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Nicolas Vandapel
Project Scientist

Associated center: VASC

Email address: vandapel@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

Vision and Mobile Robotics Lab - Our group studies fundamental problems of Computer Vision and ground mobile robotics.

Current Projects [Past projects]

CTA Robotics - This project adresses the problems of scene interpretation and path planning for mobile robot navigation in natural environment.

Vehicle Safeguarding - The NREC designed, developed and tested a fully autonomous system capable of following pre-taught paths while detecting and avoiding obstacles.

Recent publications [View all 34 publications]

• LADAR-based Pedestrian Detection and Tracking
  L.E. Navarro-Serment, C. Mertz, N. Vandapel, and M. Hebert
  Proc. 1st. Workshop on Human Detection from Mobile Robot Platforms, IEEE ICRA 2008, IEEE, May, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1666 KB] copyrighted

• Data Structures for Efficient Dynamic Processing in 3-D
  J. Lalonde, N. Vandapel, and M. Hebert
  The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 26, No. 8, August, 2007, pp. 777-796. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3253 KB] copyrighted

• Improving Robot Navigation Through Self-Supervised Online Learning
  B. Sofman, E.L. Ratliff, J. Bagnell, J. Cole, N. Vandapel, and A. Stentz
  Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 23, No. 12, December, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2114 KB] copyrighted

• Natural terrain classification using three-dimensional ladar data for ground robot mobility
  J. Lalonde, N. Vandapel, D. Huber, and M. Hebert
  Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 23, No. 10, November, 2006, pp. 839 - 861. [Abstract]

• Experimental Analysis of Overhead Data Processing To Support Long Range Navigation
  D. Silver, B. Sofman, N. Vandapel, J. Bagnell, and A. Stentz
  IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October, 2006, pp. 2443 - 2450. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1196 KB] copyrighted

• Improving Robot Navigation Through Self-Supervised Online Learning
  B. Sofman, E.L. Ratliff, J. Bagnell, N. Vandapel, and A. Stentz
  Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, August, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1683 KB] copyrighted

• Automatic Three-Dimensional Point Cloud Processing for Forest Inventory
  J. Lalonde, N. Vandapel, and M. Hebert
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-21, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3377 KB] copyrighted

• Scale Selection for the Analysis of Point Sampled Curves: Extended Report
  R. Unnikrishnan, J. Lalonde, N. Vandapel, and M. Hebert
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [809 KB] copyrighted

• Scale Selection for the Analysis of Point-Sampled Curves
  R. Unnikrishnan, J. Lalonde, N. Vandapel, and M. Hebert
  Third International Symposium on 3D Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT 2006), June, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [617 KB] copyrighted

• Automatic Three-dimensional Underground Mine Mapping
  D. Huber and N. Vandapel
  The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 25, No. 1, January, 2006, pp. 7-17. [Abstract]