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Arin Morfopoulos

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 107
Pasadena, CA 91109

Phone:

818.393.1365

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818.354.8172
FORMER MEMBER

Arin Morfopoulos

Member of Technical Staff

Biography

Came to JPL as a summer intern during my freshmen year of undergrad at UCLA. Stayed as an APT year-round and then became a full employee upon graduation.

Education

B.S. - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UCLA 2000-2004

Professional Experience

Programming, hardware troubleshooting, analog/digital board schematic to layout design, FPGA Verilog design, and system integration here at JPL on the following projects:
-Formation Control Testbed
-Rover Navigation Validation
-Terminal Descent Sensor
-JADE
-Aerobot Autonomy
-Robotic Vision 2020 (aka MARS)
-Urban Robot

Research Interests

Real-time embedded robotics, control systems and state estimation of mobile robots in particular or embedded systems in general. Above all, digital circuit design.

Publications

2007
  1. A. Elfes, J. Hall, E. Kulczycki, D. Clouse, A. Morfopoulos, J. Montgomery, J. Cameraon, A. Ansar, R. Machuzak, "An Autonomy Architecture for Aerobot Exploration of the Saturnian Moon Titan," IEEE Aerospace Conference, 01 January 2007.
2004
  1. Morfopoulos, A., McHenry, M., and Matthies, L.,, "Reduction of user interaction by autonomy," Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems 2004, Gaithersburg, MD., 01 August 2004.