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Michael W Bode
Senior Robotics Engineer

Associated center: NREC

Email address: bode@rec.ri.cmu.edu

Mailing address:
National Robotics Engineering Center
10 40th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

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My current research interests lie in obstacle detection and terrain registration for use on autonomous outdoor robots. I am currently devoting most of my time to Team Blitz of the PerceptOR project that is a technology feed into Future Combat Systems Program. In the PerceptOR project, my main responsibilities are software architecture design, obstacle detection and terrain registration.

Additionally, I am interested in developing many robust and flexible robotics software libraries that can be used in many projects at the NREC.

This section last updated - January 1999.

artificial intelligence, field robotics, machine learning, obstacle avoidance, planning, and range finders

• Robot Learning Lab - Pursuing research on robot learning, mobile robotics, multi-robotics, human robot interaction, and basic machine learning.

• PerceptOR (NREC) - We have developed a novel semi-autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that includes a dedicated unmanned air vehicle - a "Flying Eye" - that flies ahead of the UGV to detect hazards before the onboard UGV sensors would.
• Underground Mining Operator Assist - Automating the functions of a continuous mining machine and roof bolting units.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Learning the Forward Predictive Model for an Off-Road Skid-Steer Vehicle
  M.W. Bode
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [301 KB] copyrighted

• Toward Reliable Off Road Autonomous Vehicles Operating in Challenging Environments
  A. Kelly, A. Stentz, O. Amidi, M.W. Bode, D. Bradley, A. Diaz-Calderon, M. Happold, H. Herman, R. Mandelbaum, T. Pilarski, P. Rander, S. Thayer, N.M. Vallidis, and R. Warner
  The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 25, No. 5-6, May, 2006, pp. 449-483. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [847 KB] copyrighted