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James Osborn
Exec Dir, Quality of Life Tech Eng Cente

Associated center: MRTC

Email address: oz@cmu.edu

Mailing address:
Quality of Life Technology Center
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
417 South Craig Street
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
(412) 268 6553
(412) 268 6436 (FAX)

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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Research Interests:

• Development and application of robotics for environmental restoration
• Advanced concepts for nuclear facility decommissioning
• Application of automation in construction

construction, field robotics, hazardous environments, mobile robots, object recognition, and quality-of-life technology

• Magnetic Levitation Haptic Consortium - Low-cost, high-fidelity haptic magnetic levitation haptic interface systems for use by a consortium of haptics researchers in the United States
• Pioneer - Robots for Chornobyl Stabilization
• Quality of Life Technology Center - QoLT is a unique partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh that brings together a cross-disciplinary team of technologists, clinicians, industry partners, end users, and other stakeholders to create revolutionary technologies that will improve and sustain the quality of life for all people.

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

• ARTISAN: An Integrated Scene Mapping and Object Recognition System
  V. Broz, O. Carmichael, S. Thayer, J. Osborn, and M. Hebert
  American Nuclear Society 8th Intl. Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, American Nuclear Society, April, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [813 KB] copyrighted

• Virtual Reality Mapping System for Chernobyl Accident Site Assessment
  T.T. Blackmon, S. Thayer, J. Teza, V. Broz, J. Osborn, M. Hebert, and et al
  Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 3644, February, 1999, pp. 338-345. [Abstract]

• A Photo-Realistic 3-D Mapping System for Extreme Nuclear Environments: Chernobyl
  M. Maimone, L. Matthies, J. Osborn, E. Rollins, J. Teza, and S. Thayer
  Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '98), Vol. 3, October, 1998, pp. 1521 - 1527. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [588 KB], ps.gz [1022 KB] copyrighted

• Ground Pressure Measurement System Paper
  D. Griffiths and J. Osborn
  12th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets III, SPIE, April, 1998.
  Download: pdf [629 KB], ps.gz [1371 KB] copyrighted

• A System for Semi-automatic Modeling of Complex Environments
  A. Johnson, R. Hoffman, J. Osborn, and M. Hebert
  International Conference on Recent Advances in 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling, May, 1997, pp. 213-220. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [449 KB], ps.gz [558 KB] copyrighted

• 3-D object modeling and recognition for telerobotic manipulation
  A. Johnson, P. Leger, R. Hoffman, M. Hebert, and J. Osborn
  Proc. IEEE Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, August, 1995, pp. 103 - 110. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [961 KB], ps.gz [1127 KB] copyrighted

• Sensor Based Interior Modeling
  M. Hebert, R. Hoffman, A. Johnson, and J. Osborn
  American Nuclear Society 6th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems (ANS '95), February, 1995, pp. 731 - 737.
  Download: pdf [362 KB], ps.gz [541 KB] copyrighted

• Ground Penetrating Radar Data Acquisition System
  R. Beck, J. Cosentino, D.W. Collier, and J. Osborn
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-91-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1991. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [435 KB] copyrighted

• Three Dimensional Migration and Forward Modelling of Ground Penetrating Radar Data
  R. Beck and J. Osborn
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-91-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1991. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [701 KB] copyrighted