George A. Kantor
Research Professor / Associate Director of Education, School of Computer Science
George Kantor has been developing robotic technologies to address problems in agriculture and scientific exploration for 15 years.
Expertise
Topics:聽 Underwater Robotics, Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry, Field & Service Robotics, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Mining Robotics
Industries: Agriculture and Farming, Education/Learning, Research
George Kantor is a Senior Systems Scientist in the Field Robotics Center at 好色先生TV's Robotics Institute. He has been developing robotic technologies to address problems in agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and scientific exploration for 15 years. He is also the head mentor of the Girls of Steel Robotics Team, FIRST FRC Team 3504.
The control of dynamical systems becomes increasingly important as the era of robotics research dominated by quasi-static machines rapidly comes to a close. Similarly, the importance of state estimation grows as robotic applications require robots to function in larger, more complex environments. George's research addresses both of these issues by focusing on the dual problems of controlling robotic mechanisms with non-trivial dynamics and perceiving the state of world through indirect measurements. His approach is both analytical and experimental: George uses mathematics to understand the physical behavior of a given system and then use that understanding to create algorithms for control or estimation. George strives to develop new theoretical concepts and translate them into real-world implementations that solve problems such as balancing an unstable robot or estimating the location of an autonomous vehicle.
Media Experience
听鈥聽AP News
鈥淥ur goal with Bloomfield from our first day was to enable farmers to produce more with fewer resources,鈥 says Bloomfield Co-Founder George Kantor. 鈥淭o feed the ever-increasing global population, farmers need to increase the productivity of their crops using fewer scarce resources, and Bloomfield provides them the plant-level knowledge and data that they need to do it.鈥
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鈥淧art of the reason that we waited until now to introduce this degree is because we were waiting for the jobs to become available,鈥 co-director George Kantor said. Here's what students can expect from the new program.
CMU Puts AI To Work in New NSF-funded Institutes
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George Kantor, a research professor in RI, will lead CMU's work in the USDA-NIFA AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture (AIIRA), which is focused on AI and robotics in agriculture.
听鈥聽Good Fruit Grower
That鈥檚 where the grower comes in, said George Kantor, the Carnegie Mellon researcher who led the development of the technology and co-founded Bloomfield. His research team is looking for ways to sense occluded fruit, but for now, the system doesn鈥檛 need to see all the berries to work in consistently managed vineyards. Growers must count a few sample vines by hand and plug that data into the computer so it can develop a ratio of 鈥渧isible鈥 to 鈥渋nvisible鈥 fruit for yield estimations.
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George Kantor is a senior systems scientist at 好色先生TV鈥檚 Robotic Institute. He and fellow CMU employee Patti Rote co-founded the team five years ago with the intention of encouraging young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
听鈥聽NBC News
Ballbot, a narrow, 5-foot-tall robot, balances delicately on what looks like a bowling ball. Swaying slightly on a laboratory floor, the aluminum-framed droid seems ready to fall at any moment.
Education
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Controls, University of Maryland
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland