, where he worked on implementing lightweight perception and machine learning algorithms for quadrotors. His research focuses on robust machine learning and sensor fusion tools to use SLAM and 3-D perception in challenging environments. Contact Sushant at govindraj.s@northeastern.edu

Uday Raghuvanshi

Uday Raghuvanshi

Master's Student

Uday Raghuvanshi is a Master’s student majoring in Robotics with a minor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College in 2021. Prior to Northeastern, he worked at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as a Research Assistant. His research interests include computer vision, sensor fusion, machine learning, and visual-based navigation, with a focus on achieving autonomy in challenging environments. Contact Uday at raghuvanshi.u@northeastern.edu.

Arvinder Singh

Arvinder Singh

Master's Student

Arvinder Singh is a Master’s student majoring in Robotics with a minor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College in 2021. Prior to joining Northeastern, he worked as a Research Assistant at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. His research focuses on the intersection between sensor fusion, computer vision, and deep learning applied to perception and motion planning of autonomous vehicles to achieve Level 5 autonomy. Contact Arvinder at singh.arv@northeastern.edu.

RECENT EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS

 

 

FORMER PERSONNEL

 

Past Postdocs

 

Past Students

 

Past Summer Students

  • Grace Young
  • Alyssa McKenna
  • Emma Kilfoyle
  • Jason Levoy
  • Chris Murphy, Summer Student Fellow, Self-Calibrating Transponder Navigation, 2005
  • Jeffrey Kaeli, Guest Student, Coral Segmentation and Classification, 2005.
  • Zachary Berkowitz, Summer Student Fellow, In-situ Chemical Sensors Underwater, 2004
  • Jordan Pekor, Summer Student Fellow, LED array design for underwater imaging, 2003
  • Nicole Nichols, Summer Minority Trainee, A Design for a Depth Upgrade to SeaBED, 2002 and 2003
  • Rajesh Nadakuditi, Summer Student Fellow, Automated mosaicking of optical imagery, 2000, University of Michigan
  • **Jane Canulette, Summer Student Fellow, Architectural issues in AUV design, 1999
  • Gregory Fries, Summer Student Fellow, Docking for Ocean Sampling Networks, 1998
  • **Lt Erik Burian, USN, Master’s Thesis, Gradient following with ABE, 1996-1997
  • **Frank Weyer, Graduate Student, Stereo imaging with ABE, 1995-1996
  • **Lt Cmdr Phil LeBas, USN, Master’s Thesis, Control of an AUV at low speeds, 1995-1996
  • **Ralf Bachmayer, Undergraduate Thesis, Bottom following with ABE, 1995

*Co-advised with Cabell Davis
**Co-advised with Dana R. Yoerger
***Co-advised with Rob Sohn