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Peter Coppin
Project Scientist

No longer a member of RI.

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Biography

Coppin's work spans interactive art and telerobotics applied to art, entertainment and education. Coppin's work focuses on the creation of a medium for distributed public experience of real remote locations using publicly accessible information technology to allow members of the public to access remote sites via specialized robotics visualization and control devices at the remote sites.

Currently Coppin is Principal Investigator of the NASA-funded EventScope Project. EventScope's resources, technology and team methodology are directed toward public visualization and experience of real remote locations through mobile and remote field robots. EventScope adapts NASA 3D virtual world data sets to Internet-friendly protocols so the public, students and scientists can "virtually explore" sites of real science missions and participate in missions as they are happening, as well as relive completed missions. Similar goals and methodologies guided Coppin in his previous role as director of the Big Signal Project (www.bigsignal.net), an Internet portal for public visualization, exploration and participation in the NASA / CMU Robotic Search for Antarctic Meteorites. As part of the visualization and mechanical team for the earlier NASA / CMU Atacama Desert Trek, Coppin co-designed and produced the interactive television show Rover TV, which allowed the TV viewing public to remotely control the Nomad Rover during its field trials in the Atacama Desert.

Past Projects

Big Signal - We are developing multidisciplinary projects that allow the public to remotely experience places they could not otherwise visit.

EventScope - EventScope's goal is to develop a teaching tool that lets students actively explore 3D representations of NASA mission sites while participating in a cross-disciplinary curriculum that illustrates scientific theories and principles with real-world data from the site.

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Life in the Atacama — Year 2: Geologic Reconnaissance Through Long-Range Roving and Implications on the Search for Life
  J.M. Dohm, N.A. Cabrol, E.A. Grin, J. Moersch, G.C. Diaz, C. Cockell, P. Coppin, G. Fisher, A.N. Hock, L. Marinangeli, E. Minkley, G.G. Ori, J.L. Piatek, K. Warren-Rhodes, S. Weinstein, M. Wyatt, T. Smith, M.D. Wagner, K. Stubbs, G. Thomas, and J. Glasgow
  Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXVI, March, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [106 KB] copyrighted

• Searching for Life with Rovers: Exploration Methods and Science Results from the 2004 Field Campaign of the "Life in the Atacama" Project and Applications to Future Mars Missions
  N.A. Cabrol, D. Wettergreen, W.L. Whittaker, E.A. Grin, J. Moersch, G.C. Diaz, C. Cockell, P. Coppin, J.M. Dohm, G. Fisher, A.N. Hock, L. Marinangeli, E. Minkley, G.G. Ori, J. Piatek, A. Waggoner, K. Warren-Rhodes, S. Weinstein, M. Wyatt, F. Calderon, S. Heys, D. Jonak, R.A. Luders, D. Pane, T. Smith, K. Stubbs, J. Teza, P. Tompkins, D. Villa, C. Williams, M.D. Wagner, G. Thomas, and J. Glasgow
  Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXVI, March, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [70 KB] copyrighted

• Spectroscopic Results from the Life in the Atacama (LITA) Project 2004 Field Season
  J.L. Piatek, J.E. Moersch, M. Wyatt, M. Rampey, N.A. Cabrol, D. Wettergreen, W.L. Whittaker, E.A. Grin, G.C. Diaz, C. Cockell, P. Coppin, J.M. Dohm, G. Fisher, A.N. Hock, L. Marinangeli, E. Minkley, G.G. Ori, A. Waggoner, K. Warren-Rhodes, S. Weinstein, D. Apostolopoulos, T. Smith, M.D. Wagner, K. Stubbs, G. Thomas, and J. Glasgow
  Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXVI, March, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [137 KB] copyrighted

• Using Near Real-time Mission Data for Education and Public Outreach: Strategies from the Life in the Atacama E/PO Report
  E. Myers, P. Coppin, M.D. Wagner, K. Fischer, D.L. Lu, R. McCloskey, D. Seneker, N. Cabrol, D. Wettergreen, and A. Waggoner
  Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXVI, March, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [167 KB] copyrighted

• EventScope: Bringing Remote Experience of Mars to the Public through Telepresence
  E. Myers, P. Coppin, M.D. Wagner, K. Fischer, D.L. Lu, W.R. McCloskey, and D. Seneker
  2004 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, October, 2004, pp. 16 - 17. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [197 KB] copyrighted

• EventScope: A Telescience Interface for Internet-Based Education
  P. Coppin, M.D. Wagner, and T.E. Team
  Presented at the Workshop on Telepresence for Education, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [715 KB] copyrighted

• Reality Browsing: Using Information Interaction and Robotic Autonomy for Planetary Exploration
  P. Coppin, M.D. Wagner, and S. Thayer
  Space Technology and Applications International Forum 2001 (STAIF 2001), Mohamed S. El-Genk, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, Vol. 552, February, 2001, pp. 64-69. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [72 KB] copyrighted

• EventScope: Amplifying Human Knowledge and Experience via Intelligent Robotic Systems and Information Interaction
  P. Coppin, R. Pell, M.D. Wagner, J.R. Hayes, J. Li, L. Hall, K. Fischer, D. Hirschfield, and W.L. Whittaker
  IEEE International Workshop on Robot-Human Interaction, Osaka, Japan, September 2000, September, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [34 KB] copyrighted

• Big Signal: Information Interaction for Public Telerobotic Exploration
  P. Coppin, A. Morrissey, M.D. Wagner, M. Vincent, and G. Thomas
  Presented at the Workshop on Current Challenges in Internet Robotics, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [474 KB] copyrighted