Luis Miguel Díaz Pichardo
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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

Links

  • GitHub
  • LinkedIn
  • Email

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