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Christoph Mertz
Senior Project Scientist

Associated center: VASC

Email address: cmertz@andrew.cmu.edu

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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My research interests are in the area of intelligent vehicles and autonomous driving in urban areas with an emphasis on development of a short range laser triangulation sensor and its application, and the short term prediction and analysis of future vehicle and object movements.

obstacle avoidance, sensor fusion, and sensors

• NavLab - Autonomous Vehicles and Driver Assistance

• CTA Robotics - This project adresses the problems of scene interpretation and path planning for mobile robot navigation in natural environment.

• LADAR-based Pedestrian Detection and Tracking
  L.E. Navarro-Serment, C. Mertz, N. Vandapel, and M. Hebert
  Proc. 1st. Workshop on Human Detection from Mobile Robot Platforms, IEEE ICRA 2008, IEEE, May, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1666 KB] copyrighted

• Predictive Mover Detection and Tracking in Cluttered Environments
  L.E. Navarro-Serment, C. Mertz, and M. Hebert
  Proc. of the 25th. Army Science Conference, November, 2006.
  Download: pdf [199 KB] copyrighted

• Tracking of Moving Objects from a Moving Vehicle Using a Scanning Laser Rangefinder
  R. MacLachlan and C. Mertz
  Intelligent Transportation Systems 2006, IEEE, Vol. 2006, September, 2006, pp. 301-306. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [431 KB] copyrighted

• 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

• Entwicklung eines Kollisionswarnsystems für Stadtbusse
  C. Mertz
  3. Workshop Fahrerassistenzsysteme, Markus Maurer and Christoph Stiller, April, 2005, pp. 56-63. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [195 KB], ps.gz [203 KB] copyrighted

• A 2D Collision Warning Framework based on a Monte Carlo Approach
  C. Mertz
  Proceedings of ITS America's 14th Annual Meeting and Exposition, April, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [603 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

• Multiple Sensor Fusion for Detecting Location of Curbs, Walls, and Barriers
  R. Aufrere, C. Mertz, and C. Thorpe
  Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV2003), June, 2003. [Abstract]
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