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Jay Gowdy
Visiting Navlab Associate

No longer a member of RI.

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Past Labs & Groups

Microdynamic Systems Laboratory - Exploring the limits of robotics in terms of speed, precision, dexterity and miniaturization.

NavLab - Autonomous Vehicles and Driver Assistance

Past Projects

Architecture for Agile Assembly - Reduction of time to market in agile manufacturing	Autonomous Ground Vehicle Design - Pursuing high speed navigation of unrehearsed terrain in pursuit of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
RHex Robot - We are developing a six legged robot capable of achieving a wide variety of dynamically dextrous tasks.	Transit Bus Collision Warning Systems - Research and integration of side and front collision warning systems for transit buses.

Recent publications [View all 23 publications]

• Collision Warning and Sensor Data Processing in Urban Areas
  C. Mertz, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, J. Kozar, R. MacLachlan, A. Steinfeld, A. Suppe, C. Thorpe, and C. Wang
  Proceedings of the 5th international conference on ITS telecommunications, June, 2005, pp. 73-78. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [259 KB], ps.gz [308 KB] copyrighted

• High Speed Navigation of Unrehearsed Terrain: Red Team Technology for Grand Challenge 2004
  C. Urmson, J. Anhalt, M. Clark, T. Galatali, J.P. Gonzalez, J. Gowdy, A. Gutierrez, S. Harbaugh, M. Johnson-Roberson, H. Kato, P.L. Koon, K. Peterson, B.K. Smith, S. Spiker, E. Tryzelaar, and W.L. Whittaker
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-37, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [5244 KB] copyrighted

• Development of the Side Component of the Transit Integrated Collision Warning System
  A. Steinfeld, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, J. Kozar, R. MacLachlan, C. Mertz, A. Suppe, C. Thorpe, and C. Wang
  IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2004, pp. 343-348. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [187 KB] copyrighted

• Perception for collision avoidance and autonomous driving
  R. Aufrere, J. Gowdy, C. Mertz, C. Thorpe, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Mechatronics, Vol. 13, No. 10, December, 2003, pp. 1149-1161. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1186 KB] copyrighted

• Safe Robot Driving in Cluttered Environments
  C. Thorpe, J.D. Carlson, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, R. MacLachlan, C. Mertz, A. Suppe, and C. Wang
  Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium of Robotics Research, October, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [349 KB] copyrighted

• Safe Robot Driving
  C. Thorpe, R. Aufrere, J.D. Carlson, D. Duggins, T.W. Fong, J. Gowdy, J. Kozar, R. MacLachlan, C. McCabe, C. Mertz, A. Suppe, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Automation (ICMA 2002), September, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [4130 KB] copyrighted

• Driving in Traffic: Short-Range Sensing for Urban Collision Avoidance
  C. Thorpe, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, R. MacLachlan, C. Mertz, M. Siegel, A. Suppe, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Proceedings of SPIE: Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology IV, Vol. 4715, April, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [57 KB], ps.gz [61 KB] copyrighted

• Dependable Perception for Robots
  C. Thorpe, O. Clatz, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, R. MacLachlan, J.R. Miller, C. Mertz, M. Siegel, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Proceedings of International Advanced Robotics Programme IEEE, Robotics and Automation Society, Seoul, Korea, May, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [590 KB], ps.gz [908 KB] copyrighted

• Emergent Architectures: A Case Study for Outdoor Mobile Robots
  J. Gowdy
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-00-27, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [554 KB], ps.gz [929 KB] copyrighted

• A Qualitative Comparison of Interprocess Communications Toolkits for Robotics
  J. Gowdy
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-00-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [649 KB], ps.gz [565 KB] copyrighted