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Brian Chemel
Senior Research Engineer

No longer a member of RI.

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field robotics, hazardous environments, and mobile robots

• Asbestos Pipe-Insulation Removal Robot System - External pipe-crawling asbestos-removal robot
• Gas Mains Repair and Inspection System for Live Entry Environments - GRISLEE, a remotely controllable, modular leak-detection, imaging and repair robot system for the real-time in-situ inspection and repair of live distribution gas mains.
• Houdini - Reconfigurable in-tank mobile cleanup robot
• The Minnow Robot - We are interested in building and studying teams of robots operating in dynamic and uncertain environments.

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

• Evolution of urban robotic system developments
  H. Schempf, unknown, B. Chemel, S.K. Nayar, C. Piepgras, W. Crowley, and S. Boehmke
  Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE / ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, September, 1999, pp. 689 - 694. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [540 KB] copyrighted

• Cyclops: miniature robotic reconnaissance system
  B. Chemel, unknown, and H. Schempf
  IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '99), Vol. 3, May, 1999, pp. 2298 - 2302. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [368 KB] copyrighted

• Pandora: autonomous urban robotic reconnaissance system
  H. Schempf, unknown, C. Piepgras, J. Warwick, B. Chemel, S. Boehmke, unknown, R. Fuchs, and J. Guyot
  IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '99), Vol. 3, May, 1999, pp. 2315 - 2321. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [636 KB] copyrighted

• BOA II: Pipe-Asbestos Insulation Removal Robot System
  H. Schempf, unknown, S. Boehmke, B. Chemel, and C. Piepgras
  Proceedings of the 1996 Environmental Technology Development Through Industry Partnership Conference, October, 1996. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2816 KB] copyrighted

• NEPTUNE: Above ground Storage-Tank Inspection Robot System
  H. Schempf, B. Chemel, and N. Everett
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Magazine, June, 1995. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [665 KB], ps.gz [7342 KB] copyrighted