Larry Matthies
Technology Coordinator, Mars Exploration Program at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Role
- Senior Research Scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Location
- Pasadena, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Larry Matthies
39 years of experience in computer vision R&D for autonomous navigation of robotic ground and air vehicles on Earth and in space. Research emphasis in 3-D perception, visual robot motion estimation, and terrain classification for autonomous navigation. 37 years experience in successful research fund-raising, 21 years of experience in line management. Principal Investigator in many robotics-related research programs funded by NASA, DARPA, Army, and Navy sponsors. Pioneered development of many computer vision-related capabilities that had and will have high impact on solar system exploration, including stereo vision and visual odometry for Mars rovers, vision algorithms for safe and precise landing, FPGA-based coprocessor for robot vision, visual navigation of Mars rotorcraft, and using commercial-grade, system-on-a-chip processors for Mars rotorcraft. Lectured in vision-based robot navigation at Caltech. Member of the editorial board for the Journal of Field Robotics and the Autonomous Robotics Journal. Fellow of the since 2008. Currently, Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Technology Coordinator for the JPL Mars Exploration Program.
Experience
Senior Research Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jun 2001 — Present · Pasadena, CA, US
Education
University of Waterloo
Masters of Mathematics, Computer graphics
1979 — 1981
University of Regina
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
1975 — 1979
Carnege Mellon University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science
1989
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