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• 3D Mine Mapping - We are developing robotic systems for automated 3D mine mapping.
• AAM Fitting Algorithms - Many varieties of algorithms for fitting Cootes and Taylor's "Active Appearance Models" are developed.
• ASAP - non-contact 3-D surgical instrument tracking for device testing and surgeon assessment
• Automated Turf Management - This project deals with automated management and mowing of large areas of turf, such as golf courses, sports fields, and parks
• Autonomous Agricultural Spraying - We are developing ground-based vehicles for pesticide application.
• Autonomous Ground Vehicle Design - Pursuing high speed navigation of unrehearsed terrain in pursuit of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
• Autonomous Navigation System - The NREC is leading the development of perception and path planning within the Autonomous Navigation System program for the Future Combat System.
• BeatBots - We are developing robots that can participate in coordinated rhythmic social interactions with people.
• Caisson Construction 3D Modeling System - The Kajima project is developing a system to image/sense/map the terrain of the interior of a caisson.
• Cohn-Kanade AU-Coded Facial Expression Database - An AU-coded database of over 2000 video sequences of over 200 subjects displaying various facial expressions.
• Component Analysis for Data Analysis - Component analysis (CA) is a set of techniques to decompose a signal (e.g. audio, video) into interesting components useful for classification, clustering, modeling or visualization. This project extends traditional CA techniques and unifies them, providing a cleaner theoretical framework for its analysis.
• Computer Assisted Medical Instrument Navigation - We are developing a system to help clinicians to precisely navigate various catheters inside human hearts.
• Conveyor Belt Inspection System - NREC designed, built and tested a high-speed "machine vision" system for monitoring the condition of conveyor belts such as those used in underground coal mines.
• Crusher - NREC designed and developed the Crusher vehicle to support the UPI program's rigorous field experimentation schedule.
• Dexterous Haptic Interface for Interaction with Remote/Virtual Environments - Convey finger touch and force information to a human operator
• Dismount Control Project - We are deveopling Dismount, a system used to track position of an individual and programming a robot to follow it.
• Explorer^TM - The NREC is developing an untethered, long range (2,500 ft +), gas line visual inspection robot system that provides real-time video from inside the line, can be deployed in live lines, and can pass through all angles and bends of both 6" and 8" lines.
• Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot - Very Low Cost - We are deveopling a suite of highly capable mobile robots for Explosive Ordnance Disposal and First Responders which are very low in total ownership costs.
• Face Detection - We are developing computer methods to automatically locate human faces in photos and video.
• Face Detection Databases - A collection of databases for training and testing face detectors.
• Face Recognition Across Illumination - Recognizing people from faces: video and still iamges.
• Gas Mains Repair and Inspection System for Live Entry Environments - GRISLEE, a remotely controllable, modular leak-detection, imaging and repair robot system for the real-time in-situ inspection and repair of live distribution gas mains.
• Gladiator - The NREC-led team designed, developed and field tested and successfully demonstrated a Gladiator robotic system with high mobility and remote combat capabilities.
• GPU-accelerated Computer Vision - We are exploiting programmable graphics hardware to improve existing vision algorithms and enable novel approaches to robot perception.
• Human Odometer - We are developing the Human Odometer - a system designed for situational awareness for firefighter tracking.
• Image Enhancement for Faces - Video enhancement techniques, specifically tailored for human faces.
• Indoor People Localization - Tracking multiple people in indoor environments with the connectivity of Bluetooth devices.
• Learning Applied to Ground Robots Platform - NREC designed, built and delivered 12 turnkey robots in seven months to support the LAGR Program kick-off meeting.
• M2000: A Semi-Autonomous System for High-Speed Paint Removal - Automated paint removal system for large ships
• Magnetic Levitation Haptic Consortium - Low-cost, high-fidelity haptic magnetic levitation haptic interface systems for use by a consortium of haptics researchers in the United States
• Mars Autonomy - Long-distance marsrover navigation with minimal human intervention.
• Medical Image Registration - We use planar X-ray images to estimate the position and orientation of patient anatomy with respect to an external coordinate frame.
• Mobile Autonomous Robot Software - Develop complete, effective and scalable software for autonomous robot teams. Demonstrate robot teams with integrated action, perception, reasoning, communication and cooperative strategies that solve complex multiagent tasks.
• Motion Free Scanning Radar - We incorporate the current state of the art in non-mechanical scanning antenna technology with advanced millimeter-wave ranging technology to enable a small, reliable, and affordable imaging-radar sensor with no moving parts. Sensors will be demonstrated on the sponsor's equipment in typical operating scenarios and environments.
• Multimodal Diaries - Summarization of daily activity from multimodal data (audio, video, body sensors and computer monitoring)
• Object Recognition Using Statistical Modeling - Automobile and human face detection via statistical modeling.
• Perception for Humanoid Robots - Real-time perception algorithms for autonomous humanoid navigation, manipulation and interaction.
• PerceptOR (NREC) - We have developed a novel semi-autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) that includes a dedicated unmanned air vehicle - a "Flying Eye" - that flies ahead of the UGV to detect hazards before the onboard UGV sensors would.
• Predicting Risk of Alzheimer's Disease From Shape Features - The goal of this project is to use computer vision techniques to help predict risk of Alzheimer's Disease in elderly patients.
• Reconfigurable Vision Machine - Developing new hardware and software for high performance computer vision.
• Reflectance Perception - We have developed Reflectance Perception - an image processing software that intelligently compensates for illumination problems in digital pictures.
• Robotic Soccer - The RoboSoccer project develops collaboration among multiple autonomous agents.
• Sonic Flashlight^TM - We are developing a method of medical visualization that merges real time ultrasound images with direct human vision.
• Spatio-Temporal Facial Expression Segmentation - A two-step approach temporally segment facial gestures from video sequences. It can register the rigid and non-rigid motion of the face.
• Telepresence Robot Kit - To design, create, and disseminate robotics curricula and technologies that motivate young women and men to actively explore science and technology.
• The Electric Cable Differential (ECD) Leg - We are designing a bipedal robot to be capable of running, walking, jumping, hopping, and generally behaving in a highly dynamic manner.
• Toy Robots Initiative - The Toy Robots Initiative aims to commercialize robotics technologies in the educational, toy and entertainment fields.
• Treasure Hunt: Pickup Teams - We are developing a single heterogeneous human-robot team capable of effectively locating objects of interest (treasure) spread over a complex, previously unknown environment.
• UGCV PerceptOR Integrated - The UPI (UGCV PerceptOR Integrated) program integrates and enhances the results from UGCV and PerceptOR to increase the speed and autonomy of unmanned ground vehicles operating in complex terrain. By combining the inherent mobility of Spinner with advanced perception techniques including the use of learning and prior terrain data, the UPI program stresses system design across vehicle, sensors and software so that the strengths of one component compensate for the weaknesses of another.
• Vehicle Safeguarding - The NREC designed, developed and tested a fully autonomous system capable of following pre-taught paths while detecting and avoiding obstacles.
• Vehicle Stability Prediction - NREC pioneered an easy-to-implement solution to a serious but frequently overlooked problem — stability margin estimation as it relates to vehicular rollover and tipover vulnerabilities.
• VISTA - On the Vista project we are developing devices that image upto a full 360 degrees in azimuth. The imagery we are getting is ideal for estimation of egomotion (localization) as well as for extracting shape from a sequence of images.
• XAlign - 2D/3D registration technique is used to analyze the postoperative pelvic radiographs and to measure placement of implants after total hip replacement