My first week at Texas A&M was interesting as expected. I settled in on Monday and rested for my first day of the Internship. On Tuesday morning I had a welcome breakfast with other research interns from different disciplines. Then I got together with the interns I would be working with and we were led by two Phd students to Parasol labs. I got to meet more interesting students with very inspiring goals which motivated my interest in working with them for the summer.

After settling in, we began a crash course on Motion Planning which was our main focus of research through the summer. We did some reading on Probabilistic RoadMaps, attended two Phd defenses, ran some experiments with the Parasol Motion Planning Library (PMPL) to test different sampling methods, and had a discussion session to make sure we were all on track.