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William Whittaker
Researcher at University of Manchester
Publications - 241
Citations - 11992
William Whittaker is an academic researcher from University of Manchester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Robot & Mobile robot. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 228 publications receiving 11232 citations. Previous affiliations of William Whittaker include Carnegie Mellon University & Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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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 M. Thayer,William Whittaker +9 more
TL;DR: To build consistent maps of large mines with many cycles, an algorithm for estimating global correspondences and aligning robot paths is described, which enables us to recover consistent maps several hundreds of meters in diameter, without odometric information.
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Ambler: an autonomous rover for planetary exploration
John Bares,Martial Hebert,Takeo Kanade,Eric Krotkov,T. Mitchell,Reid Simmons,William Whittaker +6 more
TL;DR: The authors are building a prototype legged rover and testing it on full-scale, rugged terrain of the sort that might be encountered on the Martian surface, and describe how locomotion, perception, planning, and planning systems can satisfy these requirements.
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First results in robot road-following
Richard S. Wallace,Anthony Stentz,Charles E. Thorpe,Hans Maravec,William Whittaker,Takeo Kanade +5 more
TL;DR: The new Carnegie Mellon Autonomous I and Vehicle group has produced the first demonstrations of road following robots, and the vision system of the CMU ALV is described, including a simple and stable control scheme for visual servoing.
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Autonomous exploration and mapping of abandoned mines
Sebastian Thrun,Scott M. Thayer,William Whittaker,Christopher R. Baker,Wolfram Burgard,David I. Ferguson,Dirk Hähnel,D. Montemerlo,A. Morris,Zachary Omohundro,Carlos F. Reverte +10 more
TL;DR: The software architecture of an autonomous robotic system designed to explore and map abandoned mines and some of the challenges that arise in the subterranean environments and some the difficulties of building truly autonomous robots are discussed.