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Michael Paton

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 198-219

Pasadena, CA 91101

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347F - Robotic Mobility

Michael Paton

Member of Technical Staff

Biography

Michael Paton is a Robotics Technologist at JPL in the Robotics Mobility group. Michael received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto on the topic of long-term autonomous path following systems.

His research at JPL is focused on the design and development of extreme-terrain autonomous navigation systems.

Current work at JPL includes the development of a navigation system for the Axel tethered mobility rover to enable the autonomous exploration of cliff faces and terrain-aware navigation for ground rovers.

Education

Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering,
University of Toronto [2017]

M.S. Computer Science,
George Mason University [2012]

B.S. Computer Science,
George Mason University [2007]

Research Interests

- Autonomous Systems
- State Estimation
- Terrain Assessment
- Path Planning

Publications

2024
  1. T. S. Vaquero, G. Daddi, R. Thakker, M. Paton, A. Jasour, M. Strub, R. M. Swan, R. Royce, M. Gildner, P. Tosi, M. Veismann, P. Gavrilov, E. Marteau, J. Bowkett, D. Loret de Mola Lemus, Y. Kumar Nakka, B. Hockman, A. Orekhov, T. Hasseler, C. Leake, B. Nuernberger, P. Proenca, W. Reid, W. Talbot, N. Georgiev, T. Pailevanian, A. Archanian, E. Ambrose, J. Jasper, R. Etheredge, C. Roman, D. Levine, K. Otsu, S. Yearicks, H. Melikyan, R. Rieber, K. Carpenter, J. Nash, A. Jain, L. Shiraishi, M. Robinson, M. Travers, H. Choset, J. Burdick, A. Gardner, M. Cable, M. Ingham, and M. Ono, "EELS: Autonomous Snake-like Robot with Task and Motion Planning Capabilities for Ice World Exploration," Science Robotics, vol. 9, no. 88, 13 March 2024.
  2. M. Paton, R. Rieber, S. Cruz, M. Gildner, C. Abma, K. Abma, S. Aghli, E. Ambrose, A. Archanian, E. Bagshaw, C. Baroco, A. Blackstock, J. Bowkett, M. Cable, E. Cartaya, G. Daddi, T. Drevinskas, R. Etheredge, T. Gall, A. Gardner, P. Gavrilov, N. Georgiev, K. Graham, B. Hockman, B. Jones, S. Linn, M. Malaska, E. Marteau, N. Maslen, H. Melikyan, Y. Kumar Nakka, J. Nelson, M. Pazzini, M. Peticco, M. Prior-Jones, M. Robinson, C. Roman, R. Royce, M. Ryan, L. Shiraishi, C. Stenner, M. Strub, R. M. Swan, B. Swerdlow, R. Thakker, L. P. Tosi, T. Tran, T. Stegun Vaquero, M. Veismann, T. Wood, H. Zade, M. Ono, "2023 EELS Field Tests at Athabasca Glacier as an Icy Moon Analogue Environment," 2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 05 March 2024.
  3. M. Ono, R. Thakker, N. Georgiev, P. Gavrilov, A. Archanian, T. Drevinskas, G. Daddi, M. Paton, H. Melikyan, T. Pailevanian, C. Lopez, E. Ambrose, B. Jones, L. Tosi, M. Gildner, B. Hockman, D. Loret de Mola Lemus, D. Pastor Moreno, T. Hasseler, Y. Kumar Nakka, E. Marteau, B. Nuernberger, M. Peticco, M. Cable, P. Proenca, M. Malaska, J. Bowkett, A. Jasour, M. Ingham, J. Nash, D. Balentine, A. Barchowsky, F. Bevreng, K. Botteon, M. Caballero, K. Carpenter, M. Chodas, A. Daca, J. Feldman, A. Gardner, A. Goddu, A. Jain, C. Jin, M. Khanum, R. Kornfeld, G. Mark, B. Morrell, J. Naish, W. Reid and R. Etheredge, "To Boldly Go Where No Robots Have Gone Before – Part 1: EELS Robot to Spearhead a New One-Shot Exploration Paradigm with In-situ Adaptation," AIAA Scitech 2024 Forum, Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 1-23, 08 January 2024.
  4. R. Thakker, M. Paton, M. Strub, M. Swan, T. Vaquero, B. Jones, G. Daddi, R. Royce, J. Bowkett, D. Loret de Mola Lemus, D. Pastor Moreno, Y. Kumar Nakka, K. Otsu, T. Hasseler, C. Leake, B. Nuernberger, P. Proenca, W. Talbot, A. Orekhov, A. Jain, M. Robinson, R. Etheredge, M. Travers, H. Choset, M. Ingham, J. Burdick and M. Ono, "To Boldly Go Where No Robots Have Gone Before – Part 4: NEO Autonomy for Robustly Exploring Unknown, Extreme Environments with Versatile Robots," AIAA Scitech 2024 Forum, Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 1-14, 08 January 2024.
2023
  1. W. Talbot, J. Nash, M. Paton, E. Ambrose, B. Metz, R. Thakker, R. Etheredge, M. Ono, V. Ila, "Principled ICP Covariance Modelling in Perceptually Degraded Environments for the EELS Mission Concept," 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 10763-10770, 01 October 2023.
  2. I. Nesnas, L. Kerber, G. Sellar, T. Balint, B. Denevi, A. Parness, R. Kornfeld, M. Smith, P. McGarey, T. Brown, E. Sunada, K. Gonter, B. Hockman, P. Hayne, T. Horvath, J. Hopkins, A. Johnson, R. Wagner, Y. Cheng, A. Curtis, K. Zacny, M. Paton, K. Sherrill, "Moon Diver: Exploring a pit's exposed strata to understand lunar volcanism," Acta Astronautica, Volume 211, pp. 163-176, 28 May 2023.
2020
  1. W. Reid, M. Paton, S. Karumanchi, B. Chamberlain-Simon, B. Emanuel, G. Meirion-Griffith, "Autonomous Navigation over Europa Analogue Terrain for an Actively Articulated Wheel-on-Limb Rover," 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intel ligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 1939-1946, 25 October 2020.
2018
  1. M. Paton, K. MacTavish, L.P. Berczi, S.K. van Es, and T.D. Barfoot, "I Can See for Miles and Miles: An Extended Field Test of Visual Teach and Repeat 2.0," Field and Service Robotics (FSR), p. 415-431, 01 January 2018.
2017
  1. M. Paton, F. Pomerleau, T.D. Barfoot, "Expanding the Limits of Vision-Based Localization for Long-Term Route-Following Autonomy," Journal of Field Robotics, Special Issue on Field and Service Robotics., p. 98-122, 01 January 2017.
2016
  1. M. Paton, K. MacTavish, M. Warren, and T.D. Barfoot, "Bridging the Appearance Gap: Multi-Experience Localization for Long-Term Visual Teach and Repeat," International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), p. 1918-1925, 01 January 2016.