Anton Pollak
MSc Robotics, Systems and Control student at ETH Zurich
https://github.com/acpollCurrent projects
Perception and Learning for Robotics class: Project on improving autonomous navigation for ANYmal quadruped using a gradient-based planner
- Class of Spring 2025 at the Robotic Systems Lab at ETH
Autonomous River Cleanup (ARC): Robotics Engineer Volunteer
- Student project at the Robotic Systems Lab ETH (website)
- Working on the Mobile Autonomous Recycling Container (MARC) with ROS Noetic (robot planning, computer vision, state machine)
Previous projects
Stereofog: Image-to-image machine translation enables computational defogging in real-world images
- Research internship at the University of Utah, USA
- Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- Paper published in Optics Express: DOI
- Further info on Github page: GitHub
- Internal lab presentation: YouTube
Bachelor thesis: Optimized Operation Management With Predicted Filling Levels of the Litter Bins for a Fleet of Autonomous Urban Service Robots
- Within MARBLE (Mobile Autonomous RoBot for Litter Bin Emptying) project at TU Berlin
- Paper published in IEEE Access: DOI
Real-World Robotics class: Construction of a Robotic Hand and Application of Imitation Learning
- Class of Fall 2024 at the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH
- 3 main tasks:
- Hardware design of a robotic hand based on a design provided by the lab
- Execution of teleoperation tasks with the hand mounted on a Franka Emika robotic arm
- Application of Imitation Learning for autonomous cube sorting
- Low-cost high-sensitivity pressure sensors using Force Sensitive Resistors (FSRs)
- Imitation learning using Action Chunking Transformer (ACT) 1
- Code cannot be shared yet due to unpublished research
Vision Algorithms for Mobile Robotics class: Visual Odometry Pipeline Project
- Class of Fall 2024 at the Robotics and Perception Group (RPG) at University of Zurich
- Group bonus project: Design of a visual odometry pipeline (GitHub, Final demo video: YouTube)
- Techniques used: Shi-Tomasi algorithm, SIFT, Kanade-Lucas- Tomasi (KLT) algorithm, RANSAC 2
Robotics Systems class: Chess-playing Robotic Arm
- During exchange semester at the University of Melbourne, Australia
- Construction of a robotic arm to manipulate pieces on a chess board & implementation from scratch in Matlab
- Link to final demo video: YouTube
Used template: https://github.com/plpxsk/primer-template/tree/main
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Image attribution: KITTI dataset ↩