Dave Lavery

Dave's Picture
In the NASA KC-135 "Vomit Comet"
Program Executive for Solar System Exploration
Mars Exploration Program / Mail Code SM
Office of Space Science
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Washington, DC 20546

Phone: 202-358-4684
Fax: 202-358-2697
E-mail: dave.lavery@hq.nasa.gov

Home pages for current areas of involvement:


Mars Exploration Rover-2003 mission	Mars Express mission	Mars Technology Program

NASA Science Missions Directorate	Mars Exploration Program	NASA participation in the FIRST robotics competition

Dave's ever-growing list of cool pages	Metalworking Index	Telerobotics Program

Selected Publications:

Lavery D, "Program Architecture For The Robotic Exploration Of Mars," Society of Automotive Engineers International Conference on Environmental Systems, Orlando, FL, Jul 9-12, 2001.
Weisbin C, Blitch J, Lavery D, Krotkov E, Shoemaker C, Matthies L, Rodriguez G "Miniature Robots for Space and Military Missions," IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE Press, p 9-18, Vol 6. No. 3, September 1999.
Weisbin C, Blitch J, Lavery D, Krotkov E, Shoemaker C, Matthies L, Rodriguez G "Miniature Robots for Space and Military Missions," American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Defense & Civil Space Programs Conference, Huntsville AL, October 28-30, 1998.
Lavery D, Marzwell N, Holliday M, Osborn J, "Space Technology in Support of Cooperative US-Ukraine Efforts to Mitigate the Damage at the Chornobyl Unit 4 Nuclear Power Plant," United Nations Symposium on Economic Benefits of Using Space Technology/Applications in Developing Countries, Graz, Austria, September 7-10, 1998.
Lavery D, "Flight Experiments, Demonstrations and Operations Of Space Telerobotics Systems," American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Automation and Robotics Technical Forum, Boston, MA, July 16-17 1998.
Lavery D, Weisbin C, "Telerobotic Exploration of the Solar System," American Nuclear Society International Conference on Environmental Systems, Boston, MA, July 15-16, 1998.
Weisbin C, Lavery D, Rodriguez G, "The Next Decade of Space Robotics," International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Applications in Space, Tokyo, Japan, June, 1997.
Lavery D, Weisbin C, and Rodriguez G, "Space Robotics Missions and Technology Requirements into the Next Century," American Nuclear Society Seventh Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, Augusta, GA, April 27-May 1, 1997
Weisbin C, Lavery D and Rodriguez G, "Robots In Space into the 21st Century" Autonomous Robots, MCB University Press, p169-181, Vol 24, No. 2, 1997.
Weisbin C, Lavery D and Rodriguez G, "Robots In Space: U.S. Missions and Technology Requirements" Autonomous Robots, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, p159-173, Vol 4, No. 2, 1997.
Lavery D, The Future of Telerobotics, Roboitcs World, p48, June 1996.
Weisbin C and Lavery D, "NASA Rover and Telerobotics Program", IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, pp14-21, December 1994.
Lavery D, "Perspectives on Future Space Robotics", Aerospace America, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, pp32-37, May 1994.
Lavery D, "Terrestrial Applications of NASA Space Telerobotics Technologies", Conference on Intelligent Robotics in Field, Factory, Service and Space (CIRFFSS '94), Houston, Texas, March 21-22, 1994.
Lavery D, "Perspectives on Future Space Telerobotics Technology", International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Tokyo, Japan, November 1-2 1993.
Harris L, Lavery D and Montemerlo M, "NASA Research to Reduce the Cost of Operations" (IAF-93-U.2.545), 44th Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, Graz, Austria, October 16-22 1993.
Lavery D, Giffin G, "NASA Perspectives on Robotic Architectures and Space Applications" (AIAA-93-4304), AIAA Space Programs and Technologies Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Huntsville, Alabama, September 21-23 1993.
Lavery D, Bedard R, "NASA Planetary Rover Technology Development" (IAF-91-037), 42nd Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, Montreal, Canada, October 5-11 1991.
Bedard R, Lavery D, "Navigation of Military and Space Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Unstructured Environments", 3rd Conference on Military Robotics Applications, Medicine Hat, Canada, September 9-12 1991.
Lavery D, Bedard R, "NASA Planetary Rover Program", International Space Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation Symposium (iSAIRAS), Kobe, Japan, November 1990.
Lavery D, Bedard R, "Development of Planetary Rover Component Technologies", International Astronautical Federation Conference, September 12-14, 1990 Dresden, West Germany.
Lavery D, Brooks B, "MacDoctor: Configuration Diagnosis Expert System", CLIPS Users Conference, Houston, Texas, August 14-15 1990.
Bedard R, Lavery D, "NASA Planetary Rover Technology Development", Space Operations, Applications and Research (SOAR) Symposium, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 26-28 1990.
Lavery D, Bedard R, "NASA Automation and Robotics Technology Program," 1990 International Robots and Vision Automation Conference, Detroit Michigan, June 5-7 1990.
Lavery D, Bedard R, "Planetary Rovers: Mission Needs and Technology Plans," AIAA/JPL 2nd International Conference on Solar System Exploration, Pasadena, California, August 22-24 1989.
Lavery D, editor, 1989 CA Graphics Week User Group Proceedings, San Diego, California, July 21-23 1989.
Lavery D, "Micro-Computer Animation of Host-Based Graphics," 1989 CA Graphics Week User Group Proceedings, San Diego, California, January 26-27 1989.
Lavery D, "The Macintosh II and CA/TELLAGRAF," 1988 CA Graphics Week User Group Proceedings, Nashville, Tennessee, February 29-March 1 1988.
Lavery D, "Implementing a VAX/VMS-based Production Graphics Facility," National Computer Graphics Association Technical Proceedings, vol 3, pp 188-195, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, March 23-27 1987.
Lavery D, Daniels L, Fenimore R, "Preprocessing Tell-A-Graf Images with MacDraw," Proceedings of the 12th Annual ISSCO Users Group Meeting, Los Angeles California, February 23-24 1987.
Lavery D, "Principles of Aesthetics in Computer Graphics," National Computer Graphics Association Technical Proceedings, vol 3, pp 210-218, Anaheim, California, May 1986.
Lavery D, Sonnek C, "An Integrated Solution for End-User Graphics," National Computer Graphics Association Technical Proceedings, vol 3, pp 229-236, Anaheim, California, May 1986.
Lavery D, "Scientific Program Office Computer Graphics," Federal Office Systems-Software Conference, Washington, DC, April 5-7 1985.
Wiskerchen M, Lavery D, "Advanced Communications Networks and Intelligent Robots," National Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Conference Proceedings, Washington, DC, November 30-December 2 1983.
Lavery D, "A Methodology for Database Management System Evaluation and Selection," Electronic Information Services Conference, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, October 12-13 1983.

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