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		Nicolas Vandapel NREC Commercialization Specialist, RI Email: Office: NREC Phone: (412) 687-7426   Mailing address: National Robotics Engineering Center #10 40th Street Pittsburgh, PA 15201 Affiliated Center(s):  National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC)

Current Projects [Past Projects]
		CTA Robotics This project adresses the problems of scene interpretation and path planning for mobile robot navigation in natural environment.
		Position Estimation We estimate the position of a robot based on the position of natural landmarks in images.
		Vehicle Safeguarding NREC designed, developed and tested a fully autonomous system capable of following pre-taught paths while detecting and avoiding obstacles.