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Santiago Restrepo-Garcia I am a Mechatronics Engineer based in the US. Formerly, I was a Researcher Jr. at Universidad Autonoma de Occidente where I designed and built a heat-press machine for bioplastic materials. Later on, I was a Maintenance Engineer Jr. at the fast-paced tech start-up Kiwibot, where I maintained the mobile delivery fleet at optimal conditions to meet quarters' goals. Previously I obtained my BEng in Mechatronics Engineering at Universidad Autonoma de Occidente, where I worked on mobile robotics using Micro Air Vehicles with the guidance of Victor Romero-Cano at the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Laboratory. Here, I developed CrazyKhoreia, a low-cost image-based path planner for drone light shows in two modes of operation; and 3DBot, a mobile platform for large-scale additive manufacturing. I aspire to converge my career into visual perception for mobile robotics and AI, as it has been my main interest over the past few years. Then, I look forward to develop it further in graduate programmes and research laboratories. |
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ResearchI'm interested in computer vision, machine learning, and mobile robotics. I like to build fully connected robotic pipelines where an agent perceives data from its surroundings and takes real-life action from them. |
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CrazyKhoreia, a robotic perception system for MAV path planning from
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Santiago Restrepo-Garcia, Victor Romero-Cano To be published ... Project page / Pre-print / Video An image-based path planner for Micro-Air Vehicles (MAV) based on traditional computer vision algorithms. CrazyKhoreia works as a Python package in two modes of operation where both of them feed from a digital image and output a .csv file. The light-painting mode generates an apparently continuous flight trajectory for long-exposure photography, whereas the multi-drone formation mode coordinates an MAV swarm into calculated positions to resemble the original image. |
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3DBot, a mobile robot for large-scale additive manufacturing
Oscar D. Diaz-Santos, Diana S. Villaraga, Santiago Restrepo-Garcia Project page / Video 3DBot is a robotic mobile platform designed from scratch for large-scale additive manufacturing. This robot uses omnidirectional wheels to move freely at any direction, this allows the extruder to have virtually unlimited space across the X and Y axis, while the Z axis is limited by the height of the vertical column. As a fun fact, an early prototype of CrazyKhoreia allowed 3DBot to draw cartoons on a whiteboard using a marker. |
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