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William Reid

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 198-219

Pasadena, CA 91101

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347F - Robotic Mobility

William Reid

Group Leader

Biography

Will Reid is a robotics technologist investigating wheel-on-leg mobility modes for efficient traversals on Enceladus and Europa analogue terrains. Will received a Ph.D. from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney in 2018. His PhD thesis investigated system design, motion modelling and path planning for a high degree-of-freedom wheel-on-leg robot operating on a Martian analogue terrain. Will has also worked with the European Space Agency and German Aerospace Centre on a sounding rocket experiment to investigate aerosol particle distribution in the middle atmosphere. He received a Bachelors degree of Mechatronics Engineering and Bachelors of Computer Science from the University of Melbourne in 2012.

Education

Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, Australia, 2018
Ph.D. Robotics Engineering

University of Melbourne, Australia, 2012
B.Eng. Mechatronics Engineering
B.Eng. Computer Science

Professional Experience

Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018-Present
Robotics Technologist

Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher

Abyss Solutions 2017
Robotics Systems Engineer

Research Interests

- Robotic mobility over unstructured terrain.
- Design of actively articulated mobility systems for hybrid wheeled and legged locomotion.
- Motion planning for high degree-of-freedom mobile platforms.
- Mobility navigation and control techniques for robustly traversing unstructured terrain.

Publications

2024
  1. T. S. Vaquero, G. Daddi, R. Thakker, M. Paton, A. Jasour, M. Strub, R. M. Swan, R. Royce, M. Gildner, P. Tosi, M. Veismann, P. Gavrilov, E. Marteau, J. Bowkett, D. Loret de Mola Lemus, Y. Kumar Nakka, B. Hockman, A. Orekhov, T. Hasseler, C. Leake, B. Nuernberger, P. Proenca, W. Reid, W. Talbot, N. Georgiev, T. Pailevanian, A. Archanian, E. Ambrose, J. Jasper, R. Etheredge, C. Roman, D. Levine, K. Otsu, S. Yearicks, H. Melikyan, R. Rieber, K. Carpenter, J. Nash, A. Jain, L. Shiraishi, M. Robinson, M. Travers, H. Choset, J. Burdick, A. Gardner, M. Cable, M. Ingham, and M. Ono, "EELS: Autonomous Snake-like Robot with Task and Motion Planning Capabilities for Ice World Exploration," Science Robotics, vol. 9, no. 88, 13 March 2024.
  2. W. Reid, T. Bartlett, A. Bouton, M. Strub, M. Newby, S. Gerdts, J. Martin, S. Moreland, and R. McCormick, "Planning and Control for Autonomous Drives of the Mars Sample Recovery Helicopter," 2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-11, 02 March 2024.
  3. M. Ono, R. Thakker, N. Georgiev, P. Gavrilov, A. Archanian, T. Drevinskas, G. Daddi, M. Paton, H. Melikyan, T. Pailevanian, C. Lopez, E. Ambrose, B. Jones, L. Tosi, M. Gildner, B. Hockman, D. Loret de Mola Lemus, D. Pastor Moreno, T. Hasseler, Y. Kumar Nakka, E. Marteau, B. Nuernberger, M. Peticco, M. Cable, P. Proenca, M. Malaska, J. Bowkett, A. Jasour, M. Ingham, J. Nash, D. Balentine, A. Barchowsky, F. Bevreng, K. Botteon, M. Caballero, K. Carpenter, M. Chodas, A. Daca, J. Feldman, A. Gardner, A. Goddu, A. Jain, C. Jin, M. Khanum, R. Kornfeld, G. Mark, B. Morrell, J. Naish, W. Reid and R. Etheredge, "To Boldly Go Where No Robots Have Gone Before – Part 1: EELS Robot to Spearhead a New One-Shot Exploration Paradigm with In-situ Adaptation," AIAA Scitech 2024 Forum, Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 1-23, 08 January 2024.
2023
  1. Arthur Bouton, William Reid, Travis Brown, Adriana Daca, Mielad Sabzehi, and Hari Nayar, "Experimental Study of Alternative Rover Configurations and Mobility Modes for Planetary Exploration," 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-13, 04 March 2023.
2022
  1. C. Webster, W. Reid, "A Comparative Rover Mobility Evaluation for Traversing Permanently Shadowed Regions on the Moon," 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), Big Sky, MT, USA, 05 March 2022.
2021
  1. K. Carpenter, M. L. Cable, M. Choukroun, S. Iacoponi, S. Moreland, M. Heverly, H. Nayar, B. Kennedy, J. Bowkett, W. Reid, "The Science Case for Surface Mobility on Icy Worlds," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 53, p. 186, 01 May 2021.
  2. W. Reid, G. Meirion-Griffith, S. Karumanchi, B. Emanuel, B. Chamberlain-Simon, J. Bowkett, M. Garrett, "Actively Articulated Wheel-on-Limb Mobility for Traversing Europa Analogue Terrain," Field and Service Robotics: Results of the 12th International Conference, pp. 337-351, 13 January 2021.
  3. K. Carpenter, M. Cable, M. Choukroun, H. Ono, R. Thakker, M. Ingham, P. McGarey, A. Barchowski, S. Iacoponi, J. Bowkett, W. Reid, E. Marteou, "Venture Deep, the Path of Least Resistance: Crevasse-Based Ocean Access Without the Need to Dig or Drill," Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 356, 01 January 2021.
2020
  1. W. Reid, M. Paton, S. Karumanchi, B. Chamberlain-Simon, B. Emanuel, G. Meirion-Griffith, "Autonomous Navigation over Europa Analogue Terrain for an Actively Articulated Wheel-on-Limb Rover," 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intel ligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 1939-1946, 25 October 2020.
  2. W. Reid, R. Fitch, A. H. Gökto§an, S. Sukkarieh, "Motion Planning for Reconfigurable Mobile Robots Using Hierarchical Fast Marching Trees," Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XII: Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, pp. 656-671, 07 May 2020.
  3. W. Reid, B. Emanuel, B. Chamberlain-Simon, S. Karumanchi, G. Meirion-Griffith, "Mobility Mode Evaluation of a Wheel-on-Limb Rover on Glacial Ice Analogous to Europa Terrain," IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, 07 March 2020.
  4. P. Tavallali, S. Karumanchi, J. Bowkett, W. Reid, B. Kennedy, "A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Space Missions in Unknown Environments," IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, 07 March 2020.
2019
  1. W. Reid, R. Fitch, A. H. Göktogan, S. Sukkarieh, "Sampling-Based Hierarchical Motion Planning for a Reconfigurable Wheel-on-Leg Planetary Analogue Exploration Rover," Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 786-811, 22 October 2019.
  2. P. McGarey, W. Reid, I. Nesnas, "Towards Articulated Mobility and Efficient Docking for the DuAxel Tethered Robot System," 2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 05 March 2019.
2016
  1. W. Reid, F. J. Pérez-Grau, A. H. Gökto§an, S. Sukkarieh, "Actively Articulated Suspension for a Wheel-on-Leg Rover Operating on a Martian Analog Surface," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 55965602, 16 May 2016.