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Howard H. Wang: Professional Student: Currently, doing a Ph.D. at Stanford University.

Research Interests: Paradigms for high-level robotic programming. Specifically studying ways to program underwater robots to do cool tasks.

Education: MSE, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Stanford University (1990); BSE, Aerospace and Computer Engineering; University of Michigan (1989)

Experience Ph.D. Research, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 1991-Current. Working with joint MBARI/ARL team to design and build underwater testbed vehicles for research. The SPOTTER vehicle demonstrated the increased performance of underwater object tracking by mixing high-speed pan/tilt control with lower-bandwidth vehicle control. On this vehicle, I was responsible for control design and operator interface development. On two versions of the OTTER vehicle, in addition to hands on experience with mechanical and electrical component construction and testing, I created a 3D graphical user interface and developed the task-level architecture for vehicle control. With OTTER, we successfully demonstrated tracking of arbitrary objects underwater, vehicle control using computer-generated graphics, visual station keeping, and automatic video mosaic creation. For my research, OTTER successfully searched for and autonomously retrieved objects from the bottom of a test tank. Engineering Intern, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Summer 1987 Summer intern with the Space Shuttle Structural Engineering, Access, and Payload group. Assisted and observed in the modification and repairs of shuttle Orbiter vehicles. Monitored daily progress of major modifications to payload bay of orbiters Columbia and Atlantis. Engineering Intern, NASA Lewis Research Center, Summer 1986 Internship with CWRU/NASA Aerospace R&D program. Modeled propellant flow through resistojets. Installed and tested a computer data-acquisition system for resistojet and arcjet testing.: Working with joint MBARI/ARL team to design and build underwater testbed vehicles for research. The SPOTTER vehicle demonstrated the increased performance of underwater object tracking by mixing high-speed pan/tilt control with lower-bandwidth vehicle control. On this vehicle, I was responsible for control design and operator interface development.
On two versions of the OTTER vehicle, in addition to hands on experience with mechanical and electrical component construction and testing, I created a 3D graphical user interface and developed the task-level architecture for vehicle control. With OTTER, we successfully demonstrated tracking of arbitrary objects underwater, vehicle control using computer-generated graphics, visual station keeping, and automatic video mosaic creation. For my research, OTTER successfully searched for and autonomously retrieved objects from the bottom of a test tank.
Engineering Intern, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Summer 1987 Summer intern with the Space Shuttle Structural Engineering, Access, and Payload group. Assisted and observed in the modification and repairs of shuttle Orbiter vehicles. Monitored daily progress of major modifications to payload bay of orbiters Columbia and Atlantis. Engineering Intern, NASA Lewis Research Center, Summer