"LOGIC, DESIGN, AND LEARNING" SEMINAR.

Seminars of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory.



Organizer: Marek A. Perkowski

mperkows@ee.pdx.edu

Participants and their specializations:
  1. Indudhar Devanath, M.S. student, ind@pdx.edu
    (quantum computing, Breitenber vehicles, VHDL, mobile robot learning).
  2. Karen Dill, Ph.D. student, martin_dill@mentor.com
    (genetic algorithms, optimization methods, Reed-Muller and Galois Logic).
  3. Jacob Biamonte, undergraduate student, biamonte@cecs.pdx.edu
    (head building, 3D modelling, mathematics and software development towards quantum learning and quantum-inspired robot control).
  4. Stefan Gebauer, M.S. student, gebs@pdx.edu
    (robot heads, robot theatre, speech processing, emotional robots).
  5. Normen Giesecke, M.S. student, normen@pdx.edu
    (MVSIS, multi-level logic synthesis for Machine Learning, quantum and reversible logic).
  6. Aminul Islam, M.S. student, aminul@pdx.edu
    (robot speech).
  7. Robert Klug, M.S. student, robert.klug@gmx.de
    (robot vision, localization, face recognition).
  8. Steen Larsen, Ph.D. student, steen.larsen@intel.com
    (FPGAs, Computer Architecture).
  9. Martin Lukac, Ph.D. student, lukacm@ece.pdx.edu
    (everything robot related, knowledge engineering, machine learning, Artificial Life, biology, human face musculature and emotions).
  10. Myron Machado, M.S. student, mmachado@pdx.edu
    (software development for robot vision, robot architecture integration).
  11. Dileep Patli, M.S. student, patli@pdx.edu
    (evolvable hardware, VHDL, mobile robot learning).
  12. Kavitha Ramasamy, M.S. student, rk_kavitha@yahoo.com
    (evolvable hardware, VHDL, mobile robot learning).
  13. Bruce Yen, M.S. student, byen@pdx.edu
    (quantum computing, multiple-valued logic, optimization methods, Artificial Intelligence).


PLEASE NOTE, that if your lecture is not completed at a meeting, it is continued automatically the next meeting.

  • PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
    DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL
    AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
    SYMPOSIUM



    The seminars are in FAB 150 room at 4 p.m., FRIDAYS This is changed from Thursdays on popular request.

    SEMINARS AND EVENTS IN WINTER 2004.

    1. Myron Machado January 29.

      Computer Vision for Interactive Robot Head. Overview and research of Myron.

      ABSTRACT. COMPUTER VISION FOR INTERACTIVE ROBOT HEAD

      The progress of our project ``Computer Vision for Interactive Robot Head'' has taken us in the direction of selection of Open CV library from Intel and Capture PRO library from Pegasus and the extraction of relevant information for implementation in my project code.

      The Camera Interface/Capture program kit that I developed provides us with functionalities like:

      * Provides interfaces with any video capture device that supports USB, FireWire, WDM
      * Performs image acquisition from inexpensive capture devices
      * Real-time automatic image acquisition
      * Generates easy to recognize file formats like .jpg
      * Allows selection of available camera resolutions and color formats such as RGB
      * Facility for selection within a vast range of filter effects
      * Manual control of time interval between frame capture
      * Autosave feature allows automatic frame capture with user decided time interval
      * Allows optional automatic overwrite of previous frame with current frame

      All of these features provided will play a vital role in the future development of the Image processing part of our project.

      Myron. Please send me literature in PDF format to be added here.

    2. Bruce Yen February 5.

      Minimization approaches to Reversible Ternary Logic.

      DR. PERKOWSKI WILL BE ABSENT. MARTIN LUKAC IS RESPONSIBLE FOR BEING THERE AND ORGANIZATION.

      ABSTRACT.

      Bruce, Please send me literature in PDF format to be added here.

    3. Normen Giesecke. February 12.

      Master Thesis of Normen Giesecke. Ternary Quantum Logic. Physical Fundaments. Gates. Evolutionary and Exhaustive Search methods. Discussion of other possible approaches to minimization.

      Normen. Please send me literature in PDF format to be added here.

      Indudhar Devanath. February 12.

      Quantum Breitenberg Vehicles. Indudhar, Please send me PDF literature to be added here.

      ABSTRACT.



      Kavitha Ramasamy and her group. February 12.

      Approaches to Evolvable Hardware from Literature. Presentation of three papers.
      Kavitha, please send me PDF of these papers so I can add them here for other students to read.

      ABSTRACT.



    4. Stefan Gebauer. February 19.

      Master Thesis of Stefan Gebauer. Background (Kissmet, robot theatre, work of CMU, MIT and Japanese robots). Software organization in Professor Perky robot. Speech recognition and synthesis. ALICE software for natural language dialog and how to integrate it in Professor Perky Robot.

      Stefan. Please send me literature in PDF format to be added here.

      ABSTRACT.


      Dileep Patli. February 19.

      Using VHDL to design an FPGA-realizable Evolvable Hardware for Mobile Robot control.

      Dileep. Please send me literature in PDF format to be added here.

      Abstract Indudhar.
      Abstract Dileep.
    5. Robert Klug. February 26.

      Thesis Report of Robert Klug. Face Localization and Face Recognition. How to integrate it to Professor Perky robot project.

      Robert. Please send me literature in PDF format to be added here.

      ABSTRACT.

      Kavitha Ramasamy and group. February 26.
      Your own research on Evolvable Hardware for Mobile Robot control.

      ABSTRACT.



    6. Jacob Biamonte. March 4.

      Quantum Learning for robot heads.

      Jake. Please send me literature in PDF format to be added here.

      ABSTRACT.

      Steen Larsen. March 4.

      Design of a board for his new computer architecture.

      Steen. Please send me literature in PDF format to be added here.

      ABSTRACT.

      Martin Lukac. March 4.

      High-level architecture (knowledge, learning, langauge, "psychology") of robot heads for theatre.

      Martin. Please send me literature in PDF format to be added here.

      ABSTRACT.