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Richard Alan Peters II, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Alan Peters is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a member of the Center for Intelligent Systems where he directs research on the humanoid robot, ISAC, and on various mobile robots at the Cognitive Robotics Laboratory. He is also has worked with members of the Department of Psychology Cognitive Sciences Group, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He is a member of the NASA Robonaut research team and is the Chief Technology Officer of Universal Robotics. Curriculum Vita (HTML) or (PDF) |
Teaching
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Computer Vision |
EECE 254 Computer Vision I |
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Engineering Mathematics |
EECE 311 Systems Theory |
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Image Processing |
EECE 253 Image Processing I |
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Microcontrollers |
EECE 218 Introduction to Microcontrollers |
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Robotics |
EECE 395-2 Special Topics: Behavior-Based Robotics |
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Signal Processing |
EECE 253 Signal Processing and Communications |
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Alan Peters's current research is on the acquisition of intelligent behaviors by sensory-guided robots. His previous work includes image processing, mathematical morphology, and electromagnetic scattering. Sensory-guided robotics is the integration of exteroception (such as computer vision, audition, touch, range mapping) and proprioception (the sensing of internal states including joint position and velocity) with action for navigation, articulated motion, and dexterous manipulation. Peters is studying the integration of these functions through the robot learning of Sensory-Motor Coordination (SMC). The approach builds on the self-organization of SMC information in response to a robot's actions within a loosely structured environment. The goal is to enable a robot to learn through its own experiences and, ultimately, to interact naturally with the world. Many of the papers listed in his CV are on these subjects. Mathematical morphology is a theory of nonlinear image processing that is
primarily concerned with the quantitative analysis of shape. Peters's primary theoretical contributions to the subject
are the description and properties of pseudo bandpass
morphological filters and a definition of a mathematical morphology for color
images. His primary practical contributions have been morphological
methods for image noise reduction and feature enhancement as well as a freely
distributed software package (for unix) that implements the morphological image operators
and algorithms for use on digital images. See his Lecture
Notes on Image Processing for an introduction to the subject.
Images can be created in part because electromagnetic radiation in the
form of visible light is scattered by material surfaces. The appearance
of an object in an image is determined both by the shape of the object and
the light scattering properties of the materials in the object. Given
an image of an object, if the scattering function is known, it is theoretically
possible to mathematically determine the shape of the object. Peters has
researched the scattering of light from objects as a function of the micro
scale structure of surfaces. Such analysis could lead to useful algorithms
for the determination of shape from shading. See his Lecture
Notes on Light Scattering for an introduction to the subject. For a
general introduction to the history of electromagnetism see, A Brief
Outline of the History of Electromagnetics. Document Viewers To view the files listed above and in the cv, you will need an Adobe PDF viewer (for the .pdf files) and a Microsoft PowerPoint viewer for the .ppt files. To download a viewer click on its name in the previous sentence.
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Education
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Ph.D. |
1988 |
University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona, USA. |
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M.S. |
1985 |
University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona,
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A.B. |
1979 |
Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio, USA. |
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H.S. |
Music |
1974 |
Youngsville
High School, Youngsville
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Contact
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Office |
322 Featheringill Hall |
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Mailing |
Vanderbilt University |
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(615) 322-7924 |
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(615) 343-6702 |
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Personal Homepage: |
Lamoid F. Llurbybabbin, Ltd. Is currently unavailable but see my flickr pages for pictures. |
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