Tony Jacob

Mapping Icebergs

Tony Jacob, Mingxi Zhou, Yuewei Fu, Cyril Burke, Crew of Kellys Quest
Fogo Island, Newfoundland, CA, 2026  
video

Active Sonar-Driven Iceberg Wall Following Path Planner for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Non-fixed, non-inertial path planning for AUV based iceberg circumnavigation

Tony Jacob, Mingxi Zhou
Oceans Halifax, 2024   (Student Poster Competition Winner)
paper / video / poster / slides / thesis

Object and Depth tracking using a Kalman Filter

Did this project for my Probablistic Robotics class. Developed ROS nodes for YOLO-v5 and MiDAS to track the (x,y,z) of a vehicle in motion using a Kalman Filter in Forza Horizon 4.

2023  
video

Tic-Tac-Toe Gantry Robot

A robot that can play tic-tac-toe with you. Utilized image processing techniques and GCode to understand the play space and actuate the gantry.

Tony Jacob, Vinay Lanka
2022  
video / code

ROS Simulation of a Wind Turbine

Developed the URDF and simulated wind physics as well as actuation of a wind turbine in Gazebo using the ROS framework.

2021  
video / code

ADAS System for Pre-Crash Safety

Developed a pipeline for an ADAS system that enabled Pre-Crash Safety using Lyft's l5 Prediction Dataset and showcased a deployable ROS model for Monocular Depth Estimation for 3D object detection

Tony Jacob, Krishna Prasad Bhatt
VIT Vellore, 2020   (Winner, Hackamotive'20 conducted by Elektrobit & VIT Vellore)
video / slides

Et tu est Monet

Focusing on the characteristics of impressionism art style where the subtle nuances of the environment is revealed in high detail, the exhibit allows you (the audience) to reveal Monet's perspective on the spatial and temporal elements of imagery as you move around and spend time with the Haystacks of Claude Monet.

Tony Jacob, Farhang Naderi, Gery Vargas
Rhode Island School of Design, 2024   (Visathon '24 Exhibit)
website

Pigeons as Bombs

BF Skinner's Project Pigeon (dramatized)

Tony Jacob, Jonathan Jacob
2024  
video

Ode to Bangalore Skies

I used to watch the sunsets from the terrace of my apartment in Bangalore. For all the people that had the opportunity to share this experience, this is for you.

2022  
video

IEEE Podcast Launch Video

Launch video for The TechLoop Podcast

Tony Jacob, Madhav Rajesh, Gagan Varma, Sunny Chakraborti
Vellore Institute of Technology, 2020  
video / website