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David Duggins
Program Manager/ARL CTA Project Manager

Associated center: VASC

Email address: duggins@ri.cmu.edu

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

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Current Labs & Groups [Past labs]

Face Group - Robust detection, recognition, and tracking of human faces with automated analysis of expressions	Human Identification at a Distance - We are developing and evaluating human identification technologies as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored program in Human Identification at a Distance (HumanID).
NavLab - Autonomous Vehicles and Driver Assistance

Current Projects [Past projects]

CTA Robotics - This project adresses the problems of scene interpretation and path planning for mobile robot navigation in natural environment.	Tartan Racing - Carnegie Mellon University is teaming with General Motors to compete in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
Urban Challenge

Recent publications [View all 11 publications]

• Autonomous driving in urban environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge
  C. Urmson, J. Anhalt, H. Bae, J. Bagnell, C. Baker, R.E. Bittner, T. Brown, M.N. Clark, M. Darms, D. Demitrish, J. Dolan, D. Duggins, D. Ferguson, T. Galatali, C.M. Geyer, M. Gittleman, S. Harbaugh, M. Hebert, T. Howard, S. Kolski, M. Likhachev, B. Litkouhi, A. Kelly, M. McNaughton, N. Miller, J. Nickolaou, K. Peterson, B. Pilnick, R. Rajkumar, P. Rybski, V. Sadekar, B. Salesky, Y. Seo, S. Singh, J.M. Snider, J.C. Struble, A. Stentz, M. Taylor, W.L. Whittaker, Z. Wolkowicki, W. Zhang, and J. Ziglar
  Journal of Field Robotics Special Issue on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, Part I, Vol. 25, No. 8, June, 2008, pp. 425-466. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1176 KB] copyrighted

• Collision Warning and Sensor Data Processing in Urban Areas
  C. Mertz, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, J. Kozar, R. MacLachlan, A. Steinfeld, A. Suppe, C. Thorpe, and C. Wang
  Proceedings of the 5th international conference on ITS telecommunications, June, 2005, pp. 73-78. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [259 KB], ps.gz [308 KB] copyrighted

• Development of the Side Component of the Transit Integrated Collision Warning System
  A. Steinfeld, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, J. Kozar, R. MacLachlan, C. Mertz, A. Suppe, C. Thorpe, and C. Wang
  IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2004, pp. 343-348. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [187 KB] copyrighted

• Safe Robot Driving in Cluttered Environments
  C. Thorpe, J.D. Carlson, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, R. MacLachlan, C. Mertz, A. Suppe, and C. Wang
  Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium of Robotics Research, October, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [349 KB] copyrighted

• A Performance Specification for Transit Bus Side Collision Warning System
  S. McNeil, D. Duggins, C. Mertz, A. Suppe, and C. Thorpe
  ITS2002, proceedings of 9th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, October, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [41 KB], ps.gz [47 KB] copyrighted

• Safe Robot Driving
  C. Thorpe, R. Aufrere, J.D. Carlson, D. Duggins, T.W. Fong, J. Gowdy, J. Kozar, R. MacLachlan, C. McCabe, C. Mertz, A. Suppe, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Automation (ICMA 2002), September, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [4130 KB] copyrighted

• Side Collision Warning System (SCWS) Performance Specifications for a Transit Bus
  C. Thorpe, D. Duggins, S. McNeil, and C. Mertz
  Final report, prepared for the Federal Transit Administration under PennDOT agreement number 62N111, Project TA-34, May, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [500 KB] copyrighted

• Driving in Traffic: Short-Range Sensing for Urban Collision Avoidance
  C. Thorpe, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, R. MacLachlan, C. Mertz, M. Siegel, A. Suppe, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Proceedings of SPIE: Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology IV, Vol. 4715, April, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [57 KB], ps.gz [61 KB] copyrighted

• Dependable Perception for Robots
  C. Thorpe, O. Clatz, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, R. MacLachlan, J.R. Miller, C. Mertz, M. Siegel, C. Wang, and T. Yata
  Proceedings of International Advanced Robotics Programme IEEE, Robotics and Automation Society, Seoul, Korea, May, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [590 KB], ps.gz [908 KB] copyrighted

• Side Collision Warning Systems for Transit Buses: Functional Goals
  D. Duggins, S. McNeil, C. Mertz, C. Thorpe, and T. Yata
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [30 KB], ps.gz [122 KB] copyrighted