Official Bio

Caroline Chouinard is a member of the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California where she performs software development for planning and scheduling systems. She received a B.B.A in International Business and Finance in 1996 and a B.A. in Computer Science in 2000 both from the University of Texas at Austin. She had the unique opportunity as an undergraduate to research autonomous navigation under the direction of Dr. Ben Kuipers. Her current interests include cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and graphics.

Current Projects

Onboard Autonomous Science investigation System (OASIS)

Responsible for decision-making development of the complete rover life-cycle, including initial plan generation, scheduling, execution, plan optimization and re-planning for events.
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Past Projects

The Coupled Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy (CLARAty)

Responsible for Decision Layer development, integration, and system testing onboard several real and simulated robotic platforms.
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Closed Loop Execution and Recovery (CLEaR)

Responsible for rover simulation and resource management development and creation of a map visualization tool.
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Publications

Intelligent Rover Decision-Making in Response to Exogenous Events

Lead author and presenter at 2005 International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space. CL#05-1744
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An Approach to Autonomous Operations for Remote Mobile Robotic Exploration

Lead author and presenter at 2003 IEEE Aerospace Conference. CL#03-0683
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Continuous Planning and Execution for an Autonomous Rover

Co-author for 2002 Third International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scehduling for Space. CL#02-2112
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CLEaR: CLosed Loop Execution and Recovery - A Framework for Unified Planning and Execution

Co-author for Technology and Science IND News September 2002. Brochure JPL 410-065
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CLEaR: A Framework for Balancing Deliberative and Reactive Control

Co-author for 2002 AIPS Workshop for On-line Planning and Scheduling. CL#01-2668
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