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Helicopter Lab Head: Omead Amidi Contact: Omead Amidi (omead.amidi@cs.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Location: NSH B506 (412) 268 8074 Associated center: VASC For more information, see this lab's homepage.

This page last updated - January 1999.

Lab Description

To develop a vision-guided robot helicopter which can autonomously carry out functions applicable to search and rescue, surveillance, law enforcement, inspection, mapping, and aerial cinematography, in any weather conditions and using only on-board intelligence and computing power.

Personnel [Past members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Omead Amidi	Senior Systems Scientist	omead.amidi@cs.cmu.edu
	Marcel Bergerman	Systems Scientist	marcel@cmu.edu
	Todd J Dudek	Helicopter Design and Safety Engineer	tdudek@cs.cmu.edu
	Takeo Kanade	U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS	tk@cs.cmu.edu
	Benjamin Michael Koopman	Lab Assistant	koopdude@gmail.com
	Greg Krauland	Masters Student, MechE	gk@andrew.cmu.edu
	James Ryan Miller	Commercialization Specialist	jmce+@ri.cmu.edu
	Hideki Shibata	Robotics Engineer	hidekis@andrew.cmu.edu

Current Projects

Autonomous Helicopter - Develop a vision-guided robot helicopter

Recent publications [View all 27 publications]

• Cascaded Position and Heading Control of a Robotic Helicopter
  M. Bergerman, O. Amidi, J.R. Miller, N.M. Vallidis, and T.J. Dudek
  Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '07), October, 2007, pp. 135 - 140. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [618 KB] copyrighted

• Design and Flight Testing of a High-Bandwidth H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for a Robotic Helicopter
  M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. Messner, and T. Kanade
  Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 29, No. 2, March, 2006, pp. 485 - 494.

• Image and Depth Coherent Surface Description
  P. Mishra
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [21390 KB] copyrighted

• Real-Time and 3D Vision for Autonomous Small and Micro Air Vehicles
  T. Kanade, O. Amidi, and Q. Ke
  43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2004), December, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1335 KB] copyrighted

• Toward Laser Pulse Waveform Analysis for Scene Interpretation
  N. Vandapel, O. Amidi, and J.R. Miller
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, May, 2004, pp. 950 - 955. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [386 KB] copyrighted

• Integrated Modeling and Robust Control for Full-Envelope Flight of Robotic Helicopters
  M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. Messner, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, September, 2003, pp. 552 - 557.

• Design and Flight Testing of a Gain-Scheduled H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for Wide-Envelope Flight of a Robotic Helicopter
  M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. Messner, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, June, 2003, pp. 4195 - 4200.

• Integrated Modeling and Robust Control for Full-Envelope Flight of Robotic Helicopters
  M. La Civita
  doctoral dissertation, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2003. [Abstract]

• Design and Flight Testing of a High-Bandwidth H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for a Robotic Helicopter
  M. La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, W. Messner, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, August, 2002.

• Modeling of Small-Scale Helicopters with Integrated First-Principles and System-Identification Techniques
  M. La Civita, W. Messner, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 58th Forum of the American Helicopter Society, June, 2002, pp. 2505 - 2516.