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John M. Dolan is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research focuses on engineering and computer science, especially within subfields such as automotive engineering, control and systems engineering, artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, and aerospace engineering.

Their work addresses a range of topics including autonomous vehicle technology and safety, vehicle dynamics and control systems, real-time simulation and control systems, traffic control and management, reinforcement learning in robotics, robotic path planning algorithms, and advanced control systems optimization.

John M. Dolan has published extensively, with frequent contributions to venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), the 2022 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), the Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Recent papers authored by Dolan include:

  • "L-Shape Fitting-Based Vehicle Pose Estimation and Tracking Using 3D-LiDAR" (2021, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles)
  • "State Dropout-Based Curriculum Reinforcement Learning for Self-Driving at Unsignalized Intersections" (2022, 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS))
  • "Adaptive Safe Merging Control for Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicles using Parametric Control Barrier Functions" (2022, 2022 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV))
  • "Responsibility-associated Multi-agent Collision Avoidance with Social Preferences" (2022, 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC))
  • "Survey on Fish-Eye Cameras and Their Applications in Intelligent Vehicles" (2022, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems)

The scientist has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including Dvij Kalaria, Yiwei Lyu, Wenhao Luo, Qin Lin, and Lin Qin.

Best Publications

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

    Chris Urmson;Joshua Anhalt;Drew Bagnell;Christopher Baker

  • Motion planning for autonomous driving with a conformal spatiotemporal lattice

    Matthew McNaughton;Chris Urmson;John M. Dolan;Jin-Woo Lee

  • Online Verification of Automated Road Vehicles Using Reachability Analysis

    Matthias Althoff;John M. Dolan

  • Towards a viable autonomous driving research platform

    Junqing Wei;Jarrod M. Snider;Junsung Kim;John M. Dolan

  • A real-time motion planner with trajectory optimization for autonomous vehicles

    Wenda Xu;Junqing Wei;John M. Dolan;Huijing Zhao

  • Dynamic and loaded impedance components in the maintenance of human arm posture

    J.M. Dolan;M.B. Friedman;M.L. Nagurka

  • Road-Segmentation-Based Curb Detection Method for Self-Driving via a 3D-LiDAR Sensor

    Yihuan Zhang;Jun Wang;Xiaonian Wang;John M. Dolan

  • DLT-Net: Joint Detection of Drivable Areas, Lane Lines, and Traffic Objects

    Yeqiang Qian;John M. Dolan;Ming Yang

  • A prediction- and cost function-based algorithm for robust autonomous freeway driving

    Junqing Wei;John M. Dolan;Bakhtiar Litkouhi

  • Autonomous Driving in Traffic: Boss and the Urban Challenge

    Chris Urmson;Christopher R. Baker;John M. Dolan;Paul E. Rybski

  • Efficient L-shape fitting for vehicle detection using laser scanners

    Xiao Zhang;Wenda Xu;Chiyu Dong;John M. Dolan

  • Autonomous driving merge management system

    Bakhtiar Brian Litkouhi;Junqing Wei;John M. Dolan

  • A behavioral planning framework for autonomous driving

    Junqing Wei;Jarrod M. Snider;Tianyu Gu;John M. Dolan

  • Focused Trajectory Planning for autonomous on-road driving

    Tianyu Gu;Jarrod Snider;John M. Dolan;Jin-woo Lee

  • Autonomous vehicle social behavior for highway entrance ramp management

    Junqing Wei;John M. Dolan;Bakhtiar Litkouhi

  • Unified motion planning algorithm for autonomous driving vehicle in obstacle avoidance maneuver

    Jin-woo Lee;Upali Priyantha Mudalige;Tianyu Gu;John M. Dolan

  • Adaptive multi-robot wide-area exploration and mapping

    Kian Hsiang Low;John M. Dolan;Pradeep Khosla

  • On-Road motion planning for autonomous vehicles

    Tianyu Gu;John M. Dolan

  • Multi-robot informative path planning for active sensing of environmental phenomena: a tale of two algorithms

    Nannan Cao;Kian Hsiang Low;John M. Dolan

  • Information-theoretic approach to efficient adaptive path planning for mobile robotic environmental sensing

    Kian Hsiang Low;John M. Dolan;Pradeep Khosla

  • Lane-Change Intention Estimation for Car-Following Control in Autonomous Driving

    Yihuan Zhang;Qin Lin;Jun Wang;Sicco Verwer

Frequent Co-Authors

Pradeep K. Khosla
Pradeep K. Khosla University of California, San Diego
Bakhtiar Brian Litkouhi
Bakhtiar Brian Litkouhi General Motors (United States)
Jeff Schneider
Jeff Schneider Carnegie Mellon University
Matthias Althoff
Matthias Althoff Technical University of Munich
Jie Chen
Jie Chen Beijing Institute of Technology
Ragunathan Rajkumar
Ragunathan Rajkumar Carnegie Mellon University
Maxim Likhachev
Maxim Likhachev Carnegie Mellon University
William Whittaker
William Whittaker Carnegie Mellon University
Gaurav S. Sukhatme
Gaurav S. Sukhatme University of Southern California
Alonzo Kelly
Alonzo Kelly Carnegie Mellon University

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