About

I have been working in robotics since 2001 on many different types of vehicles.

My CV can be found at denewiler.us/cv.

Current

Currently working on large autonomous ground vehicles as shown by the New York Times. I am responsible for testing and merging new features and improvements into the baseline configuration.

Graduate School

During graduate school I worked on the Stingray autonomous underwater vehicle. I was the software lead for several of the AUVSI underwater vehicle competitions. Most of the code and wiki pages from that project are now hosted at stingray-auv.

I finished my Master’s degree in 2011. My thesis involved state estimation and model-based waypoint following for small ground vehicles. A compiled version of my thesis is available at denewiler.us/thesis.pdf. Source files for my thesis are on GitHub.

I wrote lecture notes in Latex (available on my GitHub page) for several courses:

• Parameter Estimation
• Optimal Control
• Nonlinear Systems

An empty template for creating lecture notes is available as well.

Previous

Previously I worked on projects involving:

• Security robots
• Landing and refueling autonomous helicopters on autonomous ground vehicles

Publications

• Best Practices for Autonomous Vehicle Configuration Management (slides)
  • SPIE 2017 Unmanned Systems Technology
  • Thomas Denewiler and Mark Tjersland
• Comparison of Visual Odometry Navigation Algorithms for Ground Robotic Applications
  • Lee Lemay, Thomas Denewiler, Justin Gorgen, Bo Fitzsimmons and Demoz Gebre-Egziabher
• The Stingray AUV: A small and cost-effective solution for ecological monitoring
  • Barngrover, C., Kastner, R., Denewiler, T., and G. Mills
• Joint Collaborative Technology Experiment
  • Wills, M., Ciccimaro, D., Yee, S., Denewiler, T., Stroumtsos, N., Messamore, J., Brown, R., Skibba, B., Clapp, D., Wit, J., Shirts, R.J., Dion, G.N., and G.S. Anselmo
• Development of a UGV-mounted Automated Refueling System for VTOL UAVs
  • Mullens, K., Burmeister, A., Wills, M., Nelson, T., and T. Denewiler
• Unmanned Ground Vehicles for Integrated Force Protection
  • Carroll, D., Mikell, K., and T. Denewiler
• Automated Launch, Recovery, and Refueling for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Mullens, K., Burmeister, A., Wills, M., Stroumtsos, N., Denewiler, T., Thomas, K., and S. Stancliff
• An Automated UAV Mission System
  • Mullens, K.D., Pacis, E.B., Stancliff, S.B., Burmeister, A.B., Denewiler, T.A., Bruch, M.H., and H.R. Everett