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Thomas Pilarski
NREC Commercialization Specialist

Associated center: NREC

Email address: temp@rec.ri.cmu.edu

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

Jump to: Projects | Publications

• Caisson Construction 3D Modeling System - The Kajima project is developing a system to image/sense/map the terrain of the interior of a caisson.
• Conveyor Belt Inspection System - NREC designed, built and tested a high-speed "machine vision" system for monitoring the condition of conveyor belts such as those used in underground coal mines.
• Demeter - The Demeter project is developing a next-generation self-propelled hay harvester for agricultural operations.
• M2000: A Semi-Autonomous System for High-Speed Paint Removal - Automated paint removal system for large ships
• 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.

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

• 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

• The Demeter System for Automated Harvesting
  T. Pilarski, M. Happold, H. Pangels, M. Ollis, K. Fitzpatrick, and A. Stentz
  Proceedings of the 8th International Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, April, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1293 KB], ps.gz [2767 KB] copyrighted