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Colloquia & Symposia

Organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and the Northern Nevada IEEE

Welcome to our Colloquium Series. All faculty and students are encouraged to attend the colloquium series. This is a great opportunity for graduate students to learn more about the various research areas in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and other related fields.

Suggestions for speakers are always welcome!
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Dr. Kostas Bekris
Email: bekris@cse.unr.edu
Phone: (775) 784-4527

Dr. Mehmet Gunes
Email: mgunes@cse.unr.edu
Phone: (775) 784-4313

Dr. Sami Fadali
Email: fadali@ieee.org
Phone: (775) 784-6951

Terry Fong, Ph.D. Director, Intelligent Robotics Group, NASA Ames Research Center

Biography Dr. Terry Fong is the Director of the Intelligent Robotics Group at the NASA Ames Research Center. Prior to this, Dr. Fong was the deputy leader of the Virtual Reality and Active Interfaces Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). From 1997 to 2000, he was Vice President of Development for Fourth Planet, Inc., a developer of real-time visualization software. Dr. Fong has published more than seventy papers in field robotics, human-robot interaction, and virtual reality user interfaces. Dr. Fong received his B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and his Ph.D. in Robotics from CMU.

Location: SEM-234
Friday, November 13, at 12:00pm.
Sponsored and organized by the CSE, EBME, IEEE

Field Testing of Utility Robots for Lunar Surface Operations. For the past five years, NASA has been working to return humans to the Moon. In contrast to Apollo, two key objectives of the current exploration program are to establish surface infrastructure and sustained human presence. This will enable comprehensive, detailed exploration of the Moon. To achieve these objectives, robotic systems will be needed to perform work which cannot, or should not, be performed by humans. Some of this work will be performed in parallel with human activity, but many tasks can be done before and after humans are on the Moon. In this talk, I will summarize how the NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group has been developing and field testing "utility robots" for lunar surface operations.

UNR CSE Host: Dr. George Bebis