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Andrew E. Johnson

Andrew E. Johnson

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
34
Citations
9417
World Ranking
9114
National Ranking
2544

Overview

Andrew E. Johnson is affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Lab in the United States and contributes to research primarily in the fields of physics, astronomy, and engineering. Their work spans several subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, aerospace engineering, physiology, computer vision and pattern recognition, and safety, risk, reliability, and quality.

The main topics addressed in Johnson's research cover planetary science and exploration, astro and planetary science, robotics and sensor-based localization, spaceflight effects on biology, space satellite systems and control, inertial sensor and navigation, and spacecraft dynamics and control.

Johnson has published research in various scientific venues including:

  • Statistics in Medicine
  • AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum
  • Space Science Reviews
  • Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics
  • Acta Astronautica

Frequent collaborators of Johnson include Yang Cheng, Els Goetghebeur, Robert W. Platt, Stephen Raywood, and A Sequerra.

Some of Johnson's recent papers are:

  • The Mars 2020 Engineering Cameras and Microphone on the Perseverance Rover: A Next-Generation Imaging System for Mars Exploration (2020, Space Science Reviews)
  • Implementation of a Map Relative Localization System for Planetary Landing (2023, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics)
  • Mars 2020 Lander Vision System Flight Performance (2022, AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum)
  • Making an Onboard Reference Map From MRO/CTX Imagery for Mars 2020 Lander Vision System (2021, Earth and Space Science)
  • Moon Diver: Exploring a pit's exposed strata to understand lunar volcanism (2023, Acta Astronautica)

Best Publications

  • Using spin images for efficient object recognition in cluttered 3D scenes

    A.E. Johnson;M. Hebert

  • Registration and integration of textured 3D data

    Andrew Edie Johnson;Sing Bing Kang

  • Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation for Spacecraft Entry, Descent, and Landing

    A.I. Mourikis;N. Trawny;S.I. Roumeliotis;A.E. Johnson

  • Surface matching for object recognition in complex three-dimensional scenes

    Andrew Edie Johnson;Martial Hebert

  • Surface registration by matching oriented points

    A.E. Johnson;M. Hebert

  • Augmenting inertial navigation with image-based motion estimation

    S.I. Roumeliotis;A.E. Johnson;J.F. Montgomery

  • Computer Vision on Mars

    Larry Matthies;Mark Maimone;Andrew Johnson;Yang Cheng

  • Lidar-Based Hazard Avoidance for Safe Landing on Mars

    Andrew E. Johnson;Allan R. Klumpp;James B. Collier;Aron A. Wolf

  • Registration and integration of textured 3-D data

    A.E. Johnson;Sing Bing Kang

  • Vision-aided inertial navigation for pin-point landing using observations of mapped landmarks

    Nikolas Trawny;Anastasios I. Mourikis;Stergios I. Roumeliotis;Andrew Edie Johnson

  • Vision Guided Landing of an Autonomous Helicopter in Hazardous Terrain

    A. Johnson;J. Montgomery;L. Matthies

  • Overview of Terrain Relative Navigation Approaches for Precise Lunar Landing

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  • Recognizing objects by matching oriented points

    A.E. Johnson;M. Hebert

  • Robust and Efficient Stereo Feature Tracking for Visual Odometry

    A.E. Johnson;S.B. Goldberg;Yang Cheng;L.H. Matthies

  • Optical landmark detection for spacecraft navigation

    Yang Cheng;Andrew E. Johnson;Larry H. Matthies;Clark F. Olson

  • Initial results of rover localization and topographic mapping for the 2003 mars exploration rover mission

    Rongxing Li;Steven W Squyres;Raymond E Arvidson;Brent A Archinal

  • Precise Image-Based Motion Estimation for Autonomous Small Body Exploration

    Andrew Edie Johnson;Larry H. Matthies

  • Analysis of On-Board Hazard Detection and Avoidance for Safe Lunar Landing

    A.E. Johnson;A. Huertas;R.A. Werner;J.F. Montgomery

  • Design Through Operation of an Image-Based Velocity Estimation System for Mars Landing

    Andrew Johnson;Reg Willson;Yang Cheng;Jay Goguen

  • Efficient multiple model recognition in cluttered 3-D scenes

    A.E. Johnson;M. Hebert

  • Spirit rover localization and topographic mapping at the landing site of Gusev crater, Mars

    Rongxing Li;Brent A. Archinal;Raymond E. Arvidson;Jim Bell

  • Machine vision for autonomous small body navigation

    A.E. Johnson;Yang Cheng;L.H. Matthies

  • A system for semi-automatic modeling of complex environments

    A.E. Johnson;R. Hoffman;J. Osborn;M. Hebert

  • A General Approach to Terrain Relative Navigation for Planetary Landing

    Andrew E. Johnson;Adnan Ansar;Larry H. Matthies;Nikolas Trawny

  • ADAPT demonstrations of onboard large-divert Guidance with a VTVL rocket

    Daniel P. Scharf;Martin W. Regehr;Geoffery M. Vaughan;Joel Benito

  • Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation for Precise Planetary Landing: Analysis and Experiments

    Anastasios I. Mourikis;Nikolas Trawny;Stergios I. Roumeliotis;Andrew Edie Johnson

  • The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Autonomous Helicopter Testbed: A platform for planetary exploration technology research and development

    James F. Montgomery;Andrew Edie Johnson;Stergios I. Roumeliotis;Larry H. Matthies

  • Flight testing of trajectories computed by G-FOLD: Fuel optimal large divert guidance algorithm for planetary landing

    Behçet Açikmeşe;Mi Mi Aung;Jordi Casoliva;Swati Mohan

  • Vision-aided inertial navigation for pin-point landing using observations of mapped landmarks: Research Articles

    Nikolas Trawny;Anastasios I. Mourikis;Stergios I. Roumeliotis;Andrew E. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry Matthies
Larry Matthies Jet Propulsion Lab
Martial Hebert
Martial Hebert Carnegie Mellon University
Stergios I. Roumeliotis
Stergios I. Roumeliotis University of Minnesota
Anastasios I. Mourikis
Anastasios I. Mourikis University of California, Riverside
Behcet Acikmese
Behcet Acikmese The University of Texas at Austin
Sing Bing Kang
Sing Bing Kang Zillow Group (United States)
James F. Bell
James F. Bell Arizona State University
Steven W. Squyres
Steven W. Squyres Cornell University
Justin N. Maki
Justin N. Maki Jet Propulsion Lab
Matthew P. Golombek
Matthew P. Golombek California Institute of Technology

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