
November 11, 2012
Andrew E. Johnson, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Landing and Roving on Mars
Lecture
3-4 pm, Ohio Union US Bank Conference Theatre; Reception: 4-5 pm, Ohio Staters Traditions Room
Johnson graduated with Highest Distinction from the University of Kansas in 1991 with a BS in Engineering Physics and a BS in Mathematics. In 1997, he received his PhD from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where he developed the spin-image surface signature for three dimensional object recognition and surface matching.
Currently, he is a principal member of the technical staff and supervisor of the GN&C Hardware and Testbed Development group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is developing image-based techniques for autonomous navigation and mapping during descent to planets moons, comets and asteroids.