Dr. Maxim Likhachev is an Associate Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute and National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC). His research interests include real-time planning, graph search-based planning and probabilistic planning with applications to ground and aerial vehicle navigation; mobile manipulation; articulated robots; and teams of robots operating under communication constraints and other constraints.  He joined NREC in 2010. 

Dr. Likhachev earned a BS in Mathematics and an ME in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology (1999), and a PhD and MS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (2005).  In addition to his appointment at NREC and the Robotics Institute, he is an adjunct faculty member of the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory.

Projects:
Laser Coating Removal for Aircraft; RCTA; various projects with Willow Garage; Urban Challenge

Interests:
Motion Planning and Execution; Manipulation; Multi-Vehicle Coordination

For a more detailed description of Dr. Likhachev’s research interests and papers, see:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maxim/