Motion and Teaming Laboratory (Mo-T Lab)

Director

Michael Otte Aerospace Engineering (ENAE), Assistant Professor Computer Science (CMCS), Affiliate Assistant Professor Maryland Robotics Center (MRC), Member Motion and Teaming Laboratory (Mo-T Lab), Director 3179 Glenn L. Martin Hall Bldg {my last name} @umd.edu Mo-T Lab Students and Postdocs Mo-T Lab Alumni Mo-T Lab Facilities and Test Platforms

Ph.D. Candidates

	Mohamed Khalid M. Jaffar Aerospace Engineering (ENAE) Linkedin {last name} 26@umd.edu
	Loy McGuire Aerospace Engineering (ENAE) Linkedin {first initial} {last name} @umd.edu
	Ollie Rodriguez Aerospace Engineering (ENAE)
	Yi-Hsuan Chen Aerospace Engineering (ENAE) Personal Website Linkedin

Ph.D. Students

	Dalan Loudermilk Aerospace Engineering (ENAE) Linkedin {first name} @umd.edu
	Alex Mendelsohn Computer Science (CMCS) {first name} j {last name} @gmail.com
	Rachel Clare Blum Aerospace Engineering (ENAE)

Master's of Science Students

Miles Jones Aerospace Engineering (ENAE)

External Collaborators and Exchange Students

Aditya Savio Paul Collaborator University of Tartu Republic of Estonia Personal Website

Undergraduate Researchers

	Kaitlyn Reidy Aerospace Engineering (ENAE)
	Benjamin Falco Aerospace Engineering (ENAE)
	Sam Schneidereith Aerospace Engineering (ENAE)
	Jolicia Taylor Aerospace Engineering (ENAE)
	Moshe Kashlinsky Aerospace Engineering (ENAE)

High School Student Researchers

We typically have between one and eight high school researchers in the lab, depending on the year and time of year. See our note regarding the on-line privacy of minors.

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Mo-T Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Alumni

• George P. Kontoudis Placement: Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines. Personal Website.

Ph.D. Alumni

• Sharan Nayak (ENAE, 2023), Ph.D. Dissertation: "Fast Feasible Motion Planning Without Two-Point Boundary Value Solution.'' Placement: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX). Linkedin. YouTube.

Master's of Science Alumni

• Alex Mendelsohn (CMCS, 2023), Non-Thesis Option. Placement: Ongoing Ph.D. student in the Mo-T Lab.
• Anshuman Singh (ENSE, 2021, Co-Advised with Huan Xu), M.S. Thesis: "Proof of concept for pair based approach for swarm robotics." Placement: Ulendo Software Solutions for Manufacturing Automation.
• Loy McGuire (ENAE, 2020), M.S. Thesis ``Overcomming local minima through viscoelastic fluid-inspired swarm behavior.'' Placement: Ongoing Ph.D. student in the Mo-T Lab.
• Aditya Savio Paul (University of Tartu, Estonia, 2020, External Co-Advisor), M.S. Thesis: "Autonomous motion planning for spacecrafts near small solar systembodies: simultaneously refining the gravitational field model andre-planning gravity dependant maneuvers." Placement: Tartu Observatory.
• Sharan Nayak (ENAE, 2020), Non-Thesis Option. Placement: Contined on to a Ph.D. in the Mo-T Lab (ENAE, 2023), and now at SpaceX.
• Akshay Vinay Bapat (ENSE, 2020, Co-Advised with Jeffrey Herrmann), M.S. Thesis: "Development of a multi-agent task allocation algorithm for low communication scenarios." Placement: Magna International (Robotics Test Engineer).
• Ryan Ernandis (ENAE, 2020), M.S. Thesis: "Sampling based motion planning for minimizing uncertainty with Stewart platforms." Placement: Astrobotic

Master's of Engineering Alumni

• Alkesh Kumar (M.Eng. Robotics, 2023), Placement: Temple University Ph.D. Program.
• Manas Gupta (M.Eng. Robotics, 2019, Co-Advised with Huan Xu), Placement: Torc Robotics.
• Shivang Patel (M.Eng. Robotics, 2019, Co-Advised with Huan Xu), Placement: University of West Verginia Ph.D. Program.
• Pranav Dhulipala (M.Eng. Robotics, 2019, Co-Advised with Huan Xu), Placement: Microsoft.

Exchange Students Alumni

• Jae-Kyung Cho (Seoul National University)

Undergraduate Alumni

• Marvellous Achugbu
• Jared Allanigue
• Friedrich Alvarez
• James Bollinger
• Samuel Badalov
• Nigel Campbell-Christie (Morgan State University)
• Carolyn Catan
• Andres Christensen
• Charles Demery (Morgan State University)
• Justin DeVito
• Ayomikun Fadina (Capitol Technology University)
• Zachary Friedman-Hill
• Max Harris
• Zachary Hoover
• Neel Godhani
• David Kirkpatrick
• Savya Konkalmatt
• Jordan Kreh
• Brian Lee
• Ryland Lillibridge
• Kevin Lin
• Darius Lukas
• Miles Jones
• Favour Madu
• Paul Motter
• Anish Nandyala
• Hridoy Rozario
• Noah Schultz
• William Sherman
• Leon Stevenson
• Sneha Alicia Sunilkumar
• Mya Thompkins (Morgan State University)
• Tom West
• Hans Yang
• Kevin Yen
• Richard Yu

High School Alumni

• The work done by our 19 previous and ongoing high school interns has been awesome! We error on the side of privacy with respect to listing the names of minors on-line. So, if you were/are a high school intern in the Mo-T Lab and would like to be listed here, and are now old enough to make that decision legally, then let Dr. Otte know and we will be happy to add you! Otherwise, if you are a minor and would like to be listed then please have your parent/legal guardian provide their permission via email to Dr. Otte and we will be happy to add you!

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Facilities and Test Platforms

Indoor UAV Test Space

	Vicon Motion Capture System Safety Nets
	Various UAVs Platforms from: Bitcraze, Parrot, Intel, etc. Custom Platforms

kilobot Swarm Robot Testbed

	200+ robots Overhead Programmer (I/O, Controller) Overhead Light Projector Light Intensity Control Overhead Camera Multi-Robot Charging Station
	Light Intensity Sensor Inferred Communication Vibration Based Locomotion Multicolor LED

Turtlebot3 Team

	6 Turtlebot3 Burger platforms Laser Scanars Stereo Cameras RGB Cameras Custom Actuators
	Gravel and Foam Testbed

Additional Shared Resources

Fearless Flight Facility (F3) Netted Outdoor Flight Facility 100ft wide, 300ft long, and 50ft high Managed by the Dept. Aerospace Engineering

As a member of the Maryland Robotics Center (MRC) the Mo-T Lab and its members also have access to numerous shared facilities and test platforms. Of note are the following: Robotics Realization Lab: additional ground platforms and additional test space. Brin Family Aerial Robotics Lab: additional air platforms and additional indoor flying space. Robotics Manipulator Lab: manipulator platforms and additional test space.