Congratulations to Jayan on his PhD Confirmation 🎉

We’re delighted to congratulate Jayan on successfully passing his PhD confirmation this week!

Jayan’s research focuses on developing novel methods to improve motion capture of human movements, particularly in scenarios involving physical human–robot interaction. His work aims to combine measurements from both robots and external sensors to enable robots to better understand and respond to human partners.

His supervisor, Vincent, shared the following about Jayan’s progress and plans:

On Monday, Jayan presented his plan and early progress toward his PhD. Jayan is working on novel methods to improve motion capture of human movements, specifically during physical–robot interaction. In his work, he intends to leverage both the measurements coming from the robot and from external sensors to improve how robots interact with humans. Jayan plans to use sensor fusion approaches and to leverage vision-based measurements as well as robot kinematics.

So far, Jayan has set up a preliminary approach and experimental evaluation, and he is planning to run human experiments in the coming weeks.
— Dr. Vincent Crocher, PhD Supervisor

We’re excited to see how Jayan’s work will advance safer and more intelligent human–robot interaction.
Congratulations again, Jayan!

Journalist(s): Vincent, Farshad