David Seidel
Papers
3
Total Citations
36
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3
About
David Seidel is a leading researcher in autonomous vehicle systems, with a primary focus on distributed architectures for large unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). His most influential work, "A distributed, multi-language architecture for large unmanned ground vehicles" (2008, 23 citations), presents a pioneering design for a network of low-cost, off-the-shelf UGVs, building directly on lessons from the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. This paper’s distributed, multi-language approach was a key contribution, enabling scalable and flexible robotic control. Seidel further demonstrated this expertise as a core member of the MITRE Meteor team, which fielded an autonomous vehicle for the same DARPA race. His papers detailing the Meteor vehicle’s design and software (2006, 3 citations; 2007, 10 citations) describe how the team integrated sensing, actuation, and computer control to achieve off-road autonomy. Together, these works establish Seidel’s impact in advancing practical, real-world autonomous navigation, with his architectural insights continuing to inform UGV development.
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- 2MITRE Meteor: An Off-Road Autonomous Vehicle for DARPA’s Grand Challenge10 citations · 2007
- 3MITRE Meteor: An off‐road autonomous vehicle for DARPA's Grand Challenge3 citations · 2006