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Kimberly Shillcutt
PhD Student

No longer a member of RI.

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Research interest keywords

artificial intelligence, field robotics, human-computer interaction, mobile robots, motion planning, planning, and space robotics

Past Projects

Autonomous Rover Technologies - Pursuing breakthroughs and insights into fundamental aspects of robot perception, navigation, position estimation, and integrated exploratory science from a robot.	Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search - Developing robots to search for meteorites in Antarctica, as an analog of a planetary exploration robot.
Sun Synchronous Navigation - We are developing the algorithms, technologies, and experiments that will fulfill the vision of sun-synchronous circumnavigation.

Recent publications [View all 11 publications]

• Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search: Outcomes
  D. Apostolopoulos, L. Pedersen, B. Shamah, K. Shillcutt, M.D. Wagner, and W.L. Whittaker
  2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2001, pp. 4174-4179. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1698 KB] copyrighted

• Solar Navigational Planning for Robotic Explorers
  K. Shillcutt and W.L. Whittaker
  2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, May, 2001, pp. 1421 - 1426. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [184 KB] copyrighted

• The Science Autonomy System of the Nomad Robot
  M.D. Wagner, D. Apostolopoulos, K. Shillcutt, B. Shamah, R. Simmons, and W.L. Whittaker
  2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2001, pp. 1742-1749. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [279 KB] copyrighted

• Technology and Field Demonstration of Robotic Search for Antarctic Meteorites
  D. Apostolopoulos, M.D. Wagner, B. Shamah, L. Pedersen, K. Shillcutt, and W.L. Whittaker
  International Journal of Robotics Research, December, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [963 KB] copyrighted

• Solar Based Navigation for Robotic Explorers
  K. Shillcutt
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-00-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1181 KB], ps.gz [3648 KB] copyrighted

• Solar Power Expert for Remote Robotic Explorers
  K. Shillcutt and W.L. Whittaker
  International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, June, 1999.
  Download: pdf [90 KB] copyrighted

• Patterned Search Planning and Testing for the Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search
  K. Shillcutt, D. Apostolopoulos, and W.L. Whittaker
  1999 International Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems for the Nuclear Industry, American Nuclear Society, April, 1999.
  Download: pdf [171 KB] copyrighted

• Modular Optimization for Robotic Explorers
  K. Shillcutt and W.L. Whittaker
  Integrated Planning for Autonomous Agent Architectures, AAAI Fall Symposium, October, 1998.
  Download: pdf [71 KB], ps.gz [106 KB] copyrighted

• A Concept for Robotic Lunar South Pole Exploration
  M. Deans, S. Moorehead, B. Shamah, K. Shillcutt, and W.L. Whittaker
  Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space (Space '98), April, 1998, pp. 333-339.
  Download: pdf [204 KB], ps.gz [253 KB] copyrighted

• Path Planning for Orbital Motions
  K. Shillcutt
  Proceedings of the Third ASCE Specialty Conference on Robotics for Challenging Environments, April, 1998, pp. 57-63.
  Download: pdf [17 KB], ps.gz [24 KB] copyrighted