John J. Leonard

John J. Leonard
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
Known forSimultaneous localization and mapping[1]
AwardsNational Science Foundation Career Award (1998)
Scientific career
FieldsRobotics
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Websitemarinerobotics.mit.edu

John J. Leonard is an American roboticist and Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Leonard is a researcher in simultaneous localization and mapping,[2][3] and was the team lead for MIT's team at the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, one of the six teams to cross the finish line in the final event, placing fourth overall.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference CV was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Leonard, J.J.; Durrant-whyte, H.F. (1992). Directed Sonar Sensing for Mobile Robot Navigation. Springer.
  3. ^ Leonard, J.J.; Durrant-whyte, H.F.; Cox, I.J. (1992). "Dynamic Map Building for an Autonomous Mobile Robot". The International Journal of Robotics Research. 11 (4): 286. doi:10.1177/027836499201100402. S2CID 120016766. Retrieved 2008-07-09.