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Herman Herman
Principal NREC Commercialization Special

Associated centers: NREC and FRC

Email address: h.herman@cs.cmu.edu

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

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• Autonomous Agricultural Spraying - We are developing ground-based vehicles for pesticide application.
• Autonomous Navigation System - The NREC is leading the development of perception and path planning within the Autonomous Navigation System program for the Future Combat System.
• Land Mine Detection and Neutralization
• 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.
• Sweep Monitoring - NREC developed the Sweep Monitoring System (SMS) for training soldiers and demining personnel to use hand-held land mine detectors.
• Transitional Unmanned Ground Vehicle - Cross Country Navigation
• Underground Mining Operator Assist - Automating the functions of a continuous mining machine and roof bolting units.
• VISTA - On the Vista project we are developing devices that image upto a full 360 degrees in azimuth. The imagery we are getting is ideal for estimation of egomotion (localization) as well as for extracting shape from a sequence of images.

• 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

• Experimental Characterization of Commercial Flash Ladar Devices
  D. Anderson, H. Herman, and A. Kelly
  International Conference of Sensing and Technology, November, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [414 KB] copyrighted

• Real-Time, Multi-Perspective Perception for Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  A. Stentz, A. Kelly, P. Rander, H. Herman, O. Amidi, R. Mandelbaum, G. Salgian, and J. Pedersen
  Proc. of AUVSI Unmanned Systems Symposium 2003, July, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [302 KB] copyrighted

• A System for Semi-Autonomous Tractor Operations
  A. Stentz, C. Dima, C. Wellington, H. Herman, and D. Stager
  Autonomous Robots, Vol. 13, No. 1, July, 2002, pp. 87-103. [Abstract]

• Integrated Air/Ground Vehicle System for Semi-Autonomous Off-Road Navigation
  A. Stentz, A. Kelly, H. Herman, P. Rander, O. Amidi, and R. Mandelbaum
  Proc. of AUVSI Unmanned Systems Symposium 2002, July, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [531 KB] copyrighted

• Stereo perception on an off-road vehicle
  A. Rieder, B. Southall, G. Salgian, R. Mandelbaum, H. Herman, P. Rander, and A. Stentz
  IEEE 2002 Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, Vol. 1, June, 2002, pp. 221 - 226. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [680 KB] copyrighted

• Automatic railway classification using surface and subsurface measurements
  G.A. Kantor, H. Herman, S. Singh, J.G. Tabacchi, and W. Kaufman
  Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR 2001), Yleisjalljennos, Helsinki, Finland, 2001, pp. 43-48. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [322 KB] copyrighted

• Extending Shape from Motion to Non-Central Omnidirectional Cameras
  D. Strelow, J.S. Mishler, S. Singh, and H. Herman
  Proceedings of IROS 2001, 2001. [Abstract]
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• Position Measurement for Automated Mining Machinery
  A. Stentz, M. Ollis, S. Scheding, H. Herman, C. Fromme, J. Pedersen, T. Hegadorn, R. McCall, J. Bares, and R. Moore
  Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, August, 1999, pp. 299 - 304. [Abstract]
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• Analysis and Design of Panoramic Stereo Vision Using Equi-Angular Pixel Cameras
  M. Ollis, H. Herman, and S. Singh
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-99-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 1999. [Abstract]
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