Stephen Welch

About Me

I'm an MS student at Virginia Tech studying the intersection of control theory and deep reinforcement learning at the Terrestrial Robotics and Controls Lab.
Currently I'm interning at Apptronik deploying reinforcement learning on humanoid robots.
Previously I interned at Shield AI helping build AI systems for manuever.
For my undergraduate studies, I majored in Controls, Robotics & Autonomy with a degree in Computer Engineering.



▶Apollo Humanoid Robot
Deploying reinforcement learning on humanoid robots
▶Air Combat Evolution
Autonomous air-to-air combat using reinforcement learning
▶Golden Horde
Defeating air defense systems using expert systems and reinforcement learning
▶PANDORA
A 6ft-tall 3D-printed humanoid robot designed and built in-house
▶Deep RL for Force Control
A novel force controller for linear series-elastic actuators using reinforcement learning
▶Miniature Robot Arm
A miniature robot arm designed, built, and programmed by me
A small 3D-printed robot arm
▶FIRST Robotics Competition
Controls, UI, and logging for competition robots
A FIRST Robotics competition robot