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Kevin Dowling
Project Scientist

No longer a member of RI.

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My main interests are in the development of mobile systems. I've designed and built a number of robotic machines and subsystems. My current research is in the development of serpentine locomotors and machine learning for gait development.

machine learning and mobile robots

• Mobile Robot Lab - Engaging in long-term basic research in perception, control and planning for robots that navigate through complex indoor and outdoor spaces.

• Daedalus - We deveopled Daedalus, a six-legged frame-walker with efficient redundant drive systems, for extreme terrain missions as part of the Lunar Rover Initiative.
• Neptune Mobile Robot - three wheeled robot trike
• Pluto - Flexible platform for computer vision
• Single Leg Testbed - We developed the Single Leg Testbed as a full-scale working prototype for the Ambler.
• Tessellator - Space Shuttle Tile Inspector
• Uranus - mobile robot used for developing 3D mapping and sensing

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

• Limbless Locomotion: Learning to Crawl with a Snake Robot
  K. Dowling
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-97-48, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1997. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3253 KB], ps.gz [4098 KB] copyrighted

• Power Sources for Small Robots
  K. Dowling
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-97-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 1997. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [89 KB], ps.gz [88 KB] copyrighted

• Tessellator Robot Design Document
  K. Dowling
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-95-43, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 1996. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1062 KB] copyrighted

• Three Mobile Robots For Space Context
  W.L. Whittaker, J. Bares, K. Dowling, and L. Kattragadda
  AIAA/NASA Conference on Intelligent Robots in Field, Factory, Service and Space (CIRFFSS '94) Conference, March, 1994.
  Download: pdf [33 KB], ps.gz [32 KB] copyrighted

• Drivetrain Design, Incorporating Redundancy, for an Autonomous Walking Robot
  G. Roston and K. Dowling
  Space94: 4th International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space, February, 1994.
  Download: pdf [26 KB], ps.gz [31 KB] copyrighted

• A Mobile Robot for Ground Servicing Operations on the Space Shuttle
  K. Dowling, R. Bennett, M. Blackwell, T. Graham, S. Gatrall, R. O'Toole, and H. Schempf
  OE / Technology 1992 Cooperative Intelligent Robots in Space, SPIE, November, 1992.
  Download: pdf [101 KB], ps.gz [98 KB] copyrighted

• Mobile Robot System for Ground Servicing Operations on the Space Shuttle
  H. Schempf, K. Dowling, and M. Blackwell
  SPIE OE/Technology `92 Conference, November, 1992.
  Download: pdf [101 KB], ps.gz [98 KB] copyrighted

• The Terregator Mobile Robot
  Champeny-Bares, L.S. Coppersmith, and K. Dowling
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-93-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1991. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [314 KB], ps.gz [909 KB] copyrighted

• NAVLAB: A Autonomous Navigation Testbed
  K. Dowling, R. Guzikowski, J. Ladd, H. Pangels, S. Singh, and W.L. Whittaker
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-87-24, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1987.
  Download: pdf [2070 KB] copyrighted

• A Functional Vehicle for Autonomous Mobile Robot Research
  G. Podnar, K. Dowling, and M. Blackwell
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-84-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1984.
  Download: pdf [2728 KB] copyrighted