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GRASP Seminar Series: Spring 2008
April 4, 11:00 a.m., Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (3330 Walnut Street)
Charles Shoemaker
General Dynamics Robotic Systems
"GDRS Robotics Technology and Systems"
Abstract: General Dynamics Robotics Systems has been selected by a variety of DoD agencies to pursue a wide array of robotics development programs. These efforts include leadership of the Army Research Laboratory’s Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance, a consortium of premiere robotics research groups in industry and academia focused on core technology development in Perception, Intelligent Control, and Human-Machine Interface. Other GDRS robotics programs have integrated that technology base into a wide range of Unmanned Ground Vehicles, and Unmanned Air Vehicles for the U.S. Army and DARPA and the Unmanned Surface Vehicle for the U.S. Navy. In addition to system development the same technology base was selected for additional performance upgrades and maturation in GDRS’ largest program the Autonomous Navigation System that is developing the perception and intelligence technology for the Army’s first generation of autonomous ground vehicles.
Earlier this year GDRS’s Mobile Detection and Response System was selected to be the first autonomous vehicle in DoD to move into serial production. These vehicles will be used in a physical security role to patrol depots and other high security DoD areas.
Through each of these programs, GDRS has developed extensive experience in the full range of robot control regimes from teleoperation, through supervisory control, and high levels of autonomy.
This presentation will encompass each of these topics and will conclude with a discussion of key technology challenges in our business sector.
Biography: Charles Shoemaker is the Director of Research and Development for General Dynamics Robotic Systems. He holds a Master’s Degree from Loyola College of Maryland and completed a two-year Human Factors internship at the Army’s Human Engineering Lab. Shoemaker has done research in the area of autonomous mobility for unmanned ground vehicles, which was cited in the selection of ARL as the Army Materiel Command's Laboratory of the Year in 2004. He was selected by the Association of Unmanned Vehicles/Systems International to receive the “Al Aube” award for outstanding contributions to the field of unmanned systems. He is a recipient of the Army’s Superior and Meritorious Civilian Service Awards. He was an invited member of the Army Science Board Summer Study Robotics Review in 2006.
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