Hello!

Hello, I am Arghya Chatterjee. I am a PhD student in Intelligent Systems and Robotics at UWF and working as a Graduate Research Assistant at IHMC. I have completed my BSc. in Mechanical Engineering (Robotics Major) from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). Currently, my research works are focused towards Humanoid Perception, specifically Deep Learning based Object Detection, Segmentation & 6DoF Pose Estimation for Autonomous Robotic Manipulation, 3D Camera & Lidar based SLAM for Autonomous Robot Navigation, Perceptive Locomotion for Traversability Learning over challenging terrain and Multi-Agent Mapping & Exploration in a Perceptually Degraded Environment.

● Currently Working:
Humanoid Platforms: NASA Valkyrie, DARPA Robotics Challenge Atlas from Boston Dynamics, IHMC developed Nadia.
Quadruped Platforms: MIT Mini-Chetaah
Wheeled Platforms: Clearpath Husky

● Previously Worked:
Quadruped Platforms: DARPA SubT Challenge Boston Dynamics Spot & ANYmal
Wheeled Platforms: DARPA Polaris Rover, University Mars Rover, Clearpath Husky, Lawn Mowers, Security & Surveillance Bot and Line Follower Robot
Aerial Platforms: Astrobee of International Space Station, 8-armed drone.

I have worked as an advisor and robotics engineer at Lotus Robotics. I am also one of the educators from Bangladesh and Team supervisor from BUET (part-time) at STEMX 365 for JAXA (& NASA) organized Kibo-Astrobee ISS Robot Programming Challenge. I have served as a team member of Team CoSTAR at NASA JPL in the perception group for DARPA organized SubT Challenge. I served as a Graduate Research Assistant in BUET at Mars Rover Lab under Dr. Ashikur Rahman. As a part of my work, I supervised BUET Mars Rover Team Team Interplanetar in European Space Foundation organized (& ESA patronized) European Rover Challenge (ERC) & The Mars Society organized University Rover Challenge (URC). I have some previous experience of participating in International Space related Robotics Competition (European Rover Challenge - 2019) as a Software Team Lead in the year 2019.

My work will serve the following purposes:
● Ensure safe single agent Humanoid autonomy with traversability assessment over challenging terrain.
● Ensure automatic manipulation with Humanoids of objects of interest after detection and 6DOF pose estimation.
● Ensure collaborative autonomous multi-agent navigation system with Humanoids, Quadrupeds, Wheeled Rovers and Aerial Robots to facilitate safe exploration with Advanced Perception (Vision & Lidar), Simultaneous & Mapping, Path Planning and Object Detection & Localization inside cave & mineral ores on Earth, Moon & Mars.
● Ensure reliable autonomous multi-agent collaboration & maneuvering for space satellites like Astrobee to autonomously navigate inside International Space Station and UAVs like Drones to autonomously distribute flood reliefs to humans in perceptually degraded environments.