Richard Alan Peters II
Curriculum Vitae, February 2008
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June 1996 to present: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering.
September 1988 to June 1996: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering.
April 1993 through November 1994: Sverdrup Technology, Arnold Engineering and Development Center, Arnold Air Force Base, TN, Senior Research Engineer – Consulting, part time.
Summer 1990 and 1991: US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arnold Engineering and Development Center, Arnold Air Force Base, TN, Summer Faculty Research Fellow.
September 1980 through August 1988: Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Graduate Research Associate.
Spring semester 1986: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Lecturer.
May 1984 through May 1985: Motorola, Inc., MOS Integrated Circuits Group, Austin, TX, Engineering Consultant, full-time Summer 1984, part-time fall 1984 and Spring 1985.
June 1979 through August 1980: Control Data Corporation, Roseville, MN, Computer Programmer.
January 1986 to August 1988: University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 1988, Major Area: Digital Image Processing.
September 1980 to December 1985: University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, M.S.E.E., Major Area: Digital Signal Processing.
September 1975 to May 1979: Oberlin College, Oberlin , Ohio, A. B., Major Area: Mathematics.
NASA Summer Faculty Fellow, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston TX, Summers 2000-2002, 2005.
NSF/ Japan Science and Technology Agency Fellow, Tsukuba, Japan, March 1996 and Summer 1997.
American Electronics Association Fellow, University of Arizona, Fall 1993 through Spring 1988.
Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta of Ohio, Oberlin College, May 1978.
United States Department of Defense Secret clearance maintained by Sverdrup Technology, Arnold Engineering and Development Center, Arnold Air Force Base. (Inactive)
Refereed Journal Papers
1. Richard Alan Peters II, “On the Computation of the Discrete Log-Polar Transforms”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (in review).
2. Richard Alan Peters II, Kimberly A. Hambuchen, Robert E. Bodenheimer, “The Sensory Ego-Sphere: A mediating interface between sensing and cognition,’’ Autonomous Robots (in press).
3. Christina L. Campbell, Richard Alan Peters II, Robert E. Bodenheimer, William Bluethmann, Eric Huber, Robert O. Ambrose, “Superpositioning of behaviors learned through teleoperation”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 79-81, February 2006.
4. Juan Rojas and Richard Alan Peters II, “Sensory integration with articulated motion on a humanoid robot”, Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, Vol. 2, No. 3–4, pp. 171–178, Dec. 2005
5. Kazuhiko Kawamura, Richard Alan Peters II, Robert E. Bodenheimer, Nilanjan Sarkar, Juyi Park, Charles A. Clifton, Albert W. Spratley, and Kimberly A. Hambuchen, “A parallel distributed cognitive control system for a humanoid robot,” International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, vol. 1, no. 1 pp. 65–93, 2004.
6. Katherine Barbieri and Richard Alan Peters II, “Measure for mis-measure: a response to Gartzke & Li,” Journal of Peace Research, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 713-719, November 2003.
7. Kazuhiko Kawamura, A. Bugra Koku, D. Mitchell Wilkes, Richard Alan Peters II, and Ali Sekman, “Toward egocentric navigation,” International Journal of Robotics and Automation, 17:4, November 2002.
8. Hakan G. Senel, Richard Alan Peters II, and Benoit Dawant, “Topological median filters,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 11 , no. 2 , pp. , 89-104, Feb. 2002
9. Wilkes, D. M, W. Anthony Alford, Todd Pack, Tamara E. Rogers, Edward E. Brown Jr., Richard Alan Peters II, and Kazuhiko Kawamura, “Service robots for rehabilitation and assistance,” in Intelligent Systems and Techniques in Rehabilitation Engineering, CRC Press, pp. 381-411, 2001.
10. Kazuhiko Kawamura, Richard Alan Peters II, D. Mitchell Wilkes, W. Anthony Alford, and Tamara E. Rogers, “ISAC: Foundations in human-humanoid interaction,” IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 38-45, 2000.
11. Wilkes, D. M., W. Anthony Alford, M. Cambron, T. Rogers, R. A. Peters II, and K. Kawamura, “Designing for Human-Robot Symbiosis,” Industrial Robot, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 49-58, 1999.
