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• Dr. Cang Ye received research grant from NASA

NASA awarded $750,000 to Dr. Cang Ye's research team to investigate robot navigation methods based on a Flash LIDAR camera. 

• Dr. Cang Ye received research grant from the National Science Foundation

  The National Science Foundation awarded $320,389 research grant to Dr. Cang Ye to develop computer vision methods that may enable portable blind navigational devices to guide people with visual impairment.

• Dr. Cang Ye and his students won best paper award at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation. 

  A paper co-author by Chris Robinson, GuruPrasad M. Hegde, Cang Ye, Ashley Stroupe, and Edward Tunstel won the Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics in 2010 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation. The paper was entitled “Computer Vision Based Wheel Sinkage Detection for Robotic Lunar Exploration Task.”

News About Us

• The "Smart" Cane was featured as "Today's Exclusive" on the NSF's online publication Science360

• Interview with Allan Russell at Insight Radio about the "Smart" Cane 

• More news about the "Smart" Cane

• Our work on wheel sinkage detection won best paper ward at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation. Read more...

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