Hi! I am Andrea, and I am a graduate student at the Aerospace Controls Lab. (ACL) , part of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT .
My research interests lie at the intersection of learning, sensing and control for autonomous systems. My current goal is to reduce the gap between flying animals and engineered aerial robots by developing data-driven, dynamics-informed and computationally efficient algorithms that enable agile flight under uncertainty, either due to disturbances, lack of data, or model errors. I am grateful to be funded by the AFOSR NISC MURI , where I work in collaboration with a team of biologists , nuroscientists , engi
Prior to MIT, I spent one year as a robotic engineer affiliate at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Caltech in Pasadena, CA. I was member of the JPL/Caltech/MIT team for the Darpa Subterranean Challenge . My work focused on state estimation and localization in subterranean environments, and I worked on a lidar-inertial odometry algorithm.