Chris Thierauf, PhD
Ocean Robotics and Autonomy Researcher
I’m a Research Engineer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
I research autonomous partners for scientific exploration of challenging domains. I mostly work with and help deploy the full-ocean depth Sentry AUV.
I’m currently at-sea. Expect email delays.
Recent Projects
Symbolic Planning: A gentle introduction
An introduction to symbolic planning, AI, and formal logics. Aimed at grad students/professionals, or advanced undergraduates. Also, some code for you.
ICDL
Matthias Scheutz (director of the Tufts HRILab) presented our work on generating RL simulations to help robots solve novelties.