Pascal Sikorski

I'm a Computer and Information Science PhD student in the GRASP lab at the University of Pennsylvania, co-advised by Prof. Vijay Kumar and Prof. George Pappas. I am supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Previously, I was a Computer Science and Mathematics undergraduate Goldwater Scholar at Saint Louis University, working under Prof. Madi Babaiasl at the Mecharithm Lab.

I've been fortunate to collaborate with many great researchers throughout my research career. Previously, I worked with Prof. Joseph Davidson at the Oregon State University Intelligent Machines and Materials Lab on cacheable, safe, robotic crop manipulation. Before that, I worked with Prof. Aaron Ames and Prof. Xiao Tan at the Caltech AMBER Lab on risk-aware control for autonomous navigation.

Feel free to reach out if you are interested in my work or wish to start a chat!

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Research

I'm interested in multi-robot collaboration, human-robot interaction, and game theory for solving real-time group planning and communication problems found within field-robotic applications inheriting uncertainty (including agriculture, human-assistive care). In other words, I'm researching how a mixed human-robot team can coordinate what to tell or ask of one another, when neither the world nor the leader's intent is fully understandable.

An online/offline control system for mobile robots using natural language commands with large language models.

Combines natural language processing, computer vision, and edge computing for a robotic arm to interpret and execute spoken commands.

A transformer model to utilize muscle EMG signals for upper-limb gesture classification.

Incorporates a Belief Control Barrier Function for SLAM systems.

Presents an Adversary is on the Road (AoR) attack for many visual SLAM systems.

Miscellaneous

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