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James Ryan Miller
Commercialization Specialist

Associated center: VASC

Email address: jmce+@ri.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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Current Labs & Groups

Helicopter Lab - A vision-guided robot helicopter which can function in any weather conditions using only on-board intelligence and computing power.

Current Projects

Autonomous Helicopter - Develop a vision-guided robot helicopter	Motion Free Scanning Radar - We incorporate the current state of the art in non-mechanical scanning antenna technology with advanced millimeter-wave ranging technology to enable a small, reliable, and affordable imaging-radar sensor with no moving parts. Sensors will be demonstrated on the sponsor's equipment in typical operating scenarios and environments.
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.

Publications

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

• Cascaded Position and Heading Control of a Robotic Helicopter
  M. Bergerman, O. Amidi, J.R. Miller, N.M. Vallidis, and T.J. Dudek
  Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '07), October, 2007, pp. 135 - 140. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [618 KB] copyrighted

• Toward Laser Pulse Waveform Analysis for Scene Interpretation
  N. Vandapel, O. Amidi, and J.R. Miller
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, May, 2004, pp. 950 - 955. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [386 KB] copyrighted

• A 3D Color Terrain Modeling System for Small Autonomous Helicopters
  J.R. Miller
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-02-07, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [14857 KB] copyrighted

• Eye-safe Laser Line Striper for Outside Use
  C. Mertz, J. Kozar, J.R. Miller, and C. Thorpe
  IV 2002, IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, June, 2002., December, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1413 KB], ps.gz [582 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

• Arctic Test Flights of the CMU Autonomous Helicopter
  J.R. Miller, O. Amidi, and M. Delouis
  Proceedings of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International 1999, 26th Annual Symposium, July, 1999.
  Download: pdf [1796 KB], ps.gz [2720 KB] copyrighted

• Precision 3-D Modeling for Autonomous Helicopter Flight
  J.R. Miller, O. Amidi, C. Thorpe, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR), 1999.

• 3-D Site Mapping with the CMU Autonomous Helicopter
  J.R. Miller and O. Amidi
  Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-5), June, 1998.
  Download: pdf [381 KB], ps.gz [694 KB] copyrighted

• Autonomous Helicopter Research at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
  O. Amidi, T. Kanade, and J.R. Miller
  Proceedings of Heli Japan `98, April, 1998.

• Vision-Based Autonomous Helicopter Research at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute 1991-1997
  O. Amidi, T. Kanade, and J.R. Miller
  American Helicopter Society International Conference, Heli, japan, April, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [273 KB] copyrighted