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Karl J. Obermeyer

PhD Candidate
Mechanical Engineering
Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation
College of Engineering
University of California at Santa Barbara

Lab: Engineering Building II, Room 2217
Email: [my first name all lower case] [at] umail.ucsb.edu
Tel: +001 303.818.1668


Current Research

I am working on visibility problems for mobile sensor networks and UAVs (Unmanned Air Vehicles). In particular, I design distributed and centralized algorithms for planning sensor motions so that certain line-of-sight conditions can be achieved or maintained in nonconvex environments. My advisor is Prof. Francesco Bullo. Though not my main focus, I am also interested in computational geometry, algorithmic complexity theory, geometric mechanics, and quantization.


Projects
Centralized Searchlight Scheduling
Distributed Searchlight Scheduling
Distributed Deployment for Visibility Coverage
UAV Path Planning for Visual Reconnaissance
VisiLibity: Floating-Point Visibility Computations









Publications



Background

Curriculum Vitae (last updated winter 2006)



Misc.

[FSF Associate Member]

Links
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Media
Some of my Clumsy Mountain Bike Trials