Email: pbeeson@cs.utexas.edu
Office: Computer Sciences Annex (CSA) 1.136 |
I am currently a doctoral candidate in the
Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at
Austin. My advisor is Benjamin Kuipers.
Update:
My plans to graduate in August 2007 were postponed while I worked with
Peter Stone (and his class of awesome undergraduates) and Austin Robot
Technology on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Our team, whose main
focus was on education, placed in the top 21 teams at the National
Qualifying Event.
Spring 2008, I am teaching an undergraduate
course (cs378) that follows up on the
success of last year's class. I still plan to graduate by August
2008. |
My general areas of interest are Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Robotics, and Cognitive Science. More specifically, I am
investigating reliable ways for mobile robots to detect, classify, and
recognize places in the world. Generating and maintaining
symbolic, discrete representations of large environments enhances
robot control, planning, and communication. This work, along
with related research in human-robot interaction (HRI), is being
evaluated on an Intelligent Wheelchair platform.
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