Chuck Thorpe is Dean of the Carnegie Mellon branch campus in Qatar. He has been a member of The Robotics Institute since its founding in 1979, and was Director from 2000 to 2004.
Since 1984, he has worked on the development of outdoor robotic vehicles, focusing on computer vision, planning and architectures for these machines. Thorpe and his Navlab research group have built a series of 11 robotic cars, trucks, and buses for military and civilian research. He and his team have pioneered new methods in stereo vision, laser rangefinding, 3-D terrain modeling, neural networks for perception, route planning, driver performance modeling, traffic simulation, teleoperation, vehicle control on rough terrain and system architectures.
He received his doctor's degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon in 1984 and his undergraduate degree in natural science from North Park College in Chicago, Ill. in 1979.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
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