Team members, projects, expertise

Who and where: Name, institution, some sort of contact info like a link to their web page
Programs: What projects they are, or were recently, working on (e.g. mobile vehicle navigation and path planning)
Methods: What techniques they specialize in (e.g. SLAM, supervised machine learning, Bayesian methods for sensor fusion...)
Idea is maybe to eventually add a 4th column for mapping to CTA Needs.

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Who and where	Programs	Methods
Brian Yamauchi, iRobot Lead PhD? Ohio State http://www.robotfrontier.com/	Stingray - Immersive teleoperation for high speed Warrior platform control Daredevil - Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radar for navigation Wayfarer - autonomous reconnaissance missions using LIDAR and stereovision	Machine Learning
Leslie Kaelbling, MIT PhD in CS from Stanford, 1990 Previously at Brown, SRI, and Teleos Founded Journal of Machine Learning Research Currently Research Director of CSAIL Works with Lozano-Perez http://people.csail.mit.edu/lpk/	Adaptive Controllers for Modular Robotics Path Planning	Theoretical New approaches to Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning Multi-agent and distributed learning Segmentation of motion
Russ Tedrake, MIT PhD in EECS from MIT in 2004 with Sebastian Seung Tedrake page	Little Dog Perching of Fixed-wing and Flapping UAVs Passive Dynamic Walkers Path Planning	Reinforcement Learning (model based and not) Nonlinear control of underactuated systems
Tomas Lozano-Perez MIT - http://people.csail.mit.edu/tlp/ Note: almost all his recent papers have Kaelbling as an author also	Current projects that we would be interested in: Path planning and (some) manipulation. Vision based object recognition	Probabilistic models for uncertainty. POMDPs (Partially observable Markhoff decision processes) MAP estimation Teleoperation for training robots
Missy Cummings MIT - http://www.csail.mit.edu/people/1224 BS and MS from Naval Academy and Postgraduate School Naval Pilot '88-'99	High level human-robot interaction and control	Swarms and swarm control Human management of autonomous robot groups
Cynthia Breazeal MIT - http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab/ Masters and PhD at MIT, EE/CS	Human Robot Interaction Social Robots	Not much of what she is doing is exceptionally applicable to manipulation. There is one paper (on the "Huggable") which does go into detail on sensing skins
Jonathon How Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Previously at Stanford, Ph.D., Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT S.M., Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT B.A.Sc., Engineering Science (Aerospace), University of Toronto.	Activity planning and trajectory design for cooperating vehicles (UAVs and robots) Spacecraft navigation, control, and autonomy Feedback controls perspective to high-level planning Planner in the loop -> stability, disturbance rejection, performance robustness? Effect of noise and uncertainty on closed loop system	Algorithms for cooperative activity and path planning. Multi-agent systems, Linear programming
Seth Teller, MIT EECS Department PostDoc at Princeton Ph.D. at Berkeley Undergraduate at Wesleyan	Situationally-Aware Computing for Autonomous Robotics and Human Assistance Distributed Sensor Network Localization and Tracking Computer Vision, SLAM Wide-Area Egomotion Estimation from Known 3D Structure	non-linear optimization of SLAM pose graph optimization of SLAM particle flow (built upon optical flow, feature tracking)
Dr. Henrik I. Christensen, Georgia Tech earned M.Sc. and Ph.D. EE degrees from Aalborg University, 1987 and 1990 held positions at Aalborg University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Royal Institute of Technology before joining Georgia Tech	Sting Racing mobile manipulation topics: sensory perception for situation awareness, interactive acquisition of skills and tasks, and interpretation of actions in the environment. sensor based servoing, platform-actuator integration, navigation, safe operation in the presence of humans and Human Robot Interaction. mapping and robot vision multi-sensor and multi-target tracking machine learning	Real-Time & graphical SLAM techniques Control Design Categorial Perception bilateral agent negotiation reinforcement learning
Ronald Arkin Regents' Professor, Associate Dean for Research School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Tech Ph.D. 1987 University of Massachusetts (Amherst) M.S. 1977 Stevens Institute of Technology B.S. 1971 University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)	cooperation, communication, and mission specification in reactive multiagent robotic systems unmanned aerial vehicles usable autonomous agents human-robot interaction and robot ethics ecological robotic systems
Emilio Frazzoli Ph.D. in Navigation and Control Systems, MIT Frazzoli page	Distributive, Cooperative control of multiple vehicles Guidance and Control of multiple vehicles Mobile Robotics Mobility-Dependent Motion Planning for High-Speed Robotic Vehicles Cooperative Networked Control of Dynamical Peer-to-Peer Vehicle Systems	Linear Temporal Logic Metric Temporal Logic Stochastic Methods Lyapunov Analysis
Ron Lumia (UNM)	Sensory-interactive robot control Directed (active) vision and image processing Micromanipulation	Fuzzy logic grasping Gripper fabrication using artificial muscles
Greg Starr (UNM)	Robotic motion control Grasping with multi-fingered hands	Same as Lumia, pretty much
Aaron Dollar (Yale) PhD? Harvard Current: postdoc at MIT		Underactuated grasping systems Grasp planning using partially observed Markov decision process (POMDP) SDM Tactile sensors based on IR emitter Detector pairs.
Peter Allen

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