12. Wilkes, D. M., W. Anthony Alford, Pack, R. T., Rogers, T., Peters, R. A., II, and Kawamura, K., “Toward Socially Intelligent Service Robots,” Applied Artificial Intelligence, vol. 12, pp. 729-766, 1998.
13. Peters, R. A., II and J. A. Nichols, “Rocket plume image sequence enhancement using 3D operators,”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 485-498, April 1997.
14. Peters, R. A., II, M. Bishay, M.E. Cambron, and K. Negishi, “Visual servoing for a service robot,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 19, pp. 213-224, 1996.
15. Peters, R. A. II and M. Bishay, “Centering peripheral features in an indoor environment using a binocular log-polar 4DOF camera head,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 19, pp. 213-224, 1996.
16. Peters, R. A., II, “Morphological pseudo bandpass image decompositions,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 198-213, April, 1996.
17. Peters, R. A., II, “A new algorithm for image noise reduction using mathematical morphology,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 554-568, May 1995.
18. Kawamura, K., R. A. Peters II, S. Bagchi, M. Iskarous, and M. Bishay, “Intelligent robotics systems in service of the disabled,” IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 14-21, March 1995, and “Erratum,” IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 3, no. 4, p.1, December 1995.
19. Cadzow, J. A., D. M. Wilkes, R. A. Peters II, and X. K. Li, “Image texture synthesis-by-analysis using moving-average filters,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1110-1122, July-August 1993.
20. Richard Alan Peters II, “Blue sky research: cooperation between a Japanese company and a U. S. university,” Japan Technical Affairs, pp. 14-19, Summer 1993.
21. Judy G. Thomas, P. Jeanty, R. A. Peters II, and E. A. Parrish, “Automatic measurement of fetal long bones, a feasibility study,” Journal of Ultrasound Medicine, vol. 10, pp. 381-385, 1991.
22. Thomas, J. G., R. A. Peters II, and P. Jeanty, “Automatic segmentation of fetal ultrasound images using morphological operators,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 180-186, June 1991.
23. Peters, R. A., II, “An analysis of the induced polarization dilution factors for a spherical anomaly,” Radio Science, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 477-483, July-August, 1989.
Refereed Conference Papers
1. Richard Alan Peters II, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, and Robert E. Bodenheimer, “Sensory-Motor Manifold Structure Induced by Task Outcome: Experiments with Robonaut”, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE-RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, Genoa, Italy, 5-7 December 2006.
2. Katherine Achim-Fleming , Richard Alan Peters II, and Robert E. Bodenheimer, “Image Mapping and Visual Attention on a Sensory Ego-Sphere,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems , Beijing, China, October 9- 15, 2006, pp 241-246.
3. Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Richard Alan Peters II, and Robert E. Bodenheimer, “Manipulation Manifolds: Explorations into Uncovering Manifolds in Sensory-Motor Spaces’’, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Development and Learning 2006 (ICDL06), Indiana University, Bloomington, May 31- June 3, 2006.
4. Richard Alan Peters II and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, “Uncovering Manifold Structures in Robonaut's Sensory-Data State Space”, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE-RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, Tsukuba, Japan, 5-7 December 2005.
5. Mark Cambron, Steven Northrup and Richard Alan Peters II, “Grasping with PneuHand II”, Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2005), Nashville, TN 13-15 Aug. 2005.
6. Jian Peng and Richard Alan Peters II, “Extraction of salient features for mobile robot navigation via teleoperation,” The 24th American Control Conference (ACC-2005) Portland, Oregon, 8-10 June 2005.
7. Richard Alan Peters II and Xinyu Ao, “Acquisition of topological action maps through teleoperation”, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, April 26-May 1, 2004, vol. 5, pp. 4565 – 4570, 2004.
8. Juan Rojas and Richard Alan Peters II, “Sensory integration with articulated motion on a humanoid robot,” Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Robotics and Automation (ISRA-2004) Queretaro, Mexico, August 25-27, 2004.
9. William Bluethmann, Robert Ambrose, Myron Diftler, Eric Huber, Andy Fagg, Michael Rosenstein, Robert Platt, Roderic Grupen, Cynthia Breazeal, Andrew Brooks, Andrea Lockerd, R. Alan Peters II, O. Chad Jenkins, Maja Mataric, Magdalena Bugajska, “Building an autonomous tool user,” IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2004), Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Nov 10-12, 2004.
