William Whittaker

According to our database, William Whittaker authored at least 70 papers between 1985 and 2020.

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2020

High Precision In-Pipe Robot Localization with Reciprocal Sensor Fusion.

Dapeng Zhao, William Whittaker

CoRR, 2020

2019

Automated Analysis, Reporting, and Archiving for Robotic Nondestructive Assay of Holdup Deposits.

Heather L. Jones, Siri Maley, Kenji Yonekawa, Mohammadreza Mousaei, J. David Yesso, David Kohanbash, William Whittaker

CoRR, 2019

A Robot for Nondestructive Assay of Holdup Deposits in Gaseous Diffusion Piping.

Heather L. Jones, Siri Maley, Mohammadreza Mousaei, David Kohanbash, Warren Whittaker, James P. Teza, Andrew Zhang, Nikhil Jog, William Whittaker

CoRR, 2019

Improving slip prediction on Mars using thermal inertia measurements.

Christopher Cunningham, Issa A. D. Nesnas, William L. Whittaker

Auton. Robots, 2019

Belief Space Planning for Reducing Terrain Relative Localization Uncertainty in Noisy Elevation Maps.

Eugene Fang, P. Michael Furlong, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

Agile Depth Sensing Using Triangulation Light Curtains.

Joseph R. Bartels, Jian Wang, William Whittaker, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2019

Ray Tracing and Use of Shadows as Features for Determining Location in Lunar Polar Terrain.

Eugene Fang, William (Red) L. Whittaker

Proceedings of the Field and Service Robotics, 2019

2018

3-D Volumetric Gamma-ray Imaging and Source Localization with a Mobile Robot.

Michael Lee, Matthew Hanczor, Jiyang Chu, Zhong He, Nathan Michael, Red Whittaker

CoRR, 2018

Active Range and Bearing-based Radiation Source Localization.

Michael S. Lee, Daniel Shy, William Whittaker, Nathan Michael

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018

Programmable Triangulation Light Curtains.

Jian Wang, Joseph R. Bartels, William Whittaker, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ECCV 2018, 2018

2017

Epipolar time-of-flight imaging.

Supreeth Achar, Joseph R. Bartels, William L. Whittaker, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

ACM Trans. Graph., 2017

Locally-adaptive slip prediction for planetary rovers using Gaussian processes.

Christopher Cunningham, Masahiro Ono, Issa Nesnas, Jeng Yen, William L. Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017

Accelerating energy-aware spatiotemporal path planning for the lunar poles.

Christopher Cunningham, Joseph Amato, Heather L. Jones, William L. Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017

Strategic Autonomy for Reducing Risk of Sun-Synchronous Lunar Polar Exploration.

Nathan D. Otten, David Wettergreen, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the Field and Service Robotics, 2017

2016

Advantages of continuous excavation in lightweight planetary robotic operations.

Krzysztof Skonieczny, David Wettergreen, William Whittaker

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2016

Efficient multi-sensor exploration using dependent observations and conditional mutual information.

Wennie Tabib, Red Whittaker, Nathan Michael

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, 2016

Computationally efficient information-theoretic exploration of pits and caves.

Wennie Tabib, Micah Corah, Nathan Michael, Red Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

2015

Planning routes of continuous illumination and traversable slope using connected component analysis.

Nathan D. Otten, Heather L. Jones, David Wettergreen, William L. Whittaker

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015

Terrain traversability prediction by imaging thermal transients.

Christopher Cunningham, Issa Nesnas, William L. Whittaker

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015

Considering the Effects of Gravity When Developing and Field Testing Planetary Excavator Robots.

Krzysztof Skonieczny, Thomas Carlone, William L. Whittaker, David S. Wettergreen

Proceedings of the Field and Service Robotics, 2015

2013

Predicting Terrain Traversability from Thermal Diffusivity.

Christopher Cunningham, Uland Wong, Kevin M. Peterson, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the Field and Service Robotics, 2013

2012

Position estimation by registration to planetary terrain.

Aashish Sheshadri, Kevin M. Peterson, Heather L. Jones, William L. Whittaker

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, 2012

Image-Directed Sampling for Geometric Modeling of Lunar Terrain.

Uland Wong, Ben Garney, Warren Whittaker, Red Whittaker

Proceedings of the Field and Service Robotics, 2012

Complementary Flyover and Rover Sensing for Superior Modeling of Planetary Features.

Heather L. Jones, Uland Wong, Kevin M. Peterson, Jason Koenig, Aashish Sheshadri, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the Field and Service Robotics, 2012

2011

Comparative evaluation of range sensing technologies for underground void modeling.

Uland Wong, Aaron Morris, Colin Lea, James Lee, Chuck Whittaker, Ben Garney, Red Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011

A long-duration propulsive lunar landing testbed.

Krishna Shankar, Kevin M. Peterson, Heather L. Jones, Justin B. Moidel, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011

2009

Autonomous Driving in Traffic: Boss and the Urban Challenge.

