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[Lab image] NavLab
Head: Chuck Thorpe

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

Location:
NSH B520
(412) 268 8696

Associated center: VASC

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Lab Description

The Navlab group builds robot cars, trucks, and buses, capable of autonomous driving or driver assistance. The group has produced a series of 11 vehicles, Navlab 1 through Navlab 11. Our applications have included off-road scouting; automated highways; run-off-road collision prevention; and driver assistance for maneuvering in crowded city environments. Our current work involves pedestrian detection, surround sensing, and short range sensing for vehicle control.

Personnel [Past members]

Name Title Email Address
Justin David Carlson PhD Student, RI justincarlson@cmu.edu
David Duggins Program Manager/ARL CTA Project Manager duggins@ri.cmu.edu
David Duke PhD Student, RI dduke@andrew.cmu.edu
Steve Gardiner PhD Student, LTI gardines@cmu.edu
Jeffery Hansen Associate Professor, RI/ICES jh2m@andrew.cmu.edu
John Kozar Electronics Designer jkozar@cs.cmu.edu
Robert's personal homepage Robert MacLachlan Project Supervisor ram@ri.cmu.edu
Christoph's personal homepage Christoph Mertz Senior Project Scientist cmertz@andrew.cmu.edu
Luis Ernesto Navarro-Serment Project Scientist lenscmu@cs.cmu.edu
Aaron's personal homepage Aaron Steinfeld Systems Scientist steinfeld@cmu.edu
Arne Suppe Senior Research Programmer suppe@andrew.cmu.edu
Chuck Thorpe Dean, Qatar Campus thorpe@qatar.cmu.edu

Current Projects [Past Projects]

CTA Robotics - This project adresses the problems of scene interpretation and path planning for mobile robot navigation in natural environment.
Cyberinfrastructure for Human-Robot Interaction Research - We seek to provide the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) with collaborative mechanisms and methods for evaluation and exploratory analysis.
Quality of Life Technology Center - QoLT is a unique partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh that brings together a cross-disciplinary team of technologists, clinicians, industry partners, end users, and other stakeholders to create revolutionary technologies that will improve and sustain the quality of life for all people.
RERC on Accessible Public Transportation - We are researching and developing methods to empower consumers and service providers in the design and evaluation of accessible transportation equipment, information services, and physical environments.

Recent publications [View all 229 publications]

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