The Robotics Institute

Rather than only miniaturizing existing capabilities, our goal is to bring new capabilities to vision systems. For most of our implementations there is no conventional system substitute. Simply, conventional systems cannot do what our sensors do because either the sensor signal is missing or the system is not fast enough to cope with continuous events in the physical world.

Our solutions manipulate parameters and arrangements in three areas:

1. image formation and sensing,
2. on-chip computation using analog and mixed-mode circuits, and
3. system integration using commercial embedded processors and networks.

Mainly, the superior performance of our sensors come from analog on-chip signal processing that enables low latency and rapid adaptation to environmental changes. Miniature size, low power and low cost are added benefits of our solutions.