Thomas Power
2140 FRB
2505 Hayward St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
I’m a PhD student in Robotics at the University of Michigan. I work at the ARM lab, advised by Dmitry Berenson. I previously interned at Honda Research Institute USA. I received my MEng in mechanical engineering from Imperial College London in 2016.
I am interested in applying tools from planning, trajectory optimization, and machine learning to robot manipulation problems. During my PhD, I have developed algorithms using the planning-as-inference paradigm and deep generative models to accelerate trajectory optimization.
news
Jun 09, 2024 | Our paper on optimizing diverse sets of constraint-satisfying trajectories was accepted to T-RO! |
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Jun 03, 2024 | I successfully defended my Ph.D.! |
Feb 05, 2024 | Our paper on learning sampling distributions for sample-based MPC using Normalizing Flows was accepted to T-RO! |
Dec 21, 2023 | I am excited to be on the scientific committee for the Back to the Future: Robot Learning Going Probabilistic workshop at ICRA 2024 |
Oct 01, 2023 | Our Differentiable Probabilistic Robotics workshop at IROS 2023 in Detroit was attended by over 200 registrants! |