Chris Thierauf, PhD

Ocean Robotics and Autonomy Researcher

I’m a Research Engineer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

My research focus is on autonomous, intelligent partners for scientific exploration of challenging domains.

I also support scientific research by participating in deployments of the Sentry AUV.

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I’ve updated my primer on symbolic planning and logics.
- A gentle introduction to symbolic planning and reasoning
- Also includes some runnable python to demonstrate the concepts.
IEEE/MTS OCEANS. Two papers presented:
- Autonomous decision making on AUV Sentry.
- Depth-triggered mechanical fuses.
ICDL. Matthias Scheutz, director of the Tufts HRILab, presented:
- Generating RL simulation environments through visual observations to solve robot novelties.