Jeffrey Kane Johnson

Personal web site

About

I work to develop safety-verifiable, vision-based methods for autonomous robotic collision avoidance. In general my research interests revolve around perception-based motion planning and control for use in multi-agent systems.

Projects & Contributions

Education

PhD in Computer Science, 2012—2017
School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
IU Computer Vision Lab
MSc in Computer Science, 2009—2012
School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
BSc in Computer Science, 1999—2003
Trine University, Angola, Indiana

Professional

Mapless AI, Inc., March. 2020—Current
Co-founder
- Remote vehicle operation with autonomous active safety.
Maeve Automation, Feb. 2019
Research Project
- Advanced, autonomy-based vehicle driver assistance systems
Uber ATG, Jan. 2018—Feb. 2019
Senior Autonomy Engineer
- Motion planning for urban automated vehicles
Apple, Inc., Jan. 2016—May 2017
Engineer
- Experimental algorithm and software development for autonomous systems
Robert Bosch, LLC, Jan. 2014—Nov. 2015
Research Engineer
- Lead development of motion planning/decision making for automated driving
Robert Bosch, LLC, May 2013—Aug. 2013
Intern
- Collision detection methods for optimization-based vehicle motion planning
TRACLabs, June 2012—Aug. 2012
Intern
- Software toolkits for coordinated dual-arm manipulation
Indiana University, Sept. 2006—Sept. 2009
Web Developer, School of Journalism
- Development of school web site and internal web-based applications
Software Developer, March 2004—Sept. 2006
Independent
- Software development for small to mid-sized clients

Affiliations

American Control Conference - ACC2020
Session Chair
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium - IV2020
Associate Editor
Workshop on Ensuring and Validating Safety for Automated Vehicles - IV2020
Co-proposer
UL 4600 Standard for Safety for the Evaluation of Autonomous Vehicle and Other Products
Stakeholder
IEEE ITSS Technical Committee on Self Driving Automobiles
Member
- Co-chair Cooperative Interacting Vehicle Workshop in IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium - IV2019

Publications

Re: Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Framework for Automated Driving System Safety
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Proposed Rule: Framework for Automated Driving System Safety
Docket No. NHTSA-2020-0106
Jeffrey Kane Johnson, Philipp Robbel
(Comment ID: NHTSA-2020-0106-0016)
The Colliding Reciprocal Dance Problem: A Mitigation Strategy with Application to Automotive Active Safety Systems
American Control Conference (ACC) 2020
Jeffrey Kane Johnson
(pdf) (bib) (slides) (presentation)
Safe Motion Planning under Partial Observability with an Optimal Deterministic Planner
American Control Conference (ACC) 2020
Jeffrey Kane Johnson
(pdf) (bib) (slides) (presentation)
Visual Servoing for Mobile Ground Navigation
IEEE Connected and Automated Vehicles Symposium (CAVS) 2018
Jeffrey Kane Johnson
(pdf) (poster) (bib)
On the Relationship Between Dynamics and Complexity in Multi-agent Collision Avoidance
Autonomous Robots (AURO)
Jeffrey Kane Johnson
(pre-print pdf) (published version) (bib)
Guest talk: Vision-based Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles
Intelligent & Interactive Systems Talk Series
Jeffrey Kane Johnson
(Video) (Slides)
Image Space Potential Fields: Constant Size Environment Representation for Vision-based Subsumption Control Architectures
Maeve Automation Technical Report 1
Jeffrey Kane Johnson
(pdf) (bib)
Encroachment Detection with Monocular Vision for Small, Low-cost, Compute-constrained Platforms
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017
Abstract Only
Jeffrey Kane Johnson
(pdf) (poster) (bibtex)
Selective Determinism for Autonomous Navigation in Multi-agent Systems
Ph.D. Dissertation
Jeffrey Kane Johnson
(pdf) (bibtex) (slides)
Constant Space Complexity Environment Representation for Vision-based Navigation
IROS 2017 9th Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles
Jeffrey Kane Johnson
(pdf) (poster) (slides) (bibtex)
A Novel Relationship Between Dynamics and Complexity in Multi-agent Collision Avoidance
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2016
Jeffrey Kane Johnson
(pdf) (slides) (poster) (bibtex)
Identifying Support Surfaces of Climbable Structures from 3D Point Clouds
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2014
Anna Eilering, Victor Yap, Jeff Johnson, Kris Hauser
(pdf) (bibtex)
Optimal Longitudinal Control Planning with Moving Obstacles
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2013
Jeff Johnson, Kris Hauser
(pdf) (web) (slides) (bibtex)
Optimal Longitudinal Control Planning with Moving Obstacles
ICRA 2013 Workshop: Vehicle Autonomy in Urban Transportation Systems
Jeff Johnson, Kris Hauser
(pdf) (bibtex)
Minimizing Driver Interference Under a Probabilistic Safety Constraint in Emergency Collision Avoidance Systems
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC) 2012
Jeff Johnson, Yajia Zhang, Kris Hauser
(pdf) (slides) (bibtex)
Optimal Acceleration-Bounded Trajectory Planning in Dynamic Environments Along a Specified Path
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2012
Jeff Johnson, Kris Hauser
(pdf) (slides) (bibtex)
Semiautonomous Longitudinal Collision Avoidance Using a Probabilistic Decision Threshold
IROS 2011 International workshop on Perception and Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles in Human Environment
Jeff Johnson, Yajia Zhang, Kris Hauser
(pdf) (bibtex)