10. Richard Alan Peters II and Christina L. Campbell, “Robonaut Task learning through teleoperation”, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, 14-19 Sept. 2003.
11. Robert Ambrose, Robert Savely, William Bluethmann, Eric Huber, Richard Alan Peters II, and David Kortenkamp, “Working and learning with knowledge in the lobes of a humanoid’s mind”, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2-6 October 2003.
12. Jian Peng and Richard Alan Peters II, “Extraction of salient visual features from imagery-motor sequences for mobile robot navigation”, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Washington, DC, October 2003.
13. Carlotta Johnson, A. Bugra Koku, Kazuhiko Kawamura, Richard Alan Peters II, “Enhancing a Human-Robot Interfacing using Sensory Ego-Sphere,” Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-2005), May 11-15, 2002, Washington, DC, 2002.
14. Richard Alan Peters II, Kimberly A. Hambuchen, Kazuhiko Kawamura, and D. Mitchell Wilkes, “The sensory ego-sphere as a short-term memory for humanoids,” Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International. Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 451-459, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 22-24 Nov. 2001.
15. Richard Alan Peters II, Kazuhiko Kawamura, D. Mitchell Wilkes, Kimberly A. Hambuchen, Tamara E. Rogers, and W. Anthony Alford “ISAC humanoid: an architecture for learning and emotion,” Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International. Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 451-459, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 22-24 Nov. 2001.
16. Mark E. Cambron. and Richard Alan Peters II, “Acquisition of Sensory Motor Coordination Parameters by a Humanoid Via Teleoperation,” Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Maui, Hawaii, October 2001.
17. Mark E. Cambron. and Richard Alan Peters II, “Determination of sensory motor coordination parameters for a robot via teleoperation,” Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Tucson, AZ, October 2001.
18. Kazuhiko Kawamura, Richard Alan Peters II, Carlotta Johnson,, Phongchai. Nilas, and Siripun. Thongchai, "Supervisory Control of Mobile Robots using Sensory Egosphere" 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 2001, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Page 531-537, July 29-August 1 2001.
19. Mark E. Cambron. and Richard Alan Peters II, “Learning sensory motor coordination for grasping by a humanoid robot,” Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, October 2000.
20. Joeseph A. Driscoll and Richard Alan Peters II, “A development environment for evolutionary robotics,” Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, October 2000.
21. Brian D. Maciel and Richard Alan Peters II, “A comparison of neural and statistical techniques in object recognition,” Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, October 2000.
22. Jian Peng, Atit Srikaew, D. Mitchell Wilkes, and Richard Alan Peters II, “An active vision system for mobile robots,” Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, October 2000.
23. Sangita Venkatachalam, Greg Nordstrom, Richard Alan Peters II, D. Mitchell Wilkes, and W. Anthony Alford, “Modeling of agent’s behavior using model integrated computing,” Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, October 2000.
24. Kazuhiko Kawamura, W. Anthony Alford, Kimberly A. Hambuchen, D. Mitchell Wilkes and Richard Alan Peters II, “Towards a unified framework for human-humanoid interaction,” Proceedings of 1st IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, MIT, September 2000.
25. Richard Alan Peters II, D. Mitchell Wilkes, Daniel M. Gaines, and Kazuhiko Kawamura, “A software agent based control system for human-robot interaction,” Second International Symposium on Humanoid Robots, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. October 8-9, 1999.
26. Joseph A. Driscoll, Richard Alan Peters II, and Kyle S. Cave, “A visual attention network for a humanoid robot,” Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotic Systems, Victoria, B. C., Canada, October 12-16, 1998.
27. Lappin, J. S., R. F. Haglund, R. A. Peters II, J. D. Hamilton, and J. S. Oliver, "Surface micro-structure and visible image structure," The Proceedings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, ARVO-97, 1997.
28. Magued Bishay, Mark E. Cambron, Richard Alan Peters II, and Kazuhiko Kawamura, “Visual servoing in ISAC, a decentralized robot system for feeding the disabled,” Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Symposium on Computer Vision, November 1995.
29. Richard Alan Peters II, Magued Bishay, Mark E. Cambron, “Visual servoing in ISAC, a robotic system in the service of the disabled,” IEEE Workshop on Human - Robot Symbiosis, Tsukuba, Japan, May 1995.
