Jessica Brown
About
Hi there! I’m Jess, a senior robotics engineering student at Olin College. I’m interested in using my experience with vision-based policy learning to enhance human-robot interactions. I aim to make adaptive robots that help people learn and grow.
Projects!
TaskSeg: Unsupervised Deep Instruction Tuning for Few Shot Object Segmentation
Fine-tuning text-prompted Segment Anything on unsupervised segmentations of out-of-distribution objects. We generate the unsupervised segmentations using a novel object segmentation method that works on video demonstrations
Beach Power Chair
Designed and fabricated a beach power chair to enable a wheelchair user to access the beach
TanGen: Generating Rock Wall Holds with GANs
Trained a GAN on meshes derived from rock wall hold STL files (sourced from Thingiverse) to generate new holds that we can then 3D print
Generalized Bin Picking Robot
Built an aerial manipulator for a start-up. Wrote software that enables the manipulator to pick up bags in bins, even when the bins are in unknown starting locations
Untiled.png: Tile-flipping Gantry Robot
As my final project in Principles of Integrated Engineering, I designed and programmed a tile-flipping 3-axis gantry system
Amazon Robotics SCOPE
As my senior capstone in engineering at Olin College, I am conducting research with Amazon Robotics that examines how tactile feedback can inform how objects are tossed at targets
Hough Transform Wall Detector
Used the hough transform to perform wall detection in a wall-following simulation
Biomimetic Hopper
Hopping mechanism inspired by the Issus coleoptratus
Trash In the Wild Detection and Classification Pipeline
Used YOLO and the Trash Annotations in Context (TACO) dataset to detect trash in the wild
Policy Gradient and Q-learning Mouse Agents
Trained a policy gradient and Q-learning mouse agent to move toward states containing cookies and cheese and avoid states with salads
Robot Localization Particle Filter
Created a particle filter to help a Neato robot localize itself
KitchenBot
Investigating offline policy stitching using the open-x embodiment dataset