Larissa
was an undergraduate student at Mount Holyoke College.
In the summer of 2003 she worked in the Laboratory for
Perceptual Robotics as part of an NSF Research
Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. Larissa
built a honomic mobile robot based on the XR4000
platform by Nomadic Technologies. She turned the
hardware of the robot, including associated onboard
control systems form a velocity controlled robot into
a torque controlled robot.