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William P Ross Principal NREC Commericalizaton Special Associated center: NREC Email address: br@cs.cmu.edu Office: NREC 219 Phone: (412) 681-5906 Fax: 412-268-8384 Mailing address: National Robotics Engineering Center 10 40th Street Pittsburgh, PA 15201 For more information, see my personal homepage.

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Research interests

My primary interests are in high-speed computer vision for autonomous robots and mobile robot systems. In the past I have worked on the Navlab, Dante and other robots. My current projects include the development of a very powerful and general vision machine for industrial and robotic applications and the development of an autonomous robot boat for offshore science use.

This section last updated - January 1999.

Research interest keywords

active perception, architectures, computer vision, field robotics, image processing, inspection, mobile robots, parallel computing, and stereo vision

Current Projects [Past projects]

M2000: A Semi-Autonomous System for High-Speed Paint Removal - Automated paint removal system for large ships	Reconfigurable Vision Machine - Developing new hardware and software for high performance computer vision.
Robot Boat Project - We are developing a small solar-powered robot for long-term offshore science experiments. Applications include meteorology, oceanography, marine biology and other marine sciences.

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.

• A Semi-Autonomous Robot for Stripping Paint from Large Vessels
  W.P. Ross, J. Bares, and C. Fromme
  The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 22, No. 7 - 8, July, 2003, pp. 617 - 626. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [243 KB] copyrighted

• A Practical Stereo Vision System
  W.P. Ross
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 1993, pp. 148 - 153. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [681 KB] copyrighted

• TORCS: A Teleoperated Robot Control System for the Self Mobile Space Manipulator
  M. Uenohara, W.P. Ross, and M. Friedman
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-91-07, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1991. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [924 KB] copyrighted