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Tele-Supervised Autonomous Robotics (T-SAR)
Heads: Gregg Podnar and John Dolan
Contact: Gregg Podnar (gwp@cmu.edu)

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

Research in the T-SAR lab focusses on providing end-to-end tools for telesupervision of autonomous robots. This includes MARTA - our flexible Multilevel-Autonomy Robot Telesupervision Architecture for multi-robot planning and monitoring, autonomous navigation, hazard and assistance detection, high-fidelity telepresence and teleoperation, and task-specific vehicles and support systems.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Christopher Baker - PhD Student, RI <tallbaker@cmu.edu>
• [Home] H. Benjamin Brown - Project Scientist <hbb@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] John Dolan - Senior Systems Scientist <jmd@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Alan D. Guisewite - Webmaster/Special Proj Asst <adg@cmu.edu>
• Bryan Low - PhD Student, ECE <klow@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Gregg Podnar - Program Manager <gwp@cmu.edu>
• Ellie Lin Ratliff - PhD Student, RI <elliel@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Stephen B Stancliff - Research Programmer <stancliff@cmu.edu>

• Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot - Very Low Cost - We are deveopling a suite of highly capable mobile robots for Explosive Ordnance Disposal and First Responders which are very low in total ownership costs.
• Telesupervised Adaptive Ocean Sensor Fleet - We are developing a HAB Investigation Telesupervised Adaptive Sensor System (HABITASS) to address the limitations of existing systems.

• Multi-Level Autonomy Robot Telesupervision
  G. Podnar, J. Dolan, A. Elfes, and M. Bergerman
  Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '08), May, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [6410 KB] copyrighted

• Operation of Robotic Science Boats Using the Telesupervised Adaptive Ocean Sensor Fleet System
  G. Podnar, J. Dolan, and A. Elfes
  Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '08), May, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [9340 KB] copyrighted

• Scheduling for Humans in Multirobot Supervisory Control
  S. Mau and J. Dolan
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '07), October, 2007, pp. 1637 - 1643. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [574 KB] copyrighted

• Human Telesupervision of Very Heterogeneous Planetary Robot Teams
  G. Podnar, J. Dolan, A. Elfes, and M. Bergerman
  Proceedings of the 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting (AIAA 2007), September, 2007. [Abstract]
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• The Telesupervised Adaptive Ocean Sensor Fleet
  A. Elfes, G. Podnar, J. Dolan, S.B. Stancliff, E.L. Ratliff, J. Hosler, T. Ames, J. Moisan, T. Moisan, J. Higinbotham, and E. Kulczycki
  Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization III: Readiness for GEOSS, August, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Scheduling for Humans and Team Size Issues in Multirobot Supervisory Control
  S. Mau
  master's thesis, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-20, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Harmful Algal Bloom Characterization Via the Telesupervised Adaptive Ocean Sensor Fleet
  J. Dolan, G. Podnar, S.B. Stancliff, E.L. Ratliff, J. Higinbotham, J. Hosler, T. Ames, J. Moisan, T. Moisan, and A. Elfes
  Proc. NASA Science Technology Conference 2007 (NSTC-07), May, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Adaptive Sampling for Multi-Robot Wide-Area Exploration
  K.H. Low, G. Gordon, J. Dolan, and P. Khosla
  Proceedings of the IEEE 2007 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '07), April, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Scheduling to Minimize Downtime in Human-Multirobot Supervisory Control
  S. Mau and J. Dolan
  Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space, October, 2006. [Abstract]
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• On the Interdependence of Sensing and Estimation Complexity in Sensor Networks
  Y. Rachlin, R. Negi, and P. Khosla
  Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '06), April, 2006. [Abstract]
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