Chris Urmson

Why Is Chris Urmson Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Chris Urmson is a Canadian engineer, academic, and entrepreneur known for his work on self-driving car technology. He cofounded Aurora Innovation, a company developing self-driving technology, in 2017 and serves as its CEO. Urmson was instrumental in pioneering and advancing the development of self-driving vehicles since the early 2000s.

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Chris Urmson's Published Works

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Published Works

Autonomous driving in urban environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge (2008) (1744)
Approaches for heuristically biasing RRT growth (2003) (335)
Motion planning for autonomous driving with a conformal spatiotemporal lattice (2011) (274)
Traffic light mapping and detection (2011) (187)
A robust approach to high‐speed navigation for unrehearsed desert terrain (2006) (183)
Moving object detection with laser scanners (2013) (141)
GRACE: An Autonomous Robot for the AAAI Robot Challenge (2003) (141)
Detection, prediction, and avoidance of dynamic obstacles in urban environments (2008) (135)
Obstacle Detection and Tracking for the Urban Challenge (2009) (134)
Self-Driving Cars and the Urban Challenge (2008) (133)
Tartan Racing: A multi-modal approach to the DARPA Urban Challenge (2007) (130)
Autonomous Driving in Traffic: Boss and the Urban Challenge (2009) (125)
High Speed Navigation of Unrehearsed Terrain: Red Team Technology for Grand Challenge 2004 (2004) (101)
Classification and tracking of dynamic objects with multiple sensors for autonomous driving in urban environments (2008) (91)
Skyworker: a robot for assembly, inspection and maintenance of large scale orbital facilities (2001) (81)
A generic framework for robotic navigation (2003) (51)
Sun-Synchronous Robotic Exploration: Technical Description and Field Experimentation (2005) (44)
Stereo vision based navigation for Sun-synchronous exploration (2002) (42)
AXIAL SHORTENING OF STEEL COLUMNS IN BUILDINGS SUBJECTED TO EARTHQUAKES (2009) (40)
Local Buckling Analysis of Longitudinal Reinforcing Bars (2012) (39)
First experiment in sun-synchronous exploration (2002) (34)
First Experiments in the Robotic Investigation of Life in the Atacama Desert of Chile (2005) (34)
ROBOTICS FOR ASSEMBLY, INSPECTION, AND MAINTENANCE OF SPACE MACROFACILITIES (2000) (29)
Navigation regimes for off-road autonomy (2005) (23)
Exploiting publicly available cartographic resources for aerial image analysis (2012) (22)
Self-Supervised Aerial Image Analysis for Extracting Parking Lot Structure (2009) (22)
A perception mechanism for supporting autonomous intersection handling in urban driving (2008) (22)
Software Infrastructure for an Autonomous Ground Vehicle (2008) (21)
Robotic Assembly of Space Solar Power Facilities (2001) (21)
Utilizing prior information to enhance self-supervised aerial image analysis for extracting parking lot structures (2009) (20)
An Adaptive Model Switching Approach for a Multisensor Tracking System used for Autonomous Driving in an Urban Environment (2008) (13)
Ortho-image analysis for producing lane-level highway maps (2012) (11)
GRACE and GEORGE: Autonomous Robots for the AAAI Robot Challenge (2003) (10)
Building lane-graphs for autonomous parking (2010) (10)
Preplanning for high performance autonomous traverse of desert terrain exploiting a priori knowledge to optimize speeds and to detail paths (2005) (10)
A Hierarchical Image Analysis for Extracting Parking Lot Structures from Aerial Images (2009) (9)
Vehicle Detection and Tracking for the Urban Challenge (2008) (9)
Driving Beyond Stopping Distance Constraints (2006) (9)
Complexity to Target Risky Modules in Autonomous Vehicle Systems (2008) (9)
From Automated Highways to Urban Challenges (2008) (7)
A Sensor Arm for Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search (2001) (7)
Augmenting cartographic resources for autonomous driving (2009) (6)
Locally Randomized Kinodynamic Motion Planning for Robots in Extreme Terrain (2002) (5)
A Multisensor Multiobject Tracking System for an Autonomous Vehicle Driving in an Urban Environment (2008) (4)
Testing driver skill for high-speed autonomous vehicles (2006) (4)
Ultimate Limit State Response of Reinforced Concrete Columns for Use in Performance-Based Analysis and Design (2010) (2)
FAHR: Focused A* Heuristic Recomputation (2009) (2)
A Complete System for High-Speed Navigation of Prescribed Routes (2006) (1)
Low Cost Fault Detection Isolation and Recovery Implemented on an Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle (2004) (1)
Software Infrastructure for a Mobile Robot (2015) (1)
Delivering the Benefits of Self-Driving Technology Safely, Quickly, and Broadly (2018) (0)
The Urban Challenge (2009) (0)
Urban Challenge Final Report for Tartan Racing Submitted to Dr . Norm Whitaker In partial fulfillment of Milestone 4 contract requirements for contract (2012) (0)
Adapting to Intra-Class Variations using Incremental Retraining with Exploratory Sampling (2010) (0)

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