Paul J. Perrone
I’m both a real-world practicing roboticist, someone who has had experience in front of the camera, has presented to large audiences, and who makes communicating ideas and concepts behind complex robotics and automation applications part of everyday life. As founder of Perrone Robotics (www.perronerobotics.com), I’m involved with the day-to-day invention and creation of complex robotics and automation applications. One example of an extreme application includes creating completely autonomous robotic cars for the DARPA Grand Challenge and DARPA Urban Challenge as team lead and lead engineer behind Team Jefferson (www.teamjefferson.com). In such capacity, I’ve also been featured in Discovery Science’s “Robocars” series and in a theatrical documentary “Autopilots” (www.robotworldmedia.com). I’ve also demonstrated and presented such robotic cars and other creations such as unmanned air vehicles to large audiences at popular conference such as during JavaOne conference keynote presentations in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Other projects include imbuing machines such as Neil Young’s LincVolt vehicle (www.lincvolt.com), building machines for real-world military and civilian surveillance and security applications, and generally creating tele-operated and autonomous air, ground, and sea vehicles, of all shapes and sizes with remote commanded and intelligent self-directed behavior. Aside from being intimately involved with every detail of such creations, I take great pains to distill how such systems are made and operate to the general public as both a public speaker and presenter, as well as author of numerous books and papers.
Links/Media:
Company: www.perronerobotics.com
DARPA Team: www.teamjefferson.com
Discovery Science Robocars (Episodes 1 and 3): http://science.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=48.15159.122178.35769.x
Autopilots documentary teaser: http://www.robotworldmedia.com/movies/autopilots_trailer_h264.mov
DARPA Urban Challenge vehicle: http://www.teamjefferson.com/?q=node/57
Presenting an autonomous robotic car at JavaOne 2008: http://www.perronerobotics.com/?q=node/27
DARPA Grand and Urban Challenge vehicles: http://www.teamjefferson.com/?q=news/TomJrVideo
Presenting an unmanned air vehicle at JavaOne 2007 (6:55 minutes into clip): http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/2007/media_shell.jsp?id=194214
Bio:
Paul
J. Perrone is the
founder and CEO of Perrone RoboticsTM providing software platforms
and solutions for robotics and automation applications. Paul is the architect
behind Perrone Robotics’ patent pending MAXTM technology which
serves as a general purpose robotics and automation software platform. Paul
also spawned and led ‘Team Jefferson’ to build an autonomous robotic vehicle
named ‘Tommy’ based on MAX for participation in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
events and race of autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs). Since then, he has
continued to push MAX technology and its extensions into commercial use. In
2007, Paul re-formed Team Jefferson with personnel from Perrone Robotics and
the University of Virginia School of Engineering to participate in the 2007
DARPA Urban Challenge, a city driving robotic car race, fielding ‘Tommy
Junior’, an autonomous commercial vehicle. Prior to Perrone Robotics, Paul
founded Assured Technologies in 1998 which continues to successfully provide
high-assurance distributed software solutions to Fortune 500 organizations and
spent his graduate school and subsequent commercial professional life from
1992-1998 working advanced R&D projects in the unmanned and autonomous
railway application space. Paul is also an occasional expert witness, frequent
speaker, and author of numerous books, papers, and publications. Paul has a
B.S.E.E. from