Faculty at @JohnsHopkins @jhumeche working on spacecraft robotic autonomy.
Joined November 2018
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Abhishek Cauligi retweeted
Long-overdue update: Earlier this summer, I started a faculty position @JHUCompSci
We're fortunate to have recruited a cohort of incredibly strong students to come work w/ me and other faculty at Hopkins (CS and beyond)
sciphylab.org/
Abhishek Cauligi retweeted
Notes and initial reactions to Inkling, the best American neolab release so far:
Today, we are introducing Inkling.
Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available.
thinkingmachines.ai/news/int…
Available today for fine-tuning on Tinker. Play with it in the Inkling Playground. 🧵
Abhishek Cauligi retweeted
🚀 First demonstration of learning-accelerated trajectory optimization in space! Our team used a neural network to warm-start trajectory optimization for the @NASA's Astrobee free-flying robot on-board the @Space_Station, cutting solver iterations by up to 60% while maintaining safety constraints.
🎥 Video: youtu.be/NVDMd88XFhs
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.05588
📅 Submitted to iSpaRo 2025
With @SomritaBanerjee and @ACauligi
Incredibly excited to announce that I will be joining @jhumeche as an assistant professor in summer 2025!
My lab will be focusing on safe and autonomous decision making for spacecraft robotic systems 🚀🛰️🤖
As I start this next chapter of my career, very grateful for the guidance and support of my mentors (@drmapavone, Mark Cutkosky, @b_stellato, @masahiro_ono, and many others!) and my friends and family without whom this wouldn't be possible!
Finally, I'm recruiting students to join my lab in the Fall of 2025! If you're interested in building robots and systems for advancing space exploration, then please apply to @jhumeche and don't hesitate to reach out! You can check out my research at acauligi.github.io
I passed my dissertation defense this past Friday! Thanks to everyone who could join!
Congratulations to ASLer Abhishek Cauligi for successfully defending his PhD thesis today! @ACauligi's work demonstrates how data-driven approaches can accelerate Mixed Integer Convex Programming. This enables high-quality real-time control of space robots!
Abhishek Cauligi retweeted
Women’s Shelter Trailer Stolen - Please Help! gofund.me/4cfef4a6
Check out our recent ISS experiments testing the use of gecko-inspired adhesive grippers with the Astrobee robot! Thanks for the help @Astro_Kate7 and @AstroVicGlover! Work with @Tony_G_Chen, @bdmlstanford, @StanfordASL, and @MarcoPavoneSU
Friends in high places.
Stanford researchers sent a robotic gripper, which mimics Gecko feet and could be well-suited for cleaning up space junk, to the International @Space_Station for testing. On board to help: Stanford alumna and @NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, PhD ’06.
Abhishek Cauligi retweeted
Thanks astronaut @AstroVicGlover for testing our gripper on the International Space Station! @ACauligi @StanfordASL @bdmlstanford
Excited to announce that our work on using learning to quickly solve mixed integer convex programs for robot control was accepted to #CDC2020! Work with @pdculbert, @b_stellato, @dbertsim, Mac Schwager, and @MarcoPavoneSU. Check it out here at: arxiv.org/abs/2004.03736
You can find the Julia version of our code at: github.com/StanfordASL/mlopt… (with a Python release coming soon!)
Abhishek Cauligi retweeted
Wanna solve combinatorial optimization for robot control very fast? Check out our work with @ACauligi, @pdculbert, @dbertsim, MSchwager, @MarcoPavoneSU @StanfordAILab! arxiv.org/abs/2004.03736 We extended our work with @dbertsim (MLOPT) to learn fast optimizers for robotic tasks
Abhishek Cauligi retweeted
A lot of us @StanfordEng spend a lot of time at Bytes and Coupa. The employees there are hourly, and with Stanford’s effective shutdown, their hours are being cut or people are being let go.
This fundraiser is to help them with financial assistance:
gf.me/u/xq8azp
Excited to have been able to share our group's work on the Astrobee project with NASA administrator @JimBridenstine! Thanks again to NASA for inviting us to participate on Tech Day on the Hill.
A project I worked on is on its way to the ISS! Congrats to all of the project members from @StanfordASL and @bdmlstanford!
Dragon is on its way to the International Space Station; capture by the @Space_Station crew set for Saturday
Abhishek Cauligi retweeted
We're excited to announce that ASL is going to space! Working with our collaborators at @bdmlstanford, we verified the safety of our flight-qualified gecko gripper for the ISS Astrobee robot during EMI and acoustic testing at @NASAJohnson! Stay tuned for more!
