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William R Ommert Senior Research Engineer No longer a member of RI.

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Research interest keywords

architectures, hazardous environments, human motion simulation, mobile robots, and rapid prototyping

Interests and Responsibilities

I am the Lead Software Engineer for Scott Thayer in Field Robotics Center, though have worked on projects in other Centers in the past. I am currently working on the following projects:

• VTI Dismount system -- a handheld system to monitor and control a semi-autonomous robot
• NIOSH First Responder system -- a handheld system to monitor and communicate with First Responders while in hazardous environments
• Human Odometer -- a personal localization system to provide accurate location data in GPS denied areas
• CAS -- a system to support mounted and dismounted JTACs, FACs, and FOs in digitally acquiring and employing systems to execute fire missions for the Marine Corps.
• An analysis of C2 software for the Marine Corps.

I am also an SEI certified PSP/TSP Instructor, and am a trained TSP Launch Coach.

Past Projects

Abacus: Automated Tree Measurement - We are developing low cost methods of nursery tree inventory automation.

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.

• A Principled Analysis of THS(X) 3.2.0
  W.R. Ommert, M.L. Ross, C. Lyons, and S. Thayer
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-60, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2004.
  Download: pdf [13347 KB] copyrighted