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Karl Murphy

Co-founder, Vice President and Senior Engineer, Forterra

About

Karl Murphy co-founded Robotic Research, the autonomous-ground-vehicle company now known as Forterra, in 2002 after conducting autonomous-vehicle research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. His published work covers real-time vehicle control, terrain perception using laser range sensing, navigation, path planning, and off-road autonomy for military ground vehicles.

Previous roles

  • Co-founder, Robotic Research (now Forterra)
  • Autonomous-ground-vehicle researcher and technical lead, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Principal Investigator, Modular Aerostat Communications Relay SBIR, Robotic Research

Notable work

  • Ground Vehicle Control at NIST: from Teleoperation to Autonomy
  • Reconnaissance and Autonomy for Small Robots (RASR) team: MAGIC 2010 challenge
  • Modular Aerostat Communications Relay (MACREL)

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