PhD Student

Aiden Swann

PhD Student

Aiden is a Ph.D. student in the ARMLab in Mechanical Engineering and a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship. Broadly his research interests are dextrous manipulation, neural object state representations, and next-generation optical touch sensors for robotics. Aiden previously conducted research on safety-critical control for high-speed quadcopters in the AMBER lab at Caltech. Outside of research, Aiden loves camping, running, and watching F1.

Education

Phd Stanford Mechanical Engineering 2023-present

B.S Caltech Mechanical Engineering 2023

Research

Tactile Sensing for Dexterous Robot Manipulation

Contact

Links

Website

Publications

Chen, T., Swann, A., Yu, J. ., Shorinwa, O., Murai, R., Kennedy, M., & Schwager, M. (2024). SAFER-Splat: A Control Barrier Function for Safe Navigation with Online Gaussian Splatting Maps. Arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09868
Tucker, J., Shorinwa, O. ., Chen, T., Firoozi, R., Smith, A., Swann, A., Kennedy, M., & Schwager, M. (2024). Splat-MOVER: Multi-Stage, Open-Vocabulary Robotic Manipulation via Editable Gaussian Splatting. Arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04378
Swann, A., Strong, M., Do, W. K., Camps, G., Schwager, M., & Kennedy, M. (2024). Touch-GS: Visual-Tactile Supervised 3D Gaussian Splatting. Arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09875