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Students and Staff

Ph.D. Students
Mark McClelland ME Ph.D. Student Operator interaction, mapping with cooperative science rovers
Cesar Rivadeneyra AE Ph.D. Student Cooperative Rover Systems
Jason Hardy ME Ph.D. Student Probabilistic planning in robotics
Danelle Shah ME Ph.D. Student Human-robotic interaction: Adaptive Tasking and Human Sensor Fusion
Nisar Ahmed ME Ph.D. Student Probabilistic models of human decision making
Jon Schoenberg AE Ph.D. Student Sensor fusion in cooperative robotic systems
William Whitacre TAM Ph.D. Student Cooperative Estimation for the SeaScan UAV’s
Post-Doctoral Staff
Dr. Isaac Miller Post-Doctoral Research Associate Sensor fusion and perception for large scale robotics
Past Ph.D. Students
Isaac Miller ME Ph.D. (2008) Robotic Localization and Perception in Static Terrain and Dynamic Urban Environments
Current: Post-doc, Cornell University
Terry McLoughlin ME Ph.D. (2008) Scalable Decentralized Guidance, Navigation and Control Architectures for Large Spacecraft Formations
Current: Engineer at Draper Labs
David Schneider ME Ph.D. (2007) Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Control of Multi-Agent Task Allocation Systems
Current: Lecturer and Associate Director, Systems Engineering
Paul Otanez ME Ph.D. (2007) Hybrid Estimation for Control and Planning
Current: Engineer for General Motors Corp., Michigan
Jayant Kulkarni TAM Ph.D. (2005) Robust and Distributed Control Applications
Current: Post-Doctoral Associate at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University
Jarurat Ousingsawat AE Ph.D. (2004) Estimation and Path Planning for Cooperative Multi-Vehicle Systems
Current: Professor at the King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Bangkok Thailand
Eelco Scholte ME Ph.D. (2004) Real-Time Estimation and Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Uncertain Environments
Current: Research Engineer at United Technologies Research Center, Hartford CT
Shelby Brunke ME Ph.D. (2001) Nonlinear Filtering and System Identification Algorithms for Complex Autonomous Systems
Current: Senior Scientist at Siemens, Redmond WA
Doug Thayer AA Ph.D. (1999) Multi-Sensor Control for 6-Axis Active Vibration Isolation
Current: Captain in the US Air Force, Colorado/Oklahoma
Past Post-Doctoral Staff
Dr. Frederic Bourgault Post-Doc (2006-08) Human-robotic interaction; fusion of human sensory information
Current: Research Associate, ETH Zurich
Dr. Jin-woo Lee Research Associate, Post-Doc (2001-06) Embedded Systems for Autonomous vehicles, PowerPC based Open Control Platform
Current: Engineer at General Motors
Dr. Jianda Han Post-Doc (2002-03) Open Control Platform Demo using SeaScan vehicles
Current: Professor, Shenyang Institute of Automation of China
Dr. Yongchun Fang Post-Doc (2002-03) Hierarchical Autonomous Control using RoboFlag and the OEP
Current: Professor, Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information System, Nankai University, TianJin China
Dr. Bogdan Udrea Post-Doc (2000-02) Multiple Satellite Autonomy
Current: Senior Engineer at the European Space Agency
Dr. Shelby Brunke Post-Doc (2001) On-line Estimation
Current: Senior Scientist at Siemens, Redmond W
Dr. Kalev Sepp Post-Doc (2000-01) On-line Estimation and Control
Current: Senior Engineer at Tektronix