FIGURE 1 I work on algorithms for 3D mapping with lidar.

I am an engineer, roboticist, and programmer.

2016– present: Ouster, Inc. Software Engineer, Mapping

I am interested in robot perception and localization, computer vision, and machine learning.

In my spare time, I like to contribute to Wikipedia, make 3D models, work on personal programming projects, do programming contests, take photos, and do web design.

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1 Education

At CMU, my advisor was George Kantor. I worked on SLAM using a combination of cameras and a LIDAR, for an autonomous off-road vehicle.

My thesis is called Vision-Enhanced Lidar Odometry and Mapping. It is about combining several different SLAM algorithms, each with different strengths and weaknesses, so that a robot can function robustly in many different environments.

2 Contact

My email address is the same as my full name except with an ‘@’ in between my first and middle names and a dot between my middle and last name.

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3 Publications

3.1 Journal papers

Daniel Lu. (2015) Planar lower envelope of monotone polygonal chains. Information Processing Letters, 115(12), 962-964. doi:10.1016/j.ipl.2015.07.004, arXiv:1412.6619

Daniel Lu . (2015) Generalization of elementary cellular automata to a higher dimension family including the BML traffic model. arXiv:1501.00733

. (2015) Generalization of elementary cellular automata to a higher dimension family including the BML traffic model. arXiv:1501.00733 Paul Liu and Daniel Lu. (2014) A fast 25/6-approximation for the minimum unit disk cover problem. arXiv:1406.3838

3.3 Technical reports

Daniel Lu . (2016) Vision-Enhanced Lidar Odometry and Mapping. Masters Thesis. pdf link

. (2016) Vision-Enhanced Lidar Odometry and Mapping. Masters Thesis. pdf link Daniel Lu . (2015) Offline estimation of vehicular inertial parameters using onboard LIDAR. webpage, pdf link

. (2015) Offline estimation of vehicular inertial parameters using onboard LIDAR. webpage, pdf link Daniel Lu, Anson Liang, Richard Lee. (2012) Quaffle: Design of an Autonomous Quadrotor. webpage, pdf link