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Ferret
Head: William Red L. Whittaker
Contact: Scott Thayer

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: FRC

This page last updated - January 1999.

Project Description

The Ferret mine mapping robot can be lowered down a borehole and produce three-dimensional maps using sonar and laser range finders that can then be used to assess mine conditions.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Aaron Christopher Morris	Postdoctoral Fellow	acmorris@andrew.cmu.edu
	Warren Whittaker	Robotics Field & Test Engineer	warrenw@andrew.cmu.edu
	William Red L. Whittaker	University Professor	red@ri.cmu.edu

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Case Studies of a Borehole Deployable Robot for Limestone Mine Profiling and Mapping
  A.C. Morris, D. Kurth, D. Huber, C. Whittaker, and S. Thayer
  International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR), July, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1304 KB] copyrighted