A website about
Christo Aluckal

Projects

I was fortunate to be part of a very dedicated research group during my undergraduate course. Below you can find the major projects that I have been a part of.

Publications

Over the course of my undergraduate course, I have tried giving back to the scientific community in various ways. Below you can find the major publications that I have helped co-author.

PROJECTS



MS Thesis

On-Line Knowledge Distillation for Multi-Environment Reinforcement Learning



Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

A hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) capabilites built around a high-wing trainer model aircraft

Roles

Fabrication Team



“Hex-Wife”, a hex-rotor UAV system

An inexpensive and reliable autonomous Unmanned Aerial System (UAV) capable of performing point-to-point autonomous missions

Roles

Design Head

Communications Operator



“3D Reconstruction of Environment using RGBD Imaging”

A novel method of converting RGBD Images to 3D Maps



“PixTrigger”

An open source tool to trigger cameras and geotag the images using a Pixhawk and Raspberry Pi



“No Permission, No Take-off”

A tool that utilizes the OpenSSL framework to authenticate a digitally signed XML



“Coconut Tree Detection and Localization”

Application for extracting the coordinates of coconut trees from a pre-acquired Orthomosaic and DEM image pair of a location based on Conceptualization of UAV based waypoint generation for Precision Horticulture



“Building Segmentation”

Using an Orthomosaic and DEM/DTM image pair, the system can extract the height and coordinates of all buildings in the region of interest



“AR System using Object Detection, Depth Data and OpenGL”

C++ pipeline that detects objects using YOLOv5 and their distances using Intel Realsense cameras and overlaying a generic 3D model of that object using the OpenGL library

PUBLICATIONS



Generative-Network Based Multimedia Super-Resolution for UAV Remote Sensing

Yash Turkar Christo Aluckal Shaunak De Varsha Turkar Yogesh Agarwadkar
IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022



Dynamic realtime indoor environment mapping for
Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle navigation

Christo Aluckal, Yash Turkar, Yashom Dighe, Sumedh Deshpande, B. K. Mohan, Yogesh Agarwadkar, Sunil Surve, Brijmohan Daga
IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication & Control, 2019



Conceptualization of UAV based waypoint generation for Precision Horticulture

Yash Turkar, Christo Aluckal, Yashom Dighe, Sumedh Deshpande, Yogesh Agarwadkar, InfiCorridor Solutions Pvt. Ltd., India
IEEE International India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2020



Dynamic path planning system for UAV remote sensing in urban environments

Yashom Dighe, Yash Turkar, Christo Aluckal, Yogesh Agarwadkar, Sunil Surve
National Symposium on Innovations in Geospatial Technology for sustainable Development with special emphasis on NER, ISG, ISRS, 2019

About Me

I recently completed my undergraduate degree and have over 3 years of research experience in UAVs and Robotics. I am open to working on most scientific domains but have a keen interest in Robotics and Computer Vision.
Interned at InfiCorridor Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Currently studying at University at Buffalo pursuing a Master's of Science in Computer and Information Systems and working for the DRONESLab research group.