{"id":361,"date":"2026-02-02T13:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/?p=361"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:30:02","slug":"arco-lab-winter-2026-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcolab.mcmaster.ca\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"ARCO Lab Winter 2026 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We had a busy and eventful end of the year here at ARCO Lab! For starters, Professor Giamou was on the Faculty of Engineering’s winning United Way charity bus pull team in September, which achieved a time of 13.93 seconds! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MSc student Alaap Grandhi is spending the fall and winter semesters as a visiting student with the Robotics and Embodied AI Lab (REAL)<\/a>, which is part of Mila (Quebec AI Institute) in Montreal. He is continuing his work on equivariant machine learning while meeting other researchers at Mila and starting exciting new projects!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MASc student Kiran Singh was awarded an Ontario Graduate Fellowship (OGF) to support his research on robust and globally optimal multi-camera extrinsic calibration. Congratulations Kiran!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baoshan Song<\/a>, a PhD candidate from the Intelligent Positioning and Navigation Laboratory (IPNL)<\/a> at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, was our guest for the fall semester. He shared his expertise with global optimization, mobile robots, and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) with ARCO Lab and contributed to Kiran’s calibration project. He also gave a wonderful talk at a seminar in the Department of Computing and Software. You’re welcome back anytime, Baoshan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were also excited to welcome MSc students Julian Cecchini and Daksh Mathur, who are working on sensor fusion and state estimation problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Aliyah Jimoh, Hussein Saad, and Kiran Singh participated in the Department of Computing and Software’s bi-annual poster competition. Their work on sensing infrastructure, magnetic actuation system design, and sensor calibration was well-received and will be featured in upcoming publications (stay tuned). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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