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Roger V. Bostelman (Assoc)

Roger has been a Project Manager in the Intelligent Systems Division at NIST for at least 20 of his 31 years at NIST. He managed the Intelligent Control of Mobility Systems Program and many projects such as:

  • DARPA Learning Applied to Ground Robots (LAGR)
  • NIST Industrial Autonomous Vehicle Project
  • USMC Air Transportable Expeditionary Crane Project
  • US Navy Mobile Offshore Base Project
  • NIST Healthcare Mobility Project
  • and many others.

Roger has designed, built and tested mechanical systems and their interface electronics on robot cranes, arms and vehicles including an automated HMMWV, HLPR Chair, Flying Carpet, and several RoboCranes.

He has over 50 publications in books, journals and conference proceedings and he holds 5 patents with three pending.

Selected Publications

Robotic Patient Lift and Transfer

Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, James S. Albus
This book chapter provides background on wheelchairs, patient lift devices and the combination of mobile patient lift and transfer devices and research. The

Integrating Learning Into a Hierarchical Vehicle Control System

Author(s)
James S. Albus, Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai H. Hong, Tommy Chang, William P. Shackleford, Michael O. Shneier
The National Institute of Standards and Technology s (NIST) Intelligent Systems Division (ISD) is a participant in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Publications

Created August 15, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022