David Miller

Email: dpmiller@ou.edu

Education
Ph.D., Computer Science (1985)
Yale University
B.A., Astronomy (1981)
Wesleyan University

Research Focus

• Dr. Miller's research concentrates in two main areas: robotics technology (particularly exploration and assistive applications) and robotics as a mechanism for technology education.
• His interests in robotics technology are in automated planning, robotics, and communications with automated systems. For several years, his research has concentrated on creating control architectures that produce planned goal-directed behavior out of collections of real-time reflexive routines, and then applying that work to real-world problems. He led a team of researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to apply these techniques to planetary rovers which initiated a new class of low-cost planetary missions. The first of these missions was launched to Mars in December of 1996.
• Dr. Miller is currently applying these techniques in the development of assistive robotics for the mobility impaired.
• He is the co-founder and technical director of the KISS Institute For Practical Robotics, which promotes technology education through robotics at both the University and K-12 age levels. He is also the technical lead for the Botball program.

Experience and Awards

• Co-Recipient of NASA Board Award for NTR no. 18731: Experimental Semiautonomous Vehicle. April, 2009.
• Co-Recipient of Association of American Publishers, Inc, Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics, for Springer Handbook of Robotics 2008.
• NASA Group Achievement Award to the MARTE Team, May 2006.
• Dave Lavery Technology Award, NASA, 2006 (for his work to promote education in robotic technology through Botball)
• MITRE Best Paper Award (for "Design and Testing of a Low-Cost Robotic Wheelchair", in Autonomous Robots, volume 1, no. 3), 1995
• Appointment to the College of Teachers, International Space University, Strasbourg, France, 1995
• NASA Certificate of Recognition for "Robby" Mars-Rover Prototype Development, 1993
• NASA Exceptional Service Medal, 1993
• NASA Group Achievement Award to the Rocky IV Team, 1993
• NASA Certificate of Recognition for "Tooth" and "Rocky" Micro-Rover Prototype Development, 1992
• Most Innovative Design Award, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Robot Exhibition, 1992
• Lew Allen Award for Excellence, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, 1991
• NASA Group Achievement Award to the Robotic Intelligence Team, 1991