Chris Urmson, Christopher R. Baker, John M. Dolan, Paul E. Rybski, Bryan Salesky, William Whittaker, Dave Ferguson, Michael Darms

AI Mag., 2009

Camera and LIDAR Fusion for Mapping of Actively Illuminated Subterranean Voids.

Uland Wong, Ben Garney, Warren Whittaker, Red Whittaker

Proceedings of the Field and Service Robotics, Results of the 7th International Conference, 2009

2008

Autonomous driving in urban environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge.

Chris Urmson, Joshua Anhalt, Drew Bagnell, Christopher R. Baker, Robert Bittner, M. N. Clark, John M. Dolan, Dave Duggins, Tugrul Galatali, Christopher Geyer, Michele Gittleman, Sam Harbaugh, Martial Hebert, Thomas M. Howard, Sascha Kolski, Alonzo Kelly, Maxim Likhachev, Matthew McNaughton, Nick Miller, Kevin M. Peterson, Brian Pilnick, Raj Rajkumar, Paul E. Rybski, Bryan Salesky, Young-Woo Seo, Sanjiv Singh, Jarrod M. Snider, Anthony Stentz, William Whittaker, Ziv Wolkowicki, Jason Ziglar, Hong Bae, Thomas Brown, Daniel Demitrish, Bakhtiar Litkouhi, Jim Nickolaou, Varsha Sadekar, Wende Zhang, Joshua Struble, Michael Taylor, Michael Darms, Dave Ferguson

J. Field Robotics, 2008

Self-Driving Cars and the Urban Challenge.

Chris Urmson, William Whittaker

IEEE Intell. Syst., 2008

2006

A robust approach to high-speed navigation for unrehearsed desert terrain.

Chris Urmson, Charlie Ragusa, David Ray, Joshua Anhalt, Daniel Bartz, Tugrul Galatali, Alexander Gutierrez, Josh Johnston, Sam Harbaugh, Hiroki Kato, William C. Messner, Nick Miller, Kevin M. Peterson, Bryon Smith, Jarrod M. Snider, Spencer Spiker, Jason Ziglar, William Whittaker, Michael Clark, Phillip L. Koon, Aaron Mosher, Joshua Struble

J. Field Robotics, 2006

Recent developments in subterranean robotics.

Aaron Morris, Dave Ferguson, Zachary Omohundro, David M. Bradley, David Silver, Christopher R. Baker, Scott Thayer, Chuck Whittaker, William Whittaker

J. Field Robotics, 2006

Testing Driver Skill for High-Speed Autonomous Vehicles.

Chris Urmson, William Whittaker, Sam Harbaugh, Michael Clark, Phillip L. Koon

Computer, 2006

A Complete System for High-Speed Navigation of Prescribed Routes.

Chris Urmson, Alexander Gutierrez, Nick Miller, Kevin M. Peterson, Spencer Spiker, Joshua Struble, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006

2005

Sun-Synchronous Robotic Exploration: Technical Description and Field Experimentation.

David Wettergreen, Paul Tompkins, Chris Urmson, Michael Wagner, William Whittaker

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2005

First Experiments in the Robotic Investigation of Life in the Atacama Desert of Chile.

David Wettergreen, Nathalie Cabrol, James P. Teza, Paul Tompkins, Chris Urmson, Vandi Verma, Michael Wagner, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005

2004

Autonomous exploration and mapping of abandoned mines.

Sebastian Thrun, Scott Thayer, William Whittaker, Christopher R. Baker, Wolfram Burgard, Dave Ferguson, Dirk Hähnel, Melvin D. Montemerlo, Aaron Morris, Zachary Omohundro, Carlos F. Reverte

IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2004

2003

An Autonomous Robotic System for Mapping Abandoned Mines.

David I. Ferguson, Aaron Morris, Dirk Hähnel, Christopher R. Baker, Zachary Omohundro, Carlos F. Reverte, Scott Thayer, Charles Whittaker, William Whittaker, Wolfram Burgard, Sebastian Thrun

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16 [Neural Information Processing Systems, 2003

A system for volumetric robotic mapping of abandoned mines.

Sebastian Thrun, Dirk Hähnel, David I. Ferguson, Michael Montemerlo, Rudolph Triebel, Wolfram Burgard, Christopher R. Baker, Zachary Omohundro, Scott Thayer, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003

A Case Study in Robotic Mapping of Abandoned Mines.

Christopher R. Baker, Zachary Omohundro, Scott Thayer, William Whittaker, Michael Montemerlo, Sebastian Thrun

Proceedings of the Field and Service Robotics, Recent Advances in Reserch and Applications, 2003

2002

First Experiment in Sun-Synchronous Exploration.

David Wettergreen, M. Bernardine Dias, Benjamin Shamah, James P. Teza, Paul Tompkins, Chris Urmson, Michael Wagner, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002

Mission Planning for the Sun-Synchronous Navigation Field Experiment.

Paul Tompkins, Anthony Stentz, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002

Conditional Particle Filters for Simultaneous Mobile Robot Localization and People-Tracking.

Michael Montemerlo, Sebastian Thrun, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002

2001

The Science Autonomy System of the Nomad Robot.

Michael D. Wagner, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, Kimberly J. Shillcutt, Benjamin Shamah, Reid G. Simmons, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

Skyworker: A Robot for Assembly Inspection and Maintenance of Large Scale Orbital Facilities.

Sarjoun Skaff, Chris Urmson, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

Solar Navigational Planning for Robotic Explorers.

Kimberly J. Shillcutt, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

Autonomous Robotic Meteorite Identification in Antarctica.

Liam Pedersen, Michael Wagner, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

Autonomous Exploration Using Multiple Sources of Information.

Stewart J. Moorehead, Reid G. Simmons, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search Outcomes.

Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, Liam Pedersen, Benjamin Shamah, Kimberly J. Shillcutt, Michael D. Wagner, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

2000

Technology and Field Demonstration of Robotic Search for Antarctic Meteorites.

Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, Michael D. Wagner, Benjamin Shamah, Liam Pedersen, Kimberly J. Shillcutt, William Whittaker

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2000

Bayes Networks on Ice: Robotic Search for Antarctic Meteorites.

Liam Pedersen, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13, 2000

1999

Preliminary Results on the use of Stereo, Color Cameras and Laser Sensors in Antarctica.

Nicolas Vandapel, Stewart J. Moorehead, William Whittaker, Raja Chatila, Rafael Murrieta-Cid

Proceedings of the Experimental Robotics VI, 1999

1998

Field validation of Nomad's robotic locomotion.

Benjamin Shamah, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, Eric Rollins, William L. Whittaker

Proceedings of the Mobile Robots XIII and Intelligent Transportation Systems, Boston, 1998

Sensing and data classification for a robotic meteorite search.

Liam Pedersen, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, William L. Whittaker, Gretchen K. Benedix, Ted Roush

Proceedings of the Mobile Robots XIII and Intelligent Transportation Systems, Boston, 1998

Radar sensor for an autonomous Antarctic explorer.

Alex Foessel-Bunting, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, William L. Whittaker

Proceedings of the Mobile Robots XIII and Intelligent Transportation Systems, Boston, 1998

NOMAD: A Demonstration of the Transforming Chassis.

Eric Rollins, Jonathan E. Luntz, Alex Foessel, Benjamin Shamah, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1998

The Atacama Desert Trek: Outcomes.

Deepak Bapna, Eric Rollins, John Murphy, Mark W. Maimone, William Whittaker, David Wettergreen

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1998

Antenna Pointing for High Bandwidth Communications from Mobile Robots.

Deepak Bapna, Eric Rollins, Alex Foessel, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1998

1995

Experience with rover navigation for lunar-like terrains.

Reid G. Simmons, Eric Krotkov, Lonnie Chrisman, Fábio Gagliardi Cozman, Richard Goodwin, Martial Hebert, Lalitesh Katragadda, Sven Koenig, Gita Krishnaswamy, Yoshikazu Shinoda, William Whittaker, Paul R. Klarer

Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1995

1994

Energy-Based Stability Measures for Reliable Locomotion of Statically Stable Walkers: Theory and Application.

Peter V. Nagy, Subhas Desa, William L. Whittaker

Int. J. Robotics Res., 1994

1993

Exploring Mount Erebus by walking robot.

David Wettergreen, Charles E. Thorpe, William Whittaker

Robotics Auton. Syst., 1993

Evolving directions in NASA's planetary rover requirements and technology.

Charles R. Weisbin, Melvin D. Montemerlo, William Whittaker

Robotics Auton. Syst., 1993

Configuration of Autonomous Walkers for Extreme Terrain.

John Bares, William L. Whittaker

Int. J. Robotics Res., 1993

1992

Progress towards robotic exploration of extreme terrain.

Reid G. Simmons, Eric Krotkov, William Whittaker, Brian Albrecht, John Bares, Christopher Fedor, Regis Hoffman, Henning Pangels, David Wettergreen

Appl. Intell., 1992

A walking prescription for statically-stable walkers based on walker/terrain interaction.

Peter V. Nagy, William L. Whittaker, Subhas Desa

Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1992

1990

Walking robot with a circulating gait.

John Bares, William L. Whittaker

Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems '90, 1990

1989

Ambler: An Autonomous Rover for Planetary Exploration.

John Bares, Martial Hebert, Takeo Kanade, Eric Krotkov, Tom M. Mitchell, Reid G. Simmons, William Whittaker

Computer, 1989

1987

An architecture and two cases in range-based modeling and planning.

William L. Whittaker, George Turkiyyah, Martial Hebert

Proceedings of the 1987 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, March 31, 1987

1986

Autonomous land vehicle project at CMU.

Takeo Kanade, Charles E. Thorpe, William Whittaker

Proceedings of the 14th ACM Annual Conference on Computer Science, 1986

1985

First Results in Robot Road-Following.

Richard S. Wallace, Anthony Stentz, Charles E. Thorpe, Hans P. Moravec, William Whittaker, Takeo Kanade

Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Los Angeles, 1985