Jonathan Gammell
I lead the Estimation, Search, and Planning (ESP) research group as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and a Faculty Member of the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute at Queen's University. Our research here is focused on understanding fundamental problems in robotics, especially those that involve complex motion estimation and path planning. This is universal work that is applicable to a wide-variety of real-world problems. We also believe it will provide an exciting new direction for the future of robotics. For more information, please see our research page as well as the pages of our individual members.
I am an experienced field roboticist with over ten years of experience deploying autonomous robotic systems to challenging environments. This work has taken me across the globe, including to Mauna Kea, Hawai`i, the Canadian Space Agency’s Mars Emulation Terrain, Le Mans, France, the Olympic Park in London, UK, and the Mojave Desert in California. You can see a map of all my fieldwork, if you are interested in more details.
In addition to my primary role at Queen's, I am also an Adjunct Fellow at the Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI), a developer for the Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL), and a collaborator with NASA JPL. I have previously been a departmental lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, a stipendiary lecturer at St. Peter's College, Oxford, and a postdoctoral research associate in the Mobile Robotics Group (MRG) at ORI. I have also worked with technology-based startups as a lab scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab (Toronto & Oxford) and collaborated on a number of interdisciplinary projects, including with orthopedic surgeons, ecologists, biologists, architects, and sculptors.
Publications
Journal Papers
- Publication
- Journal
- The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
- Volume
- 43
- Number
- 10
- Pages
- 1506–1532
- Date
- Publication
- Journal
- The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
- Volume
- 43
- Number
- 8
- Pages
- 1250–1278
- Date
- Title
- Osprey: Multi-session autonomous aerial mapping with LiDAR-based SLAM and next best view planning
- Publication
- Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR)
- Volume
- 1
- Pages
- 113–130
- Date
- Publication
- Journal
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
- Volume
- 8
- Number
- 10
- Pages
- 6707–6714
- Date
- Notes
- Presented at ICRA 2024
- Publication
- Journal
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
- Volume
- 7
- Number
- 4
- Pages
- 11370–11377
- Date
- Notes
- Presented at IROS 2022
- Publication
- Journal
- The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
- Volume
- 41
- Number
- 4
- Pages
- 390–417
- Date
- Publication
- Journal
- Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine
- Volume
- 236
- Number
- 3
- Pages
- 349–355
- Date
- Publication
- Journal
- Scientific Reports
- Volume
- 12
- Number
- 1
- Pages
- 2068
- Date
- Publication
- Journal
- Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems
- Volume
- 4
- Number
- 1
- Pages
- 295–318
- Date
- Notes
- Invited
- Publication
- Journal
- The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
- Volume
- 39
- Number
- 5
- Pages
- 543–567
- Date
- Publication
- Journal
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
- Volume
- 4
- Number
- 2
- Pages
- 800–807
- Date
- Notes
- Presented at ICRA 2019
- Publication
- Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
- Volume
- 34
- Number
- 4
- Pages
- 966–984
- Date
- Publication
- Journal
- Advances in Space Research, Special Issue on “Lunar Exploration”
- Volume
- 50
- Number
- 12
- Pages
- 1666–1686
- Date
- Publication
- Journal
- Microelectronic Engineering
- Volume
- 83
- Number
- 4
- Pages
- 1376–1381
- Date
Conference Papers
Full-Paper-Refereed
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR)
- Series
- Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (SPAR)
- Volume
- 27
- Pages
- 555–571
- Location
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Pages
- 4219–4226
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Pages
- 5855–5862
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Pages
- 7034–7041
- Date
- Notes
- Best Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics Paper Award Finalist
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS)
- Series
- EPiC Series in Health Sciences
- Volume
- 4
- Pages
- 301–305
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Pages
- 130–136
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Pages
- 3191–3198
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Pages
- 3949–3956
- Location
- Madrid, Spain
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Pages
- 1–8
- Location
- Brisbane, Australia
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Pages
- 4207–4214
- Location
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Pages
- 3067–3074
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Pages
- 2997–3004
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV)
- Pages
- 29–36
- Location
- Regina, SK, Canada
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV)
- Pages
- 144–150
- Location
- Regina, SK, Canada
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference
- Pages
- 1–10
- Location
- Big Sky, MT, USA
- Date
Abstract-Refereed
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Future of Construction: Robot Perception, Mapping, Navigation, Control in Unstructured and Cluttered Environments, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluating Motion Planning Performance (EMPP), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Location
- Kyoto, Japan
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems for Emergency Response, Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things (CPS-IoT) Week
- Pages
- 19–23
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Orthopedic Research Society (ORS) Annual Meeting
- Location
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the British Orthopaedic Research Society (BORS) Annual Meeting
- Date
- Notes
- Podium presentation
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Orthopedic Research Society (ORS) Annual Meeting
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Virtual European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) Congress (VEC)
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Long-Term Human Motion Prediction (LHMP) Workshop, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Location
- Montréal, QC, Canada
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Joint Industry and Robotics Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) Symposium (JIRCS)
- Location
- Bristol, UK
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Joint Industry and Robotics Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) Symposium (JIRCS)
- Location
- Oxford, UK
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Information-Based Grasp and Manipulation Planning Workshop, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR)
- Series
- Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR)
- Volume
- 114
- Pages
- 487–504
- Location
- Singapore
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Planetary Rovers Workshop, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Location
- Karlsruhe, Germany
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS)
- Location
- Turin, Italy
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS)
- Location
- Turin, Italy
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)
- Location
- The Woodlands, TX, USA
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)
- Location
- The Woodlands, TX, USA
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)
- Location
- The Woodlands, TX, USA
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC-DPS)
- Volume
- 6
- Location
- Nantes, France
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- International Conference on Micro and Nano-Engineering
- Pages
- 734–735
- Date
- Publication
- Conference
- Proceedings of the International Commercialization of Micro-Nano Systems (COMS) Conference
- Pages
- 493–499
- Date
Theses
- Publication
- Type
- D.Phil. Thesis
- School
- University of Oxford
- Date
- Publication
- Type
- D.Phil. Thesis
- School
- University of Oxford
- Date
- Publication
- Type
- D.Phil. Thesis
- School
- University of Oxford
- Date
- Publication
- Type
- Ph.D. Thesis
- School
- University of Toronto
- Date
- Notes
- 2017 CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award
- Publication
- Type
- Master’s Thesis
- School
- University of Toronto
- Date
Technical Reports
- Publication
- Type
- Technical Report
- Report Number
- TR-2021-MPS001
- Organization
- Estimation, Search, and Planning (ESP) Research Group, University of Oxford
- Date
- Publication
- Type
- Technical Report
- Report Number
- TR-2014-JDG004
- Organization
- Autonomous Space Robotics Lab (ASRL), University of Toronto
- Date
- Publication
- Type
- Technical Report
- Report Number
- TR-2014-JDG002
- Organization
- Autonomous Space Robotics Lab (ASRL), University of Toronto
- Date