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Juan Pablo Gonzalez
PhD Student

Email address: jpgonzal@cmu.edu

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

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Research interests

My main research interest is autonomous navigation for mobile robots. In particular I am interested in the effects of uncertainty in the path planning problem and how to use high-resolution maps to facilitate the navigation task. This includes not only planning paths, but also using machine learning techniques to process high-resolution maps and developing perception algorithms for obstacle and landmark detection.

I am also interested in using Gaussian processes and other machine learning techniques as a low-cost alternative to create soil maps for the developing world.

Research interest keywords

computer vision, field robotics, machine learning, mobile robots, motion planning, planning, sensor fusion, space robotics, and stereo vision

Current Labs & Groups

TechBridgeWorld - TechBridgeWorld innovates and implements technology solutions to meet sustainable development needs around the world.

Current Projects

CTA Robotics - This project adresses the problems of scene interpretation and path planning for mobile robot navigation in natural environment.

Recent publications [View all 13 publications]

• 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 [4158 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

• 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

• Creating Low-Cost Soil Maps for Tropical Agriculture using Gaussian Processes
  J.P. Gonzalez, S. Cook, T. Oberthur, A. Jarvis, J. Bagnell, and M.B. Dias
  Workshop on AI in ICT for Development (ICTD) at the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), January, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [856 KB] copyrighted

• Planning with Uncertainty in Position Using High-Resolution Maps - Thesis Proposal
  J.P. Gonzalez
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-45, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [5971 KB] copyrighted

• Planning with Uncertainty in Position Using High-Resolution Maps
  J.P. Gonzalez and A. Stentz
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1061 KB] copyrighted

• The Geometric Path Planner for Navigating Unmanned Vehicles in Dynamic Environments
  J.P. Gonzalez, B. Nagy, and A. Stentz
  Proceedings ANS 1st Joint Emergency Preparedness and Response and Robotic and Remote Systems, February, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [973 KB] copyrighted

• Preplanning for high performance autonomous traverse of desert terrain exploiting a priori knowledge to optimize speeds and to detail paths
  A. Gutierrez, T. Galatali, J.P. Gonzalez, C. Urmson, and W.L. Whittaker
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-54, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [18575 KB] copyrighted

• Gaussian Processes for Statistical Soil Modeling of the Tropics
  J.P. Gonzalez, J. Bagnell, S. Cook, T. Oberthur, A. Jarvis, and M. Rincon
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-52, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2005. [Abstract]
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• Planning with Uncertainty in Position: An Optimal and Efficient Planner
  J.P. Gonzalez and A. Stentz
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '05), August, 2005, pp. 2435 - 2442. [Abstract]
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