Gregory Dudek
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Gregory Dudek is a professor of computer science at McGill University and was the Director of the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines from 2004 to 2007. The son of Louis Dudek, he was made a Dawson Scholar of that university (an honorary title) and directs the mobile robotics laboratory there. He was awarded a James McGill chair in 2008. According to his biography, he has written over 150 refereed articles on computer vision and robotics as of 2005, and is co-author (with Michael Jenkin) of the book Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics which is used to teach robotics at a number of universities.
His lab among the first in Canada to deal substantively and specifically with issues concerning mobile robotic systems. Prof. Dudek has an Erdős number of 3, having co-authored a paper with Sue Whitesides.
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His research deals with sensing for robots and has included theoretical work on the complexity of robot localization and the development of underwater and amphibious robots. He has worked on the use of topological maps and the complexity of topological mapping, an abstract idealized form of robotics problem. He has also looked at robot position estimation using photographic data, and the automated detection of interesting images.