30. D. Mitchell Wilkes, Magued Bishay, Richard Alan Peters II, “Saccadic motion to peripheral features in indoor scenes,” IEEE Workshop on Human - Robot Symbiosis, Tsukuba, Japan, May 1995.
31. Magued Bishay, Richard Alan Peters II, and Kazuhiko Kawamura, “Object detection in indoor scenes using the log-polar mapping,” IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Diego, 1994.
32. Richard Alan Peters II and Robin N. Strickland, “Morphological image segmentation for measuring image complexity,” IEEE-ASSP and EURASIP, Fifth Workshop on Multidimensional Signal Processing, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 14-16 September 1987.
Invited Papers
1. Richard Alan Peters II, D. Mitchell Wilkes, Daniel M. Gaines, and Kazuhiko Kawamura, “A biologically motivated software architecture for an intelligent humanoid robot,” Invited Paper, International Advanced Robotics Program Workshop on Biologically Motivated Service Robots, Jena, Germany, 21-23 June, 1999.
2. Richard Alan Peters II, “Mathematical morphology for color images: erosion, dilation, opening, and closing of the hue,” invited paper, 1996 International Symposium on Imaging Science and Technology, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, September 1996.
3. Richard Alan Peters II and Robin N. Strickland, “A review of image complexity metrics for automatic target recognizers,” invited paper, The Eighth Meeting of Optical Engineering in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel 14-16 December 1992.
4. Richard Alan Peters II and Robin N. Strickland, “Image complexity metrics for automatic target recognizers,”. invited paper, 1990 Automatic Target Recognizer System and Technology Conference, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Silver Spring, MD, 30-31 October 1990.
Conference Papers
1. Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Richard Alan Peters II, and Robert E. Bodenheimer, “Uncovering Success in Manipulation”, Robotics, Science, and Systems II (conference), Workshop on Manipulation for Human Environments, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, August 16-19, 2006. Published online at the Internet Archive (URL: http://www.archive.org) by the Workshop Organizers: Charles C. Kemp, Lijin Aryananda, Aaron Edsinger, Paul Fitzpatrick, Lorenzo Natale, and Eduardo Torres-Jara. URL: http://tinyurl.com/29t4bh.
2. Tadin, D., Haglund, R. F. Jr., Lappin, J. S., and Peters, R. A. (2001). Effects of surface microstructure on macroscopic image shading. Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VI, 4299, 221-230. San Jose, CA.
3. Mark E. Cambron, Richard Alan Peters II, D. Mitchell Wilkes, and Kazuhiko Kawamura, “Human centered robot design and the problem of grasping,” Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Mechatronics, Okayama, Japan, 3-6 August, 1998.
4. Jason Blue Barile, Magued Bishay, Mark E. Cambron, Richard Watson, Richard Alan Peters II, and Kazuhiko Kawamura, “Color-based initialization for human tracking with a trinocular camera system,” Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Manufacturing, Cancun, Mexico, May 30, 1997.
5. Richard Alan Peters II “Mathematical morphology for angle valued images,” Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Electronic Imaging, Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, San Jose, CA, Feb. 1997
6. Richard Alan Peters II, and James A. Nichols, “Properties of image sequences generated through opening residuals,” Image Algebra and Morphological Image Processing V, Proc. SPIE, vol. 2300, pp. 57-68, July 1994.
7. Koji Fujiwara, Richard Alan Peters II, and Kazuhiko Kawamura, “Colored-object detection for a mobile robot,” Applications of Digital Image Processing XVII, Proc. SPIE, vol. 2298, pp. 457-470, July 1994.
8. Richard Alan Peters II, and James A. Nichols, “Morphological bandpass decomposition of images,” Nonlinear Image Processing V, Proc. SPIE, vol. 2180, pp. 163-174, February 1994.
9. Magued Bishay, Atsushi Kara, D. Mitchell Wilkes, Richard Alan Peters II, and Kazuhiko Kawamura, “An active vision approach for locating salient features of objects using log-polar mapping with no camera motion,” Vision Interface 94, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1994.
10. D. Mitchell Wilkes, James A. Cadzow, and Richard Alan Peters II, “Models for the simulation of infrared backgrounds,” Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Characterization, Propagation, and Simulation of Sources and Backgrounds, Orlando, April 1991.
