Alonzo Kelly

Associate Research Professor

Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3891

I am also working at another center of the Robotics Institute called the
National Robotics Engineering Consortium

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Research Interests

My research interests include perception, planning, control, position estimation and human interfaces for mobile robots. I am particularly interested in sensors and algorithms for mapping, obstacle avoidance, object recognition, and visual servoing because these perceptual capabilities can create useful mobile robots with today's technology. I am also interested in inertial and satellite navigation and in navigation algorithms such as Kalman Filters which use such sensors.

Most of my publications are in three areas of inquiry. Off road navigation deals with the challenge of making robots which can drive themselves competently outdoors. Vision based localization tries to guide vehicles effectively based only on visual cues. Motion planning is the problem of determining a path or a best path from one place to another. I have been working on very high speed motion planning. More on these here.


Resume

Use these if you are writing a proposal with me and I pointed you to my web page.

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Click here for my industrial proposal resume [pdf format only].


Current Projects

  • Situational Awareness via Colorized Ranging
  • UPI - PerceptOR Integrated
  • Mars Technology Program
  • Colorized Ranging Sensor
  • The DARPA Urban Grand Challenge
  • FCS Autonomous Navigation System

  • Completed Projects

  • PerceptOR Program
  • Stability Prediction System
  • Merchandizing Robot
  • Automated Material Transport System
  • Autonomous Loading System Project
  • Autonomous Harvester Project
  • The NavLab Project
  • Scanning Laser Rangefinder
  • Ranger Autonomous Vehicle Navigation System

  • Publications

    Click here for a list of my recent publications related to my work at the Robotics Institute over the last few years.


    Teaching

    Click here for a summary of teaching activities and course descriptions.


    Last-Modified: Jan 9, 2007
    Alonzo Kelly <alonzo@cmu.edu>

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