Darren Chiu

Robotics @ USC

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Los Angeles, CA, 90007

I am a second year PhD student at the University of Southern California (USC) advised by Professor Gaurav Sukhatme with the Robotic and Embedded Systems Lab (RESL). Previously, I completed my bachelors at Princeton University studying Electrical and Computer Engineering with two minors in Applications of Computing and Robotics & Intelligence Systems. At Princeton, I studied swarm robotics in the Self Organizing Robotics Lab with Professor Radhika Nagpal and was a visiting researcher at the University of Groningen with Professor Bahar Haghighat. In the past, I’ve spent Summers as an avionics intern at SpaceX and Blue Origin working in the radiation effects testing field. I’m also an avid coffee enthusiast and shrimp parent.

research interests

I am generally interested in the field of robotics and autonomous systems. My research focus is in imagining the combination of hardware and algorithmic approaches for autonomous systems for space exploration. I have experience in robotic simulation, hardware design, and implementation where I want to work towards bringing both sides closer - through novel hardware or better integrated algorithms. I currently work on applying event based vision for resource constrained robotic systems. Please reach out to me if you are interested in collaborating!

news

Jan 29, 2024 Our paper was accepted at ICRA2024.
Aug 01, 2023 I began my PhD at USC with the Robotic Embedded Systems Lab

publications

  1. Collective Bayesian Decision-Making in a Swarm of Miniaturized Robots for Surface Inspection
    Thiemen Siemensma ,  Darren Chiu ,  Sneha Ramshanker , and 2 more authors
    In Swarm Intelligence , 2024
  2. Optimization and Evaluation of a Multi Robot Surface Inspection Task Through Particle Swarm Optimization
    Darren Chiu ,  Radhika Nagpal ,  and  Bahar Haghighat
    In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , 2024