Patrick Bouffard

Patrick Bouffard () Ph.D. Candidate Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Advisor: Professor Claire Tomlin

About

I'm a graduate student at UC Berkeley, pursuing a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. I work with my research advisor, Professor Claire Tomlin, in the Hybrid Systems Lab. My research interests include robotics, control, perception, motion planning, and artificial intelligence. Most of my research work involves the use of the Stanford/Berkeley Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control (STARMAC), a set of quadrotor helicopters and associated hardware and software.

Between receiving my undergraduate degree and returning to school to pursue a doctorate, I worked in the aerospace industry. Specifically, I worked in the Controls, Operations & Analysis department of MDA Space Missions, on the Mobile Servicing System (MSS), which is a system on the International Space Station (ISS) comprised of elements including the Canadarm2 and Dextre robotic manipulators. My work included conducting analyses to ensure that planned space station assembly operations using Canadarm2 would be safe and successful, providing real-time engineering support during Space Shuttle missions to the ISS, and training astronauts and flight controllers on the systems of the MSS.

Contact

7th Floor Sutardja Dai Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1772
bouffard@eecs.berkeley.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 2009 - present

• B.Sc. (Hons) (First class), Mathematics and Engineering, Queen's University, 1999

Publications

@inproceedings{Aswani_ACC2012,
address = {Montreal, Canada},
author = {Aswani, Anil and Bouffard, Patrick and Tomlin, Claire},
booktitle = {ACC 2012, to appear},
title = Extensions of Learning\-Based Model Predictive Control for Real\-Time Application to a Quadrotor Helicopter,
year = {2012},
month = jun
}

@inproceedings{Bouffard_ICRA2012,
address = {Saint Paul, MN, USA},
author = {Bouffard, Patrick and Aswani, Anil and Tomlin, Claire},
booktitle = {ICRA 2012, to appear},
title = Learning\-Based Model Predictive Control on a Quadrotor: Onboard Implementation and Experimental Results,
year = {2012},
month = may
}

@inproceedings{Brockers_SPIE2011,
author = {Brockers, Roland and Bouffard, Patrick and Ma, Jeremy and Matthies, Larry and Tomlin, Claire},
booktitle = {Proceedings of SPIE 8031},
doi = {10.1117/12.884449},
pages = {803111--803111--12},
title = Autonomous landing and ingress of micro\-air\-vehicles in urban environments based on monocular vision,
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.884449},
volume = {8031},
year = {2011}
}

@inproceedings{Bouffard2009,
address = {St. Louis, MO, USA},
author = {Bouffard, PM and Waslander, SL},
booktitle = {Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles (PPNIV)},
month = oct,
pages = {63-68},
title = A Hybrid Randomized\/Nonlinear Programming Technique For Small Aerial Vehicle Trajectory Planning in 3D,
year = {2009}
}

Teaching

• Fall 2011: Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) for EE221A Linear System Theory

Professional Service

• Reviewer, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

• Reviewer, 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Software

starmac-ros-pkg

A repository of ROS stacks for quadrotors (ros wiki page)

pgr_camera

A ROS driver node for interfacing with Point Grey Research cameras (github)

Misc

• Thanks to Jacob Mattingly for jemdoc and his homepage which was the basis for this one.