John J. Leonard

Andrew A. Bennett, John J. Leonard; A behavior-based approach to adaptive feature detection and following with autonomous underwater vehicles, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 25, pp. 213 - 226, April 2000.

Hans Jacob S. Feder, John J. Leonard, Christopher M. Smith; Incorporating environmental measurements in navigation, Proceedings of 1998 Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, pp. 115 - 122, June 1998.

Christopher M. Smith, John J. Leonard, Hans Jacob S. Feder; Making difficult decisions autonomously: The impact of integrated mapping and navigation, Proceedings of 1998 Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, pp. 123 - 132, June 1998.

H. J. S. Feder, J. J. Leonard, C. M. Smith; Adaptive sensing for terrain aided navigation, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'98 Conference, pp. 336 - 341, September 1998.

Bradley A. Moran, John J. Leonard, Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis; Curved shape reconstruction using multiple hypothesis tracking, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 22, pp. 625 - 638, October 1997.

Christopher M. Smith, John J. Leonard, Andrew A. Bennett, Christopher Shaw; Feature-based concurrent mapping and localization for AUVs, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'97 Conference, pp. 896 - 901, September 1997.

J. H. Kim, B. A. Moran, J. J. Leonard, J. G. Bellingham, S. T. Tuohy; Experiments in remote monitoring and control of autonomous underwater vehicles, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'96 Conference, pp. 411 - 416, September 1996.

Andrew A. Bennett, John J. Leonard; Autonomous mapping with an AUV: An approach for ground truthing of remote sensing data, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'96 Conference, pp. 1099 - 1104, September 1996.

D. K. Atwood, J. J. Leonard, J. G. Bellingham, B. A. Moran; An acoustic navigation system for multi-vehicle operations, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 9, pp. 202 - 208, September 1995.

Andrew A. Bennett, John J. Leonard, James G. Bellingham; Bottom following for survey-class autonomous underwater vehicles, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 9, pp. 327 - 336, September 1995.

J. J. Leonard, S. T. Tuohy, J. G. Bellingham, B. A. Moran, J. H. Kim, H. Schmidt, N. M. Patrikalakis, C. Chryssostomidis; Virtual environments for AUV development and ocean exploration, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 9, pp. 436 - 443, September 1995.

J. G. Bellingham, C. A. Goudey, T. R. Consi, J. W. Bales, D. K. Atwood, J. J. Leonard, C. Chryssostomidis; A second generation survey AUV, Proceedings of 1994 Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, pp. 148 - 155, July 1994.

James G. Bellingham, Max Deffenbaugh, John J. Leonard, Josko Catipovic, Henrik Schmidt; Arctic under-ice survey operations, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 8, pp. 50 - 59, September 1993.

S. T. Tuohy, N. M. Patrikalakis, J. J. Leonard, J. G. Bellingham, C. Chryssostomidis; AUV navigation using geophysical maps with uncertainty, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 8, pp. 265 - 276, September 1993.

Bradley A. Moran, John J. Leonard, Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis; Geometric shape from sonar ranging, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 8, pp. 370 - 383, September 1993.


John J. Leonard (S'87-M'87) received the B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering and science from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1987 and the Ph.D. degree in engineering science from the University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., in 1994.

He is an Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge. His research addresses the problems of navigation and mapping for autonomous underwater vehicles. From 1991 to 1996, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Engineer in the Underwater Vehicles Laboratory of the MIT Sea Grant College Program.

Dr. Leonard is a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation and Oceanic Engineering Societies and the Acoustical Society of America.