This award is to purchase a multiple degree of freedom, high precision, light weight stereo camera head. The same equipment is being purchased at three other institution in a shared research effort. Research topics include gaze control and target tracking, stereo and motion analysis, landmark- based navigation, automatic acquisition of object and environmental models, hands-eye coordination, dextrous manipulation with multi-fingered hands, real-time perception and manipulation. System software, algorithms and subsystems will be shared across the institutions. The University of Pennsylvania will be purchasing equipment to support a multi-institutional shared research effort in active vision for robot navigation and manipulation. Other members of the consortium are the University of Rochester, University of Maryland and the University of Massachusetts. Each institution will acquire the same stat-of-the-art binocular camera head of high precision and high speed, and will share in the development of systems software and applications software.
