Resume

• 2000

  Ph.D.

  Integrating Planning and Control for Constrained Dynamical Systems

  Robotics

  Robotics Institute\nIEEE\nASME

• 1998

  M.S.

  Sensor Fusion

  Navigation

  and Control of Autonomous Vehicles

  Mechanical Engineering

  Developed perception

  planning

  and control software for entry into Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. Member of ASME

• 1985

  English

  B.S.

  Mechanical Engineering

  Cooperative education (alternate work/school program - 8 sessions)\nASME

• CNURobotics

  Robot videos from our research group contact: robotics@cnu.edu

  CNURobotics YouTube Channel

  Directory

  David C. Conner directs CHRISLab

  the Capable Humanitarian Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab

  where they focus on the autonomous control of mechanical systems that are commonly called “robots”. This is accomplished using a mix of computer...

  CNU Directory

  Robotics

  Algorithms

  Motion planning

  Computer Vision

  Mechanical Engineering

  Control Systems Design

  C++

  Computer Science

  Matlab

  Software Development

  Robot

  Sensors

  Path Planning

  C

  Artificial Intelligence

  Simulations

  Perception

  Programming

  Control Theory

  Sensor Fusion

  Team ViGIR

  Team ViGIR was a multi-national research and development collaboration that participated in the DARPA Robotics Challenge

  Conner

  David

  Conner

  TRAX Corporation

  TORC Robotics

  Virginia Tech

  Christopher Newport University

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Blacksburg

  VA

  Principal Investigator

  Technical Lead

  and software developer for research related projects in autonomony

  motion planning

  and perception related to ground robotics.\n\nServed as Principal Investigator for Team ViGIR during the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

  Senior Research Scientist

  TORC Robotics

  Forest

  VA

  Develop full scope simulations for power and process industries. The simulations were used for operator training and control system checkout.\n\nServed as software developer and project manager.

  Lead engineer

  TRAX Corporation

  Technical lead and software developer on projects related to autonomous ground robotics. Specific emphases on perception

  prediction

  and motion planning during this time period. \n\nDevelop research concepts for proposals.

  TORC Technologies

  Research Assistant

  Academic research while pursuing M.S. and Ph.D. degrees\n\nFocused on hybrid control policy synthesis applied to mobile robots

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Teaching Assistant

  Supervise senior design project while working on masters degree.\n\nDeveloped perception

  planning

  and control software for autonomous ground vehicle.

  Virginia Tech

  Christopher Newport University

  Newport News

  VA

  Working to develop the next generation of engineers and computer scientists at Christopher Newport University

  where I teach Introduction to Computer Programming (CS2)

  Artificial Intelligence

  Robotics

  and Parallel Processing. I conduct research with undergraduate and master’s students into defining low-level system capabilities in a manner that admits formal composition and synthesis techniques.

  Assistant Professor of Computer Science

  IEEE

  ASME