Seminar
Biomimetic Millirobots
Event Location: Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Bio: Ronald Fearing is a professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Univ. of California, Berkeley, which he joined in Jan. 1988. He was Vice-Chair for Undergraduate Matters from 2000-2006. His current research interests are in micro robotics, including flying and crawling micro-robots, parallel nanograsping (gecko [...]
Corridor View: Making Indoor Life Easier with Large Image Database
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Hongwen Henry Kang is currently a PhD student in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon, co-advised by Takeo Kanade and Martial Hebert, he also works closely with Alexei A. Efros. His research interests are in the intersection of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Computer Graphics, with specific interest in [...]
Characterization and Control of a Hopping Robot with Omni-Orientational Mobility for Rough Terrain
Event Location: NSH 1109Bio: Bryan is a Masters student in the Robotics Institute. He is conducting his thesis research at the National Robotics Engineering Center under the guidance of Dr. Dimi Apostolopoulos and plans to graduate in December 2009. His interests include mobile robot system design, design of mechanisms for controllability, and control for unique [...]
Does Touch Perform Fourier Analysis? – A Frequency-Domain Analysis of Haptic Gratings
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Hong Z. Tan is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering with courtesy appointments in mechanical engineering and psychological sciences at Purdue University. Her research of haptic human-machine interfaces focuses on haptic perception and its implications for engineering applications. She received her Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao [...]
Modeling Facial Images with Patches
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Simon Prince was an undergraduate at UCL where he studied Psychology. His doctoral work was at the University of Oxford, in the Department of Experimental Psychology where he investigated human stereo vision using psychophysics. He subsequently worked in the Laboratory of Physiology in Oxford for two years as a post-doc with [...]
Useful signals from motor cortex
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Schwartz received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1984 with a thesis entitled "Activity in the Deep Cerebellar Nuclei During Normal and Perturbed Locomotion". He then went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he worked with Dr. Apostolos Georgopoulos, who was [...]
Intelligent Vehicles Active Safety: A Signal Processing Method for Unobtrusive Detection of Driver Drowsiness
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Dr. Azim Eskandarian is a Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University (GW). He has been the founding director of the Center for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR) since 1996 and the director of the “Transportation Safety and Security” program since 2002, which is one of GW’s competitively [...]