For Dr.Diller

I am Vigaash, a student from Toronto

I want to express my interest in the field of Patterned Magnetization and its applications in micro-scale robots.

I recently read your publication "Millimeter-scale flexible robots with programmable three-dimensional magnetization and motions", and was intrigued about the possibilities of this research. Particularly, the usage of alternating discrete magnetization to allow paddle-crawling motion in a multi-legged robot was really fascinating.

For Dr.Barfoot

I am Vigaash, a student from Toronto

I want to express my interest in the field of Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) lidar and its applications in robotics.

I recently read your publication "Towards Fast Correspondence-Free Odometry Using Multiple FMCW Lidars", and was intrigued by the possibilities of this research. Particularly, the concept of using a gyroscope to measure angular velocity was quite fascinating. This whole field also provides a whole new scope for all things autonomous.

For Dr.Rhinehart

I am Vigaash, a student from Toronto

I want to express my interest in the field of Deep Residual Model Predictive Control and its applications in robotics.

I recently read your publication "DR-MPC: Deep Residual Model Predictive Control for Real-world Social Navigation", and was intrigued about the possibilities of this research. Particularly, the usage of MPC-path-tracking in addition to using real-world interaction instead of pure reinforcement learning was very fascinating.

For Dr.Waslander

I am Vigaash, a student from Toronto

I want to express my interest in the field of LiDAR-based multi-object end-to-end tracking and its applications in autonomous robotics.

I recently read your publication "JDT3D: Addressing the Gaps in LiDAR-Based Tracking-by-Attention", and was intrigued by the possibilities of this research. Particularly, the usage of the Tracking Sampling Augmentation method that allows for temporal consistency was very fascinating.

For Dr.Kelly

I am Vigaash, a student from Toronto

I want to express my interest in the field of Anomaly Segmentation and its applications in various areas of Robotics.

I recently read your publication "FlowCLAS: Enhancing Normalizing Flow Via Contrastive Learning For Anomaly Segmentation", and was intrigued about the possibilities of this research. Particularly, the usage of latent-space separation with contrastive loss to find anomalies without pixel-level inlier class labels or segmentation masks was very fascinating.

For Dr.Burgner-Kahrs

I am Vigaash, a student from Toronto

I want to express my interest in the field of Active State Estimation and its applications in multiple areas of Robotics.

I recently read your publication "Sliding Sensors: Configurable Confidence in State Estimation for Continuum Robots", and was intrigued by the possibilities of this research. Particularly, the usage of longitudinal translation to achieve uncertainty shaping and how it forged a better full-body shape estimation was very fascinating.