May 22, 2024 | 10:00 EDT / 16:00 CEST / 23:00 JST » View Recording
Speaker: Christopher Goodin, Ph.D., Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University
This talk will introduce MAVS—the MSU Autonomous Vehicle Simulator—and show examples of how it is being used in the classroom as an instructional tool for autonomous vehicles, by graduate students for research, and by researchers around the world in a variety of military and commercial applications. The technical underpinnings of the MAVS will also be presented.
Christopher Goodin
Christopher Goodin received his B.S. in mathematics and physics from Mississippi College in 2004, and M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt University in 2006 and 2008, respectively. From 2008-2017, he worked with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, MS, developing physics-based simulations of ground vehicles, sensors, and robotics and serving as the lead developer for the Virtual Autonomous Navigation Environment (VANE) and the Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments for Ground Vehicles (CREATE-GV). Since 2017, he has been a research faculty with the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), Mississippi State University, specializing in the study of autonomous ground vehicles. At CAVS, Dr. Goodin is the lead developer of the MSU Autonomous Vehicle Simulator (MAVS), a simulation library for autonomous ground vehicles, and the NATURE off-road autonomy software stack.
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