Aaron Wilhelm is a PhD Candidate in the Napp Lab, having joined in Fall 2020 after receiving his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on ground texture localization and SLAM, developing methods that use a downward-facing camera to enable highly accurate and reliable robot navigation, even in challenging environments.

When he’s not in the lab, Aaron enjoys hiking, scuba diving, baking, cooking, windsurfing, and traveling.

Publications

AJ Wilhelm and N Napp Improved Bag-of-Words Image Retrieval with Geometric Constraints for Ground Texture Localization International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025.

AJ Wilhelm*, AJ Wilhelm*, LI Calderon-Aceituno*, N Napp, K Petersen, EF Helbling Frozen Assets: Leveraging Ice, Water, and Phase Transitions in Robots International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024

AJ Wilhelm, N Napp Lightweight Ground Texture Localization International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024.

J Jaramillo, AJ Wilhelm, N Napp, J Vanden Heuvel, K Petersen Inexpensive, Automated Pruning Weight Estimation in Vineyards International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024.

B Wang, AJ Wilhelm, AJ Wilhelm, S Pilehvar, S Moshfeghi, P Stout, K Salahi, S Emaminejad Wearable Chemical Sensors Wearable Bioelectronics 2020.

S Pilehvar, AJ Wilhelm, AJ Wilhelm, K King, S Emaminejad Emerging Wearable Technologies for Personalized health and Performance Monitoring SPIE Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications X 2018.