11. Lappin, J. S., Ratcliffe, J. G. Tschantz, S. T., and Peters, R. A. “The geometry of Vision”, Proc. Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, August 1990.
12. Richard Alan Peters II, “The behavior of the dilution factors for a spherical anomaly in the theory of induced polarization,” Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon '89, Columbia, South Carolina, April 1989.
13. Richard Alan Peters II and Robin N. Strickland, “Image analysis using hit-or-miss transforms with resolution pyramids,” Applications of Digital Image Processing IX, Proc. SPIE, vol. 697, August 1986.
Technical Reports
1. Richard Alan Peters II, Kazuhiko Kawamura, D. Mitchell Wilkes, Daniel M. Gaines, Robert O. Ambrose, Robot learning and problem solving through teleoperation with application to human - robot teaming: a white paper, Technical Report, Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Center for Intelligent Systems, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, November 2000.
2. Richard Alan Peters II, Magued Bishay, and Tamara E. Rogers, On the computation of the log-polar transform, Technical Report, Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Center for Intelligent Systems, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, March 1996.
Thesis & Dissertation
1. Richard Alan Peters II, A Linear Prediction Coding Model of Speech, M. S. Thesis, University of Arizona, Tucson, December 1985.
2. Richard Alan Peters II, Image Complexity Measurement for Predicting Target Detectability, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, August 1988.
1. Architecture for Robot Intelligence, U. S. Patent no. 6,697,707, granted 24 February 2004 (19 claims).
2. Architecture for Multiple Interacting Robot Intelligences, U. S. Patent no. 7,328,196, granted 5 February 2008 (7 claims).
1. Peters, R. A., II, “Lectures on Image Processing”, nos. 1-18. URL: http://www.archive.org/details/Lectures_on_Image_Processing, 2007.
2. Peters, R. A., II, “Software for 2D and 3D mathematical morphology,” a report which describes the software listed below. (This report differs from the USAF final report of the same title listed elsewhere in this document.) 1994.
3. Peters, R. A., II, “morph,” C / UNIX software for 2D mathematical morphology, 1990-1995.
4. Peters, R. A., II, “morph3d,” C / UNIX software for 3D mathematical morphology, 1990-1995.
5. Peters, R. A., II, “mclean,” C / UNIX software for image noise reduction using mathematical morphology, 1990-1995.
6. Peters, R. A., II, “ip,” C / UNIX software for various image processing utilities such as logical and arithmetic operations, connected component labeling, skeletonization, linear filtering, and FFTs, 1990-1995.
Academic Year 2007-2008
· EECE 218, Microcontrollers. Spring 2008
· EECE 254, Computer Vision, Spring 2008.
· EECE 204, 398 Independent Studies, Spring 20018.
· EECE 351, The Visual System, Spring 2008.
· EECE 253, Image Processing, Fall 2007.
· EECE 311, Systems Theory, Fall 2007.
· EECE 203, 397 Independent Studies, Fall 2007.
Academic Year 2006-2007
· EECE 218, Microcontrollers. Spring 2007
· EECE 254, Computer Vision, Spring 2007.
· EECE 204, 398 & CMPE 204, Independent Studies, Spring 2007.
· EECE 351, The Visual System, Spring 2007.
· EECE 253, Image Processing, Fall 2006.
· EECE 311, Systems Theory, Fall 2006.
· EECE 203, 397 & CMPE 203, Independent Studies, Fall 2006.
Academic Year 2005-2006
· CMPE 204, Independent Study, Spring 2006.
· CS 240B, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2006
· EECE 351, The Visual System, Spring 2006.
· EECE 254, Computer Vision, Spring 2006.
· EECE 253, Image Processing, Fall 2005.
· EECE 311, Systems Theory, Fall 2005.
Academic Year 2004-2005
· EECE 252, Signal Processing and Communications, Spring 2005.
· EECE 254, Computer Vision, Spring 2005.
· EECE 351, The Visual System, Spring 2005.
· EECE 203 & CMPE 203, Independent Study, Fall 2004.
· EECE 253, Image Processing, Fall 2004.
· EECE 311, Systems Theory, Fall 2004.
Academic Year 2003-2004
· EECE 252, Signal Processing and Communications, Spring 2004.
