The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
Research Interests
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| Research Interests |
My goal is to build vehicles that can drive. I work with both autonomous vehicles and intelligent teleoperation; with ground vehicles and with air vehicles; with perception and architectures and human factors. For many years, my group concentrated on autonomous driving with the Navlab vehicles. Now, in the Navlab work we are placing more emphasis on driver assistance, such as helping bus drivers drive safely through crowded urban areas. Our latest research vehicle is the Navlab 11, a robot jeep. Contrary to popular opinion, a flashy red jeep with lots of chrome is not a sign of midlife crisis; the chrome light bar and brush guard are high-tech mounting points for the various sensors we use, including ladar (3 of them simultaneously), light stripe rangefinder, radar, sonar, and omnicamera. |
| Additional Interests |
| While I am still a member of the Robotics Institute faculty, my current main job is Dean of the Carnegie Mellon branch campus in Doha, Qatar. The Navlab group keeps on doing research in Pittsburgh, but it is very difficult for me to supervise Pittsburgh-based graduate students. Instead, I go to the camel races and watch the robot camel jockeys.
In my non-professional life, I run, bike, and accumulate frequent flyer miles. |
| Research Interest Keywords |
| computer vision, human-computer interaction, mobile robots, stereo vision, teleoperation |
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