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Dr. Michael Jenkin
CSE & Center for Vision Research
York University, Canada
Mobile robotic systems have found a wide range of applications, from sensing/survey tasks in dangerous environments, to environmental exploration, to carpet cleaning. This lecture considers the three fundamental tasks underlying mobile robots: sensing, planning and locomotion. It considers typical solutions to these problems and reviews some recent robotic systems that have been successfully deployed on Earth and elsewhere.
Dr. Jenkin is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and a member of the Centre for Vision Research at York University, Canada. Working in the fields of visually guided autonomous robots and virtual reality, he has published over 150 research papers including co-authoring Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics with Gregory Dudek and a series of co-edited books on human and machine vision with Laurence Harris.
Michael Jenkin's current research interests include work on sensing strategies for AQUA, an amphibious autonomous robot being developed as a collaboration between Dalhousie University, McGill University and York University; the development of tools and techniques to support crime scene investigation; and the understanding of the perception of self-motion and orientation in unusual environments.
Wednesday, October 15
5:40 PM
UW2 221
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