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Mell-E

Mell-E stands for Mobile Electromechanical Litter Locator – Earth Class. We aim to build a safe, reliable, cloud-based autonomous mobile robot to detect and collect litter in a campus environment. Sponsored in part by CloudMinds this is the Capstone project for the 2016-2017 Masters of Science in Robotic Systems Developement Team C.

Michael Vander Meiden

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Michael Vander Meiden received a bachelors degree of Mechanical Engineering and Economics with a minor in Finance from The University of Miami in 2016.  His many interests include reading, gardening, investing, and entrepreneurship.

Benjamin Kuo

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Benjamin is a tinkerer at heart and has been passionate about robotics since sophomore year of high school. He completed his undergraduate studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he’s excited about changing the world one robot at a time.

Yoga Nadaraajan

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Yoga completed his undergraduate studies in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His main interests are in Computer Vision, Control Systems and Multi Robot Systems.

Kai Li

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Kai Li graduated from Tsinghua University in China, and is now a quick learner in team that want to mainly focus on Computer Vision and other software sides. Kai is passionate about bringing technology with business application.

Nima Rahnemoon

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With a deep passion for building things, Nima is ecstatic about building Mell-E. As the main software engineer on the team, he’s responsible for the data magic that makes Mell-E work.

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