· EECE 254, Computer Vision, Spring 2004.
· EECE 351, The Visual System, Spring 2004.
· EECE 253, Image Processing, Fall 2003.
· EECE 311, Systems Theory, Fall 2003.
Academic Year 2002-2003
· EECE 252, Signal Processing and Communications, Spring 2003.
· EECE 254, Computer Vision, Spring 2003.
· EECE 351, The Visual System, Spring 2003.
· EECE 253, Image Processing, Fall 2002.
· EECE 311, Systems Theory, Fall 2002.
Academic Year 2001 - 2002:
· EECE 254, Computer Vision, Spring 2002.
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· EE 303, Electromagnetic Theory, Spring 1989.
· EE 311, Systems Theory, Fall 1988.
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Invited lectures:
1. “Intelligent robots at work”, UPS annual executive meeting, Atlanta, GA, September 2007.
2. Richard Alan Peters II, “Robot Dreams: Conjectures on Creative Problem Solving”, IEEE-RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, Workshop: Toward Cognitive Robots, Genoa, Italy, 5 December 2006.
3. Richard Alan Peters II, “Extraction of Behaviors through Teleoperation”, Robotics, Systems, and Science, Workshop on Modular Foundations for Control and Perception, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 11 June 2005.
4. DARPA-MARS 2020 PI meeting, New Orleans, LA, 24 April 2004: “Acquisition of Autonomous Behaviors by Robotic Assistants: Task Learning & Control Architecture.”
5. DARPA-MARS 2020 PI meeting, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 18 Aug 2004, “MARS-2020 Vanderbilt Contributions: Sensory Ego-Sphere, Learning Behaviors.”
6. Acquisition of Autonomous Behaviors by Robotic Assistants, DARPA-MARS PI meeting, Fredericksburg, VA, 23 September 2003.
7. Task Learning via Sensory Motor Coordination, DARPA-MARS PI meeting, San Diego, CA, 8 April 2003.
8. Robot Acquisition of Basic Behaviors through Teleoperation, University of Southern California, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, Interaction Lab, 12 February 2003.
9. Robonaut Task Learning through Teleoperation, DARPA MARS PI meeting, September 2002.
10. Bootstrapping Intelligent Behavior, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, June 2002.
11. Recent research at the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Vanderbilt University, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 20 November 2001.
12. The Sensory Ego-Sphere, NASA Johnson Space Center, 17 Houston, TX, August 2001.
13. Sensory motor coordination in Robonaut, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 11 August 2000.
14. A software agent based control system for human-robot interaction, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 9 June 2000.
15. A parallel, distributed, agent-based control system for a humanoid robot, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich, June 1999.
16. Research on human-robot interaction in the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Vanderbilt University, National Consortium for Science Information Systems, Tokyo, Japan, February 1999.
17. A Software Agent Based Control System for Human-Robot Interaction, Second International Symposium on Humanoid Robots, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. October 9, 1999.
18. A Biologically Motivated Software Architecture for an Intelligent Humanoid Robot, International Advanced Robotics Program Workshop on Biologically Motivated Service Robots, Jena, Germany, 21-23 June, 1999.
19. A visual attention network for a humanoid robot, International Advanced Robotics Program Workshop on Humanoid and Human Friendly Robots, Tsukuba, Japan, October, 1998.
20. Fixation point servoing, Electro-technical Laboratory of the Science and Technology Agency, Japan Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Tsukuba, Japan, July 1997.
21. Mathematical Morphology for Color Images, 1996 International Symposium on Imaging Science and Technology, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, September 1996.
22. Current research in vision-guided robotics, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan, March 1996.
23. Vision guided robotics to aid the handicapped, Nihon Fukusi University, Nagoya, Japan April 1996.
24. Effects of culture, religion, and aesthetics on the practice of engineering in Japan, Vanderbilt US–Japan Center, September, 1995.
25. Current trends in computer vision theory and technology, given in Japan at several universities and corporations, June, 1992 and August, 1993.
26. Image complexity metrics, given in Israel at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba, and at the Eighth Meeting of Optical Engineering in Israel in Tel-Aviv, December, 1992.
27. Image complexity metrics for automatic target recognizers, at the 1990 Automatic Target Recognizer System and Technology Conference, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Silver Spring, MD, October, 1990.