Autonomous Robot Expert Witnesses
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Autonomous robot expert witness candidates typically have experience and knowledge in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, mechatronics, and/or computer vision. A robotics expert specializing in autonomous products may also have a background in artificial intelligence, machine learning, sensor networks, or human robot interaction. An autonomous robot expert witness must have a deep understanding not only of the technology, but also of the industry, competitive landscape, and the developing technologies of the industry’s leading players. Cahn Litigation Services is frequently called upon by law firms to locate an expert witness that can support issues involving autonomous robot matters.
An autonomous robot performs tasks with without external influence. Autonomous robots are useful for spaceflight, factories, household maintenance, waste water treatment, and delivering goods and services. Autonomous robots and autonomous vehicles (self driving car or driverless vehicles) have many technology principles in common. Autonomous weapons systems, a form of autonomous robots, are autonomous military systems that search for and engage targets based on programmed constraints.
An autonomous robot expert witness could provide expertise in intellectual property matters — a patent litigation in federal court or a trade secret dispute. It could be a patent infringement case in the District Court, or a patent case or proceeding in the International Trade Commission (ITC).
Litigation support by an autonomous robot expert witness could include an expert report, forensic engineering, expert opinion, and expert testimony at a trial. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a technical expert with prior expert witness experience. It is essential that an expert witness possess the ability to provide expert testimony in such a manner that a jury and judge can understand the factual evidence.
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Autonomous Robot Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Autonomous Robot experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Autonomous Robot landscape.
Expert Witness #216323
This expert holds a PhD in Robotics and Automation, is a Professional Engineer, and brings to the table many years of experience in automation systems with specific expertise in instrumentation, control, and software related to electro-mechanical systems. This expert has successfully applied these core strengths in numerous industries including: manufacturing; medical and biomedical; nanotechnology and semiconductor. A former Chief Scientist of a robotics research group and technical architect of multi-million dollar projects with Fortune 500 companies and Federal agencies, this expert has written five copyrighted software systems. This expert has worked extensively with:
- factory automation and factory automation software- process control- computer controlled machines- robotics software and manufacturing software- software source code languages for programming machines- designing machines and motion control systems- programmable logic controllers and their softwareThis expert has courtroom experience with analyzing software in theft of trade secrets and patent cases. This expert accepts a small number of litigation support engagements to complement regular work as a professional engineer designing automation and machine control systems.
Start Autonomous Robot Expert SearchExpert Witness #236452
This expert received a diploma in electrical and computer engineering, an M.S.E.E. in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering. This expert is the recipient of numerous academic awards. This expert has authored or coauthored more than 160 journal and conference papers. This expert's research interests include sensors for transportation applications, computer vision, and control systems. This expert's transportation research has included projects involving vision-based sensing and classification. This expert developed a vehicle following system using imaging sensors and then worked with a variety of sensors including LiDAR to develop pedestrian detection schemes, lane following systems, obstacle avoidance, and connected vehicles, etc. This work has led to a relationship with an automobile manufacturer where this expert handles many IPRs, ex-parte reviews, and two district court cases related to radar, cameras, and LiDAR sensors. It has also led to negotiations for a large contract with DHS for a ground robot that will monitor the southern border. The idea is to operate for a few hours on rough terrain and collect data. This expert has strong experience with the design and building of intelligent vehicle systems, and has been teaching relevant classes that involve LiDAR, for decades.
Start Autonomous Robot Expert SearchExpert Witness #260937
This expert is a Chair of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering. This expert was a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science. This expert has published more than 480 papers in the leading conferences and journals in computer graphics, robotics, computational geometry, databases, multimedia, high performance computing and symbolic computation, and received 16 best paper and time of test awards. This expert has also served as a program committee member or program chair of more than 120 leading conferences in these areas. Moreover, this expert has given more than 110 invited or keynote talks at conferences and distinguished lectures at other institutions. This expert has served as a member of the editorial board or guest editor of leading journals in computer graphics, robotics, geometry processing and scientific computing. This expert has won many awards and is a Fellow of ACM, AAAS, AAAI, and IEEE. This expert is a member of SIGGRAPH Academy, and Pioneer of Solid Modeling Association.
This expert has supervised 40 Ph.D. students. This expert's research group has developed many well-known software packages for collision detection, triangulation, GPU-based algorithms, multi-agent simulation, texture compression, solid modeling, solving algebraic systems, etc. These packages have been downloaded by more than 200,000 users worldwide and licensed to more than 60 industrial organizations. This expert's group has actively collaborated with many industrial organizations.
This expert was a co-founder of a developer of physics-based audio simulation technologies.
This expert has filed 12 patents (and granted 9) based on research. This expert has served as an expert witness on many patent infringement and class action lawsuits. This expert has written many expert reports related to patent invalidity and patent infringement and has been deposed a few times.
Start Autonomous Robot Expert SearchExpert Witness #230902
This expert has many years of experience in hardware and software engineering from embedded systems in the telecommunications and robotics fields to very large-scale enterprise systems. This expert has developed embedded systems for media distribution, high speed encryption and robots; enterprise systems; AI technologies; computer language compilers and interpreters; operating systems; network protocols and knowledge discovery tools; and web and non-web Internet based systems. This expert has extensive experience with more than 45 computer languages and relational, object and post-relational database systems. This expert has developed custom loaders for object code and understands the general requirements of a bifurcated OS or API where executable code for certain concerns are stored in separate and interchangeable code and data elements. This expert has also developed table-based solutions for localizing executables.
Selected Professional Experience
Senior Systems Engineer – Lead engineer of a team responsible for porting MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows to Paradyne PCs. Developed drivers and BIOS. Senior engineer on team responsible for porting and customizing the first implementation of Microsoft Xenix, which later became SCO Unix. Consulted to team responsible for localizing Paradyne products for various foreign language markets.
Department manager and lead engineer of Embedded Systems for a Robotics Group. Under this expert’s direction and following this expert’s design, the group developed a custom real-time operating system with extensions for executing a software-based replacement for Programmable Logic Controllers using a custom logic language compiler of this expert’s design, a distributed multi-node inter-process communication subsystem and other OS extensions.
This expert has years of experience providing expert reports, depositions and testimony for patent litigation, forensics and software contract disputes in telecommunications, computer and network technologies, media distribution and media handling devices and cellular devices and networks including both hardware and software.
This expert’s expert analysis and conclusions were instrumental in achieving successful results in several cases, including a petition before the PTAB for re-examination of a patent’s validity, wherein this expert’s expert written and oral opinions led to a reversal of the Board’s previous invalidity decision, resulting in the patent’s validity being sustained, as well as a similar reversal of a prior decision on a second patent the following day, using the same arguments.
Start Autonomous Robot Expert SearchExpert Witness #238561
This expert is a Professional Engineer with Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, and Civil Engineering degrees and certificates. This expert has a good deal of ladder logic experience within the context of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Computer Numerical Controls (CNC). This expert was engaged in the design, manufacture, installation and startup of robotic pick and place machinery, performing all engineering calculations necessary in the design of these robotic machines and programming the PLCs during the initial installation period. This expert has also dealt with the design and construction of industrial material handling systems, such as conveyors, piping systems, crane, monorails, robotics, PLCs, hydraulics, pneumatics and electrical controls. This expert had sole responsibility for designing, installing, programming and startup of CNC for manufacturing machine equipment, including selection of components, ladder logic programming, modification of machinery, and machine design. This expert holds two U.S. Patents and is working on two others. This expert has been engaged as an expert witness in a number of cases.
Start Autonomous Robot Expert SearchExpert Witness #216413
This robotic mapping expert holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and is a Professor Emeritus in industrial and systems engineering at a public research university. This expert received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from a prestigious technical university and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from a well-regarded research university.
This expert has been active in industrial robotics for over 55 years, including developing flexible assembly machines at a research laboratory and designing and deploying robotic devices for maintenance of nuclear power facilities at a major electric company. This expert has served as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at well-regarded research universities, where this expert's research focused on industrial robotics for over 30 years. This expert has authored over 200 articles in this subject area.
This expert designed and built an obstacle-detecting floor-sweeping robot a number of years before a commercially known robotic vacuum was introduced. The following period, this expert designed and built a vacuum-cleaning version with autonomous navigation, obstacle detection, and the ability to sense and use a convenience outlet for battery charging. This expert also designed a small domestic robot that localizes itself and maps its environment using optical parallax sensors, which was used as an example in a graduate robotics class. Around the same time, this expert designed and built a field-worthy robot that self-navigates and cuts grass. The machine is featured in this expert's textbook on field robotics. Unlike commercial mowers, it employs a raster pattern rather than random motions, allowing it to cover an area substantially faster. This expert later updated its control system to use differential GPS for greater path accuracy.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Autonomous Robot Expert SearchExpert Witness #237265
This robotic mapping expert holds a PhD and is an academic professor in an electrical and computer engineering department at a well-regarded technical university, where this expert researches and teaches navigation, communications, and computer system design. This expert supervises a university research center focused on integrated radio navigation and is developing a public safety integration center focused on communications, navigation, and information technologies for public safety applications. This expert's research focuses on the development, testing, and evaluation of GPS and GPS-like navigation systems and projects for civilian and military applications. Before joining academia, this expert spent over 10 years at a major technology and defense company developing embedded computers for guidance, communications, and data processing systems in spaceborne and terrestrial applications.
This expert's PhD dissertation addressed computer architectures for real-time decision making, and the work was part of a research group focused on autonomous mobile robots. This expert was one of the founders of a robotics engineering department at a well-regarded technical university and helped develop requirements for adding graduate degrees to the program. This expert taught early graduate and undergraduate robotics courses focused on foundations of robotics, mobile robot navigation, and planning. This expert's background is in navigation and communications, including the use of sensor data to map unknown and dynamic workspaces and path-planning techniques for achieving goals within those workspaces. The robotics coursework has included use of the Robot Operating System to create distributed systems in which low-level tasks are performed on mobile robots while higher-level tasks are performed on remote computers.
This expert has been involved with projects involving mobile robots, including drones for firefighting and demining applications, autonomous watercraft for sampling and return-to-origin tasks, underwater mobile robots for environmental applications, autonomous sailboats using ROS2, wheeled robots, and bipedal and quadrupedal robots. This expert has also worked on projects requiring maneuvering in office environments, including a modular wheeled platform designed to carry different robotic arms and manipulators.
This expert has considerable litigation experience, including work on invalidity and non-infringement issues dozens of times. This expert has testified in jury trials over 10 times, has been deposed many dozens of times, and has been involved in many IPR and PTAB proceedings, including related depositions. This expert has also provided deposition and courtroom testimony in matters involving location-aware systems combining maps and GPS.
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