Cultivating a Culture of Entrepreneurial Mindset and Undergraduate Research

Dr. Sam Siewert

Research Interests:

  • Computer Vision
  • Robotics and Machine Learning
  • Sensor Fusion 

CURE-E Course: Robotics & Machine Intelligence (CSCI 585), S. Siewert, Fall 2024

Project Title: Robotic navigation with passive and active sensors

Human – robot teaming has been researched by organizations such as AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence) and is a research topic for graduate studies at many top research focused universities our students might go on to attend in the future.  CSU Chico has a mechatronics, an industrial automation, and computer science majors in our college, but true human – robot tasking requires interdisciplinary teams of students from two or of these majors to take on an ambitious goal like demonstrating how human - robot teaming can solve a real-world problem. The huge challenge is broken down in this course into minimum, target, and optimal technology goals for robot navigation and interaction to achieve an autonomous or semi-autonomous task using ROS (Robot Operating System) and practices learned prior to the Exercise #5 proposal that includes a specific CURE-E human – robot teaming goal the student must state clearly and support with results.  Given the constraints of six weeks to work on the CURE-E goal they are not expected to fully achieve the human – robot teaming goal (although that might be possible), but they all must show how demonstratable technology they develop can be used to achieve the CURE-E goal with more time and resources.

Portrait of Dr. Sam Siewert