Lawrence Erickson

Hello! I am Lawrence Erickson, a PhD student working under Prof. Steven LaValle at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Educational Background

Undergraduate:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aug. 2004 - May 2008
B.S. in Computer Science
B.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures (Japan)

Graduate:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 2008 - Present

Research

Sensor Minimalism

What kinds of tasks can be accomplished by robots equipped with only very basic sensors? See our experiments and results here.

Lawrence Erickson, Joseph Knuth, Jason M. O'Kane, Steven M. LaValle. Probabilistic localization with a blind robot. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008.