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NavLab
Head: Chuck Thorpe

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Location:
NSH B520
(412) 268 8696

Associated center: VASC

For more information, see this lab's homepage.

The Navlab group builds robot cars, trucks, and buses, capable of autonomous driving or driver assistance. The group has produced a series of 11 vehicles, Navlab 1 through Navlab 11. Our applications have included off-road scouting; automated highways; run-off-road collision prevention; and driver assistance for maneuvering in crowded city environments. Our current work involves pedestrian detection, surround sensing, and short range sensing for vehicle control.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Justin David Carlson - PhD Student, RI
• David Duggins - Program Manager/ARL CTA Project Manager <duggins@ri.cmu.edu>
• David Duke - PhD Student, RI <dduke@andrew.cmu.edu>
• Jeffery Hansen - Associate Professor, RI/ICES <jh2m@andrew.cmu.edu>
• John Kozar - Electronics Designer <jkozar@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Robert MacLachlan - Project Supervisor <ram@ri.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Christoph Mertz - Senior Project Scientist <cmertz@andrew.cmu.edu>
• Luis Ernesto Navarro-Serment - Project Scientist <lenscmu@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Aaron Steinfeld - Systems Scientist <steinfeld@cmu.edu>
• Arne Suppe - Senior Research Programmer <suppe@andrew.cmu.edu>
• Chuck Thorpe - Dean, Qatar Campus <thorpe@qatar.cmu.edu>

• CTA Robotics - This project adresses the problems of scene interpretation and path planning for mobile robot navigation in natural environment.
• Cyberinfrastructure for Human-Robot Interaction Research - We seek to provide the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) with collaborative mechanisms and methods for evaluation and exploratory analysis.

• Planning with Uncertainty in Position Using High-Resolution Maps
  J.P. Gonzalez
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-08-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [4175 KB] copyrighted

• Replanning with Uncertainty in Position: Sensor Updates vs. Prior Map Updates
  J.P. Gonzalez and A. Stentz
  Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), May, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1588 KB] copyrighted

• Segmentation of Salient Regions in Outdoor Scenes Using Imagery and 3-D Data
  G. Kim, D. Huber, and M. Hebert
  IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer VIsion (WACV08), IEEE Computer Society, January, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3158 KB] copyrighted

• Denoising Manifold and Non-Manifold Point Clouds
  R. Unnikrishnan and M. Hebert
  18th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), September, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [624 KB] copyrighted

• Data Structures for Efficient Dynamic Processing in 3-D
  J. Lalonde, N. Vandapel, and M. Hebert
  The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 26, No. 8, August, 2007, pp. 777-796. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3253 KB] copyrighted

• Simultaneous Localization, Mapping and Moving Object Tracking
  C. Wang, C. Thorpe, M. Hebert, S. Thrun, and H. Durrant-Whyte
  The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 26, No. 6, June, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3854 KB] copyrighted

• Planning with Uncertainty in Position Using High-Resolution Maps
  J.P. Gonzalez and A. Stentz
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) 2007, April, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1400 KB] copyrighted

• 3D Field D: Improved Path Planning and Replanning in Three Dimensions
  J. Carsten, D. Ferguson, and A. Stentz
  Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '06), October, 2006, pp. 3381 - 3386. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1139 KB] copyrighted

• Anytime RRTs
  D. Ferguson and A. Stentz
  Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '06), October, 2006, pp. 5369 - 5375. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1108 KB] copyrighted

• Learning-enhanced Market-based Task Allocation for Disaster Response
  E. Jones, M.B. Dias, and A. Stentz
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-48, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [242 KB] copyrighted