About Us



Welcome to the Perception and Autonomous Robotics Group (PeAR)'s website. PeAR is led by Prof. Nitin J. Sanket. Our lab was founded in 2022 and our home is the Robotics Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Our mission is to tackle fundamental problems in robot perception and autonomy to enable better life. We work on pushing the boundaries of autonomy at extreme resource constrained tiny robots using only on-board computation and sensing. In-particular we work on navigation of nano-drones (and other robots) using only cameras and inertial sensors and onboard computation without the need for external infrastructure such as GPS or motion capture systems. We call our approach to autonomy as Minimal-AI due to the nature of its design and its efficiency in solving the desired tasks. We utilize concepts from Active Perception, Interactive Perception, Passive and Novel computing and Deep Compression.





Prof. Nitin J. Sanket

Professor

Manoj Velmurugan

Ph.D. Student

Deepak Singh

Ph.D. Student

William Babincsak

Ph.D. Student
With Prof. Carlo Pinciroli

Rishabh Singh

Masters Student

Kushagra Srivastava

Masters Student

Rutwik Kulkarni

Masters Student

Ashwin Disa

Masters Student

Philip Brush

Masters Student

Colin Balfour

Undergraduate Student

Aashi Goel

Undergraduate Student

Sukriti Kushwaha

Undergraduate Student

Vivek Voleti

Undergraduate Student

Jacob Ellington

Undergraduate Student

Myrrh Khan

Undergraduate Student

Istan Slamet

Undergraduate Student

Albert Lewis

Undergraduate Student

Sebastian Baldini

Undergraduate Student

Enrique Pohl

Undergraduate Student


Our alumni can be found here.



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