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Contributors

JPL

Antonio Diaz-Calderon
Mechanism model requirements, XML, DTDs, kinematic algorithms, manipulation infrastructure, base placement, and motion control
Phone:(818) 354-4724
Abhinandan Jain
Principal Investigator -ROAMS high-fidelity dynamic simulator; YaM concurrent development tools
Phone: (818) 354-3412
Andres Castano
Rockit rock detector
Phone: (818) 354-8817
Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu
FIDO rover 3D EKF pose estimator
Phone: (818) 354-8402
Barry Werger
Developer (FY03) - mobility, visual odometry
Phone: (818) 393-6154
Brian Lininger
Spectrometer infrastructure and science analysis algorithms
Phone: (818) 393-6901
Caroline Chouinard
Developer (FY02-FY04) - Decision Layer software infrastructure
Phone: (818) 393-5352
Chris Leger
FIDO CX200 framegrabber device driver
Phone: (818) 393-4462
Dan Clouse
Developer (FY04, FY06 - ) - device and camera infrastructure, imaging, bundle adjustment software integration, and kinematic algorithms for rocker bogie mechanisms
Phone: (818) 354-1157
Dan Gaines
Lead Developer (FY02-FY05, FY06 - ) - Estimation package infrastructure and EKF algorithm integration, general infrastructure, and Decision Layer software
Phone: (818) 393-5346
Dan Helmick
Slope navigation algorithm
Phone: (818) 354-3226
Darren Mutz
Developer (FY99-FY02) - Decision Layer, Decision Layer/Functional Layer interface
Phone: (805) 893-4394
Edward Tunstel
Principal Investigator - university dissemination survey
Phone: (818) 393-2666
Erann Gat (Ron Garret)
Developer (FY03-FY04) - Integration of the MER GESTALT navigation algorithm
Phone: (818) 354-9690
Eric Baumgartner
FIDO 3D EKF rover pose estimator
Phone: (818) 393-5346
Forest Fisher
Principal Investigator - CLEaR (integration of the CASPER planner with the TDL executive)
Phone: (818) 393-5368
Gene Chalfant
Developer (FY01-FY02) - interface to ROAMS dynamic simulator
Phone: (818) 354-1605
Jim Dillon
Hardare Test bed - design of the LM629 motion control board
Phone: (818) 354-6929
John Guineau
Developer (FY05)- development of the FIDO II electronic stack and the Linux adaptation of CLARAty to FIDO
Phone: (818) 393-7124
I-Hsiang Shu
Developer (FY04 - FY06) - integration of CLARAty with ROAMS dynamic simulator, Rocky 8 device configuration infrastructure
Phone: (626) 497-3254
Kevin Watson
Rocky 8 - electronics
Phone: (818) 354-7526
Larry Matthies
Stereo vision algorithm
Phone: (818) 354-3722
Mark Maimone
GESTALT navigation algorithm
Phone: (818) 354-0592
Marsette Vona
Developer (FY02-FY03) - WITS (Maestro) interface, rover navigation (REE/ALERT)
Phone: (617) 253-6532
Matt Robinson
Developer (FY02) - FIDO rover motor adaptation, HIPS vision guided manipulation
Phone: (818) 393-6350
Max Bajracharya
Cog-E (FY03-FY04) - system architecture, vision, motion, instrument placement
Phone: (818) 363-6613
Meemong Lee
Principal Investigator (FY03) - science instruments, instrument simulation
Phone: (818) 354-2228
Mehran Gangianpour
Developer (FY03) - test bed and VxWorks support
Phone: (818) 354-0084
Michael Mossey
Developer (FY03) - communication, data serialization, imaging
Phone: (818) 354-1535
Paolo Pirjanian
Developer (FY01) - behaviors, vision infrastructure
Phone: (626) 535-2864
Richard Petras
Lead Developer (FY99-FY03) - infrastructure for navigation, mobility, vision, and adaptations for all rovers
Phone: (818) 354-0632
Richard Volpe
Program Manager (FY01-FY04), CLARAty Principal Investigator (FY99-FY00), system architecture
Phone: (818) 354-6328
Sharon Laubach
Rover Bug Navigation / Tangent Graph
Phone: (818) 354-0745
Stanley Lippman
Consultant (FY01) - software architecture and object-oriented design
Phone:
Todd E. Litwin
Camera models for the CAHVORE family (cmod)
Phone: (818) 354-5028
Yang Cheng
Visual odometry / crater detection
Phone: (818) 354-1857
Mihail Pivtoraiko
Developer (FY04 - ) - infrastructure for locomotion, path planning, navigation
Phone: (412) 268-3402

Ames Research Center

Anne Wright
Cog-E (FY03-FY04) - system architecture, motion, vision, K9 rover
Phone: (650) 604-4668
Esfandiar Bandari
Affine visual tracking
Phone: (650) 604-3117
Maria Bualat
Vision infrastructure, visual tracking
Phone: (650) 604-4250
Mark Shipman
Science image & spectral analysis algoithms & integratioin
Phone:
Mike Fair
Developer (FY01) - K9 manipulation
Phone:
Randy Sargent
Vision, communication infrastructure
Phone: (650) 604 4553
Robert L. Morris
Science image & spectral analysis algorithms & integration
Phone:
Salvatore Desiano
K9 locomotion
Phone: (650) 604-0407
Ted Roush
Principal Investigator - science analysis algorithms
Phone: (650) 604-3526
Vanadi Verma
PLEXIL Language and Universal Executive
Phone: (818) 393-2498

 

Carnegie Mellon University

Alonzo Kelly
Principal Investigator - rough terrain trajectory generation for local path planning and optimal regional motion planning
Phone:
Andy Yang
Developer (FY03) - locomotion infrastructure
Phone:
Chris Urmson
Developer (FY03-FY04) - navigation architecture, locomotion
Phone: (412) 268-8098
Clark Glymour
Bayes networks
Phone:
David Wettergreen
Developer (FY03) - navigation, path planning, data logging
Phone: (412) 268-5421
Joseph Ramsey
Principal Investigator - Bayes networks
Phone: (412) 268-8063
Kam Lasater
Developer (FY03) - locomotion, ATRV adaptation
Phone:
Khalid Al-Ali
Principal Investigator - Low-cost MAX rover adaptation
Phone: (650) 335-2849
Nik Melchior
Rough terrain navigation
Phone:
Paul Tompkins
TEMPEST path planning
Phone: (412) 268-4670
Thomas Howard
Rough terrain trajectory generation for local path planning and optimal regional motion planning
Phone:
Tony Stentz
Principal Investigator - graph search and path/resource planning (TEMPEST)
Phone: (412) 268-8155

University of Minnesota

Yukikazu Hidaka
Estimation
Phone: (612) 626-7507

University of Washington

Clark Olson
Principal Investigator - wide baseline stereo
Phone: (425) 352-5288

University of Michigan

Johann Borenstein
Principal Investigator - fuzzy logic-based pose estimation
Phone: (734) 763-1560

MIT

Christopher Brooks
Visual sinkage
Phone:
Karl Iagnemma
Terrain characterization, visual sinkage
Phone: (617) 452-3262
Steven Dubowsky
Principal Investigator - terrain characterization; visual sinkage
Phone: (617)253-7881