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BSC Representatives Accept Invitation
to Participate in International Optical
Engineering Organization Conference
( Bluefield)—Bluefield State College faculty members Dr. Robert Riggins and Professor Bruce Mutter will be among featured presenters at the “OpticsEast” international conference later this year in Boston. The four-day event brings together researchers and the research behind many of the current breakthroughs in a comprehensive array of optics-related topics.
The BSC faculty will deliver a professional paper that addresses two aspects of autonomous navigation—sensor integration and path finding navigation--in intelligent vehicles. Riggins and Mutter (Director of the Center for Applied Research and Technology [CART] at BSC) developed the paper following the success and experience of BSC student-team designed autonomous vehicles that won four world championships during the past three years at collegiate-level competitions. “Our students’ research provided important information in the development of the paper,” Riggins noted.
The CART-developed intelligent vehicles rely on three very different robotic platforms whose sensors yield radically different formats. The CART presentation details a method for combining this information to provide sensor input and environmental feedback that permits accurate and effective navigation.
The conference, October 1-4, 2006, is expected to attract more than 130 exhibitors in addition to several hundred researchers and professionals. Entitled “Photonics for Applications in Industry, Life Sciences, and Communications,” the event is sponsored by the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and is designed to explore breakthroughs in nanotechnology, biology, telecommunications, and environmental science.
April 5, 2006
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