John M. Dolan
Senior Systems Scientist
The Robotics Institute
3109 Newell-Simon Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: (412)268-7988
FAX: (412)268-7350
Research
- Wide Area Prospecting Using Supervised Autonomous Robots
- Videos
- K10 teleoperation at NASA Ames and NASA JPL from CMU [20MB, 1:42 runtime]
This video presents in fast-forward format (4x clock speed) teleoperation tests performed between CMU and both NASA ARC and NASA JPL on 10 August 2005. At NASA ARC, the K10-purple was remotely piloted from CMU to physically touch three targets, and at NASA JPL, the Sample Return Rover was remotedly piloted to visit three rocks. The targets and rocks served as surrogate prospecting sites. Teleoperation was implemented via joystick. Both site and rover camera views are shown.
- Papers/reports
- Human Telesupervision of a Fleet of Autonomous Robots for Safe and Efficient Space Exploration, Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March, 2006.
- Safe and Efficient Robotic Space Exploration with Tele-Supervised Autonomous Robots, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium, March, 2006.
- A Robot Supervision Architecture for Safe and Efficient Space Exploration and Operation, Tenth Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments: Earth & Space 2006 Conference, ASCE, March, 2006.
- Adaptive Sampling for Multi-Robot Wide Area Prospecting, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-51, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2005.
- Mobile Robot Mission Reliability
- MySecureCyberspace
- Multimodal Arc Welding Controller
- Videos
- Multimodal controller demonstration (December 2001) [384MB, 10:35 runtime]
This video presents a demonstration of a multimodal (voice/gesture) controller for intuitive programming and control of an industrial manipulator in arc welding tasks. Station 1 (0:00-3:45) demonstrates "reduced sensor mode", in which the sensor provides only directional, but not absolute position, information. Station 2 (3:45-6:40) demonstrates "slave mode", in which human motion is imitated in a scaled or transposed fashion. Station 3 (6:40-10:35) presents learning by observation, in which earlier programming patterns are used to predict current programming intentions.
- Papers/reports
- Cyberscout - Distributed Robotic Surveillance
- CyberATV - Autonomous ATVs for distributed reconnaissance and surveillance
- Millibots - Small (7 cm^3) robots for cooperative indoor sensing and localization
- RAVE - Real and Virtual Environment for multirobot command and control
- Asynchronous Teams
- ABB Transformer Winding Project
- Self-Mobile Space Manipulator (SM^2) [RI project page]
Army Reserves
- Army Reserve Information Operations Command (ARIOC) SEI Project
- Army Reserve Magazine article on the ARIOC's establishment of
a partnership with CMU's Software Engineering Institute to develop training in computer information assurance. I served as
technical liaison with SEI to oversee the development and implementation of this training.
- ARIOC Information Assurance Exercise (IAX)
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on the IAX, the capstone event in the SEI
training program. I served as battalion commander of one of the five Information Operation Centers that make up the ARIOC.
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