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Teruko Yata
Postdoctoral Fellow

No longer a member of RI.

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We mourn the death of our friend and colleague, Teruko Yata, postdoctoral fellow in the Robotics Institute from 2000 until her recent and untimely death.

After graduating from the University of Tsukuba, working under the guidance of Prof. Yuta, she came to the United States. At Carnegie Mellon, she served as a post-doctoral fellow in the Robotics Institute for the past three years, under Chuck Thorpe. Teruko's accomplishments in the field of ultrasonic sensing were highly regarded and won her the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in 1999.

The quality of her work was exceeded only by her kindness and thoughtfulness as a friend. Her family and friends will always remember her love of adventure, her good nature, and her cheery smile, which brought much happiness to all who met her.

Teruko will be missed by the many people around the world who had the good fortune to know her.

• NavLab - Autonomous Vehicles and Driver Assistance

• Side Collision Warning System for Transit Buses - To develop a warning system which helps a driver of a transit bus to avoid side collisions with pedestrians, other vehicles, or stationary objects.

• Perception for collision avoidance and autonomous driving
  R. Aufrere, J. Gowdy, C. Mertz, C. Thorpe, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Mechatronics, Vol. 13, No. 10, December, 2003, pp. 1149-1161. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1186 KB] copyrighted

• Safe Robot Driving
  C. Thorpe, R. Aufrere, J.D. Carlson, D. Duggins, T.W. Fong, J. Gowdy, J. Kozar, R. MacLachlan, C. McCabe, C. Mertz, A. Suppe, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Automation (ICMA 2002), September, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [4130 KB] copyrighted

• Driving in Traffic: Short-Range Sensing for Urban Collision Avoidance
  C. Thorpe, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, R. MacLachlan, C. Mertz, M. Siegel, A. Suppe, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Proceedings of SPIE: Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology IV, Vol. 4715, April, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [57 KB], ps.gz [61 KB] copyrighted

• Static Environment Recognition Using Omni-camera from a Moving Vehicle
  T. Yata, C. Thorpe, and F. Dellaert
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-02-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [493 KB] copyrighted

• Environment Recognition from a Car Using an Omni-camera
  T. Yata and C. Thorpe
  Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan, September, 2001, pp. 539-540. [Abstract]

• Dependable Perception for Robots
  C. Thorpe, O. Clatz, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, R. MacLachlan, J.R. Miller, C. Mertz, M. Siegel, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Proceedings of International Advanced Robotics Programme IEEE, Robotics and Automation Society, Seoul, Korea, May, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [590 KB], ps.gz [908 KB] copyrighted

• Side Collision Warning Systems for Transit Buses: Functional Goals
  D. Duggins, S. McNeil, C. Mertz, C. Thorpe, and T. Yata
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [30 KB], ps.gz [122 KB] copyrighted

• Use of amplitude of echo for environment recognition by mobile robots
  T. Yata, A. Ohya, and S. Yuta
  Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '00), Vol. 2, October, 2000, pp. 1298 - 1303. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [390 KB] copyrighted

• Using one bit wave memory for mobile robots' new sonar-ring sensors
  T. Yata, A. Ohya, and S. Yuta
  Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 5, October, 2000, pp. 3562 - 3567. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [364 KB] copyrighted

• Step Detection by Sonar
  T. Yata and C. Thorpe
  Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan, September, 2000, pp. 1325-1326. [Abstract]