Seminar
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 [...]
Semi-Autonomous Control of Passenger Vehicles for Active Hazard Avoidance
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Karl Iagnemma is a principal research scientist in the Mechanical Engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of the Robotic Mobility Group. He holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. He [...]
Under the Hood of XV-11
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Vladimir Ermakov has a diverse industry background, having worked on projects ranging from web-based application design for Netscape and WebMetrics, to working on various embedded systems such as an in-flight entertainment system and an electronic trainer for boxing at X-Digital Systems. For the last five years Vladimir was the principal engineer [...]
Robots and geometry: robot geodesics, pushing string, and grasping cloth
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Devin Balkcom is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Balkcom's primary research interest is in robotic manipulation, focusing on the manipulation of flexible materials including cloth, paper, and string. Balkcom received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, advised by Matthew T. Mason.Abstract: Theory and [...]