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John Leichty

Address:

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

Phone:

818.353.2255

Fax:

818.354.8172

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FORMER MEMBER

John M Leichty

Member of Technical Staff

Biography

John Leichty is currently an engineer in the Robotic Platforms group. He first came to JPL in 2007 as a summer student in the Robotic Hardware Systems group, and later joined the group as a full-time employee in 2010.

John has contributed to tasks at JPL in mechanical and electrical engineering. Presently, he works on the ATHLETE robotic vehicles and the Lunar Surface Operations Testbed.

Education

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2009)
California Institute of Technology

Professional Experience

2007: Summer student in the JPL Robotic Hardware Systems Group
2007-2009: Academic part-time employee in the JPL Robotic Hardware Systems Group
2008-2009: Consultant at POM Wonderful LLC
2010-: Robotics mechanical engineer in the JPL Robotic Platforms Group

Publications

2019
  1. J. Koch, J. Leichty, "Development of a robotic arm for mini-class ROV dexterous manipulation," OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE, Seattle, WA, USA, 2019, pp. 1-5, 27 October 2019.
2016
  1. S. Karumanchi, K. Edelberg, I. Baldwin, J. Nash, J. Reid, C. Bergh, J. Leichty, K. Carpenter, M. Shekels, M. Gildner, D. Newill-Smith, J. Carlton, J. Koehler, T. Dobreva, M. Frost, P. Hebert, J, Borders, J. Ma, B. Douillard, P. Backes, B. Kennedy, B. Satzinger, C. Lau, K. Byl, K. Shankar, J. Burdick, "Team RoboSimian: Semi-autonomous Mobile Manipulation at the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals," Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, vol 34, issue 2, pp. 305-332, 18 October 2016.