Robotics Master Student,
Ocean Enthusiast
I am a roboticist and mechanical engineer by training and currently work at X, the Moonshot Factory as a Research Scientist on Tidal. I am interested in advancing technologies that give us more visibility into the underwater environment. By leveraging computer vision and robotics I seek to improve the way we use and preserve our oceans resources and, in parallel, explore its undiscovered depths. I studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley where I was an undergraduate researcher in the Computational Marine Mechanics Lab working on wave energy devices. I also spent a semester as a visiting student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in the Deep Submergence Lab, where, under the direction of James Kinsey, I worked with underwater gliders. I earned a masters degree in robotics from the University of Michigan where I conducted research in the Deep Robot Optical Perception lab on several projects including visual odometry, autonomous surface vehicle development, and underwater 3D mapping.
The Semester at WHOI application deadline is comming up on April 30th (2019). I had the opportunity to participated in the program my senior year, working under James Kinsey in the Deep Submergence Lab. It was an incredible experience and would absolutely recommend it to anyone looking to get their feet wet with oceanographic research!
This project details how to use PhotoScan to create 3D reconstruction of underwater imagery. Details can be found here.
Please feel free to contact me if you have and questions or comments, chrobak at umich.edu.