Nicolaj Andreas Schmid

Contact

EPFL ENAC IIE DISAL

GR A2 455 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
CH-1015 Lausanne

Phone: +41 21 693 91 40

[email protected]

Short Biography

I am currently a Ph.D. student at DISAL working on gas source localization and gas distribution mapping. In 2024, I completed my Master’s degree in robotics at EPFL, focusing especially on mobile robotics. For my master’s thesis, I spent 6 months at the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at ETHZ working on mapping using low-cost sensors and a NeRF based approach. My journey into the world of science and technology started with my Bachelor degree in Microengineering at EPFL in 2020.

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Research interests and projects

I am very passionate about sensing, mapping, controlling and optimal decision making in mobile robotics. Thanks to my Ph.D., I can apply these interests to gas source localization and gas distribution mapping while extending them to multi-robot systems.

Publications

  • VIRUS-NeRF – Vision, InfraRed and UltraSonic based Neural Radiance Fields. Schmid, N., von Einem, C., Cadena, C., Siegwart, R., Hruby, L., & Tschopp, F. In press with IROS 2024 (see ArXiv).
  • On identifying the non-linear dynamics of a hovercraft using an end-to-end deep learning approach. Schwan, R., Schmid, N., Chassaing, E., Samaha, K., & Jones, C. N., In press with SYSID 2024.