Hi, I’m Cherie! I’m a third-year PhD Student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Sebastian Scherer. I am part of the Air Lab and the Field Robotics Center. I did my undergrad at Harvey Mudd College, where I worked with Chris Clark on shark-tracking underwater robots. I am currently supported by the Croucher Foundation.

My research interest is in the intersection of field robotics, control theory and machine learning towards the goal of bringing robots to uncertain safety-critical environments. Specifically, I’m interested in developing robot learning and control algorithms that provide theoretical safety guarantees whilst deployed in the field.

CV / Google Scholar

Selected News

  • Aug 2020 Excited to give an invited talk at UIUC’s ACRL Lab.
  • Jul 2020 Mohammadreza and I gave a tutorial session on “Guaranteeing Safety in the Real World”. Watch our talk here! Play with control barrier functions here!
  • Dec 2019 Our journal paper on Autonomous Aerial Cinematography was accepted to the Journal of Field Robotics.
  • May 2019 I was awarded the Croucher Foundation Scholarship for the next two years!

Publications

Under Review
Adaptive Tube Library for Safe Online Planning Under Unknown Tracking Performance
Cherie Ho, Jay Patrikar, Rogerio Bonatti, Sebastian Scherer
In Submission, 2020
[Video]
Journals
Autonomous Aerial Cinematography Among Unstructured Environments With Online Artistic Decision-Making
Rogerio Bonatti, Wenshan Wang, Cherie Ho, Aayush Ahuja, Mirko Gschwindt, Efe Camci, Erdal Kayacan, Sanjiban Choudhury, Sebastian Scherer
Journal of Field Robotics, 2019
[PDF] [Video]
Peer-reviewed Conferences
Towards a Robust Aerial Cinematography Platform: Localizing and Tracking Moving Targets in Unstructured Environments
Rogerio Bonatti, Cherie Ho, Wenshan Wang, Sanjiban Choudhury, Sebastian Scherer
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
[PDF] [Video]
Predicting coordinated group movements of sharks with limited observations using AUVs
Cherie Ho, Kimberly Joly, Andrew P Nosal, Christopher G Lowe, Christopher M Clark
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2017
[PDF]
Workshops
Adaptive Tube Library for Safe Online Planning Under Unknown Tracking Performance
Cherie Ho, Jay Patrikar, Rogerio Bonatti, Sebastian Scherer
RSS Workshop on Robust Autonomy, 2020
[PDF][Video]
“Provably Safe” in the Wild: Testing Control Barrier Functions on a Vision-Based Quadrotor in an Outdoor Environment
Cherie Ho*, Katherine Shih*, Jaskaran Singh Grover, Changliu Liu, Sebastian Scherer
RSS Workshop on Robust Autonomy, 2020
[PDF][Video][Code]
Autonomous Aerial Cinematography Among Unstructured Environments With Online Artistic Decision-Making
Best Paper Finalist
Rogerio Bonatti, Wenshan Wang, Cherie Ho, Aayush Ahuja, Mirko Gschwindt, Efe Camci, Erdal Kayacan, Sanjiban Choudhury, Sebastian Scherer
IROS Workshop on Vision-based Drone Navigation, 2019
[PDF]
Learning Reactive Flight Control Policies: From LIDAR Measurements to Actions
Spotlight Talk
Sam Zeng, Vaibhav Viswanathan, Cherie Ho and Sebastian Scherer
NeurIPS Workshop on Imitation Learning and its Challenges in Robotics, 2018
[PDF]

Honors & Awards

  • 2019-2021 Croucher Scholarship for Doctoral Study (Full Scholarship)
  • 2019 Best Paper Finalist, IROS Vision-based Drones Workshop
  • 2018 HMC INQ Inaugural Class (Harvey Mudd Startup Incubator)
  • 2017 Harvey Mudd College Johnson Excellence in Engineering Award
  • 2017 Harvey Mudd College Engineering Departmental Honors
  • 2016 University of Southern California Wrigley Institute Graduate Summer Fellowship (as an undergraduate)
  • 2014 - 2017 Jude and Eileen Laspa Fellowship in Autonomous Systems
  • 2015 First Place, MuddHacks (Gesture-controlled helicopter)