Research

Control systems; state estimation; data and information fusion; redundancy; sliding mode systems; non-linear systems; vision, mapping and localization; sensing, control and state estimation methods for navigation and guidance of unmanned vehicle systems; vision, state estimation and information fusion for robotics and biomedical applications.

Application

The research has been applied in large scale robotic landmine detections systems for the Canadian military, automation of underground mining machines for Canadian industry, and in detection and analysis of eye motion for automation of retinal surgery.

Activities

Program Committees:

• IEEE Int. Instrumentation and Measurement
• IEEE Int. Conf. Automation and Logistics
• IEEE Int. Wkshp. Robotic & Sensor Environments

Journal Articles

D.K. MacKinnon, V.C. Aitken, and F. Blais (2008), “A Review of Quality Metrics for Range Imaging,” SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging 17(3) (publication pending).

D.K. MacKinnon, V.C. Aitken, and F. Blais (2008), “Quality Metrics for Laser Range Scanning,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (publication pending).

Conference Publications

D.K. MacKinnon, V.C. Aitken, and F. Blais, “Using Quality Metrics with Laser Range Scanners,” EPIE Symp. Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, Jan 2008.

D.K. MacKinnon, V.C. Aitken, and F. Blais, “Adaptive Laser Range Scanning,” American Control Conference, Jun 2008.

D.K. MacKinnon, V.C. Aitken, and F. Blais, “Adaptive Laser Range Scanning using Quality Metrics,” IEEE Int’l Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 2008.

D.K. MacKinnon, V.C. Aitken, and F. Blais, “Adaptive Laser Range Scanning,” IEEE Int’l Workshop Robotics and Sensor Environments, Oct 2007.