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Citations
9532
World Ranking
4216
National Ranking
1514

Overview

Alonzo Kelly is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States and has contributed to the field of Computer Science with a focus on several interconnected subfields. Their research primarily encompasses Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, and Mechanical Engineering.

The main topics addressed by Kelly include Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, AI-based Problem Solving and Planning, and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence. These research interests are reflected across their published works.

Kelly has published recent papers in notable venues. In 2025, they authored The Heart and Art of Robotics: From AI to Artificial Emotional Intelligence in STEM Education which appeared in the Journal of Education in Science Environment and Health. Another paper, Graduated Fidelity Motion Planning, was published in 2021 in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search.

Frequent collaborators in Kelly's work include Christopher Dignam, C. Smith, and Mihail Pivtoraiko, reflecting a research network that bridges education, robotics, and algorithmic studies.

Kelly's publications are distributed mainly across two venues:

  • Journal of Education in Science Environment and Health
  • Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search

Throughout their career, Kelly has contributed to advancing understanding in robotic motion planning and the integration of emotional intelligence concepts within STEM education, showing interdisciplinary engagement between artificial intelligence and educational methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Autonomous driving in urban environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge

    Chris Urmson;Joshua Anhalt;Drew Bagnell;Christopher Baker

  • Differentially constrained mobile robot motion planning in state lattices

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  • Optimal Rough Terrain Trajectory Generation for Wheeled Mobile Robots

    Thomas M. Howard;Alonzo Kelly

  • Differentially constrained mobile robot motion planning in state lattices

    Mihail Pivtoraiko;Ross A. Knepper;Alonzo Kelly

  • Toward Reliable Off Road Autonomous Vehicles Operating in Challenging Environments

    Alonzo Kelly;Anthony Stentz;Omead Amidi;Mike Bode

  • Reactive Nonholonomic Trajectory Generation via Parametric Optimal Control

    Alonzo Kelly;Bryan Nagy

  • Obstacle detection for unmanned ground vehicles: a progress report

    L. Matthies;A. Kelly;T. Litwin;G. Tharp

  • State space sampling of feasible motions for high-performance mobile robot navigation in complex environments

    Thomas M. Howard;Colin J. Green;Alonzo Kelly;Dave Ferguson

  • State space sampling of feasible motions for high-performance mobile robot navigation in complex environments: Howard et al.: Mobile Robot Navigation in Complex Environments

    Thomas M. Howard;Colin J. Green;Alonzo Kelly;Dave Ferguson

  • Linearized Error Propagation in Odometry

    Alonzo Kelly

  • A new approach to vision-aided inertial navigation

    Jean-Philippe Tardif;Michael George;Michel Laverne;Alonzo Kelly

  • Efficient Constrained Path Planning via Search in State Lattices

    M. Pivtoraiko;A. Kelly

  • TRAJECTORY GENERATION FOR CAR-LIKE ROBOTS USING CUBIC CURVATURE POLYNOMIALS

    Bryan Nagy;Alonzo Kelly

  • A 3D State Space Formulation of a Navigation Kalman Filter for Autonomous Vehicles

    Alonzo Kelly

  • Rough Terrain Autonomous Mobility—Part 2: An Active Vision, Predictive Control Approach

    Alonzo Kelly;Anthony Stentz

  • CHIMP, the CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform

    Anthony Stentz;Herman Herman;Alonzo Kelly;Eric Meyhofer

  • An intelligent, predictive control approach to the high-speed cross-country autonomous navigation problem

    Alonzo James Kelly

  • Generating near minimal spanning control sets for constrained motion planning in discrete state spaces

    M. Pivtoraiko;A. Kelly

  • Kinodynamic motion planning with state lattice motion primitives

    Mihail Pivtoraiko;Alonzo Kelly

  • Model-Predictive Motion Planning: Several Key Developments for Autonomous Mobile Robots

    Thomas M. Howard;Mihail Pivtoraiko;Ross A. Knepper;Alonzo Kelly

  • Tartan Racing: A multi-modal approach to the DARPA Urban Challenge

    Chris Urmson;J. Andrew Bagnell;Christopher R. Baker;Martial Hebert

  • Toward Reliable Off Road Autonomous Vehicles Operating in Challenging Environments.

    Alonzo Kelly;Omead Amidi;Mike Bode;Michael Happold

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew A. Goldenberg
Andrew A. Goldenberg University of Toronto
Reid Simmons
Reid Simmons Carnegie Mellon University
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa University of Washington

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