Todd Templeton

Ph.D. Student [résumé][contact]
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley

Biography	Todd Templeton is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley, where he has studied since 2004. His advisor is Dr. Shankar Sastry. Since coming to UC Berkeley, Todd earned his M.S. in Electrical Engineering, entitled Autonomous Vision-based Rotorcraft Landing and Accurate Aerial Terrain Mapping in an Unknown Environment, in December, 2006. Prior to coming to Berkeley, he received his B.S.E in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in June, 2004.
Collaborators	Dr. Christopher Geyer Dr. Mikael Eklund Dr. Jonathan Sprinkle Dr. David Shim Dr. S. Shankar Sastry Jan Biermeyer Humberto Gonzalez Marci Meingast Nashlie Sephus
Affiliations	Robotics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory BEAR: Berkeley Aerobot Team Chess: Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems Computer Vision Group
Teaching & Mentoring	Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB-IT) (Mentor, Summer 2006) CS169, Software Engineering (Teaching Assistant, UC Berkeley, Fall 2004) ELE302, System Design and Analysis (Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Spring 2004)
Research	Computer vision, particularly terrain reconstruction and vehicle motion estimation Artificial intelligence Control Embedded systems Robotics, particularly unmanned aerial and ground vehicles
Current Projects	Berkeley-Sydney Driving Team (DARPA Grand Challenge III): Real-time Motion Segmentation Using Stereo Cameras Autonomous Rotorcraft Landing Using Computer Vision Autonomous Control of Ultralight Air Vehicles
Publications	H. Gonzalez, E. I. Grøtli, T. R. Templeton, J. O. Biermeyer, J. Sprinkle, and S. Shankar Sastry. Transitioning Control and Sensing Technologies from Fully-autonomous Driving to Driver Assistance Systems. Presented at AAET'08. Poster presented at BEARS'08. B. Upcroft, M. Moser, A. Makarenko, D. Johnson, A. Donikan, A. Alempijevic, R. Fitch, W. Uther, J. Biermeyer, H. Gonzalez, E. I. Grøtli, T. Templeton, V. P. Srini, J. Sprinkle. DARPA Urban Challenge Technical Paper: Sydney-Berkeley Driving Team. Technical report, University of Sydney; University of Technology, Sydney; University of California, Berkeley, June, 2007. J. M. Eklund, J. Sprinkle, T. Templeton, and S. Sastry. Transitioning Intelligence to Embedded Platforms. Presented at NATO RTO Symposium on Platform Innovations and System Integration for Unmanned Air, Land and Sea Vehicles '07. T. Templeton, D. H. Shim, C. Geyer, and S. Sastry. Autonomous Vision-based Landing and Terrain Mapping Using an MPC-controlled Unmanned Rotorcraft. Presented at ICRA'07. T. Templeton. Autonomous Vision-based Rotorcraft Landing and Accurate Aerial Terrain Mapping in an Unknown Environment. UC Berkeley EECS Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2007-18 (M.S. report). C. Geyer, T. Templeton, M. Meingast, and S. Sastry. The Recursive Multi-Frame Planar Parallax Algorithm. Presented at 3DPVT'06.
Other Activities	Whiteboard Courseware System NASA Vision Workbench CRRCSim: Charles River RC Flight Simulator
Contact	Email: Phone: (510) 643-5795 Office: 337 Cory Hall #9 Mailing address: University of California, Berkeley 205 Cory Hall #1772 Berkeley, CA 94720-1772 Shipping Address: UC Berkeley EECS ATTN: Todd Templeton / 337 Cory Hall #9 Shipping & Receiving 178 Cory Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-1774