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Address:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
M/S 198-235
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109 |
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Member of:
Former JPL Robotics Personnel |
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FORMER MEMBER
Alberto Elfes
Principal Member of Technical Staff
(Short description>>)
Alberto Elfes has been at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since May/2001, where he is a Principal Member of Technical Staff. He leads research in the areas of autonomous robotic airships, coordination and cooperation of autonomous robot crews, and decision-theoretic models for complex systems analysis.
EEng. in Electronics Engineering, ITA/Brazil, 1975
MSc. in Computer Science, ITA/Brazil, 1980
PhD. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, CMU/USA, 1989
1989-1993: Research Scientist, Department of Computer Sciences, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
1994-1997: Project coordinator, United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
1994-1999: Director, Automation Institute/Brazil
2000: Mercator Professor, Ulm/Germany
Since 2001: Principal Member of Technical Staff, JPL
Research Tasks:
PRoSPECT: Wide Area Prospecting Using Supervised Autonomous Robot
Telesupervised Adaptive Ocean Sensor Fleet
Stochastic lattice models for robot perception, navigation and control
Autonomous airships
Coordination and cooperation of heterogeneous autonomous robot teams
Decision-theoretic models for complex systems analysis
2001 Mercator Professorship Award of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2004 Best Paper of the Year Award, INCOSE Systems Engineering Journal
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