About
ABOUT
Luis Miguel Díaz Pichardo
@Rhobtor
I am a PhD researcher in Robotics and Mechatronics at the University of Málaga, Spain.
My current doctoral research focuses on autonomous navigation for unmanned ground vehicles operating in unknown and unstructured terrain. I develop and evaluate methods spanning robotic perception, 2.5D terrain representation, motion planning and sampling-based predictive control.
An important part of my work is transferring methods from simulation to a real outdoor robot under onboard computation, sensing and communication constraints.
Beyond my current PhD topic, I am broadly interested in robotics, autonomous systems, software, embedded systems and engineering projects that connect research with real-world implementation.
I use Rhobtor as my online nickname for GitHub and technical projects.
Research and technical interests
- Robotics and autonomous systems
- Field robotics
- Autonomous navigation
- Unmanned ground vehicles
- Terrain-aware planning and control
- Robotic perception
- 2.5D elevation mapping
- Motion planning and predictive control
- ROS 2 and robotic software systems
- Embedded GPU deployment
- Search and rescue robotics
- Engineering and software projects