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		Christopher Urmson Assistant Research Professor, RI Currently On Leave Email: Office: NSH 1105 Phone: (412) 268-5901   Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Affiliated Center(s):  National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC)  Space Robotics Initiative (SRI)  Field Robotics Center (FRC)

Research Interests

I am generally interested in the development of mobile robots performing interesting tasks in the real world. To that end, I work to understand the interplay between motion planning algorithms and the tasks that they support, the development of new outdoor navigation algorithms for robots traversing cross country terrain, and appropriate architectures that allow their rapid development and reliable operation.

Research Interest Keywords

architectures, field robotics, mobile robots, obstacle avoidance, planning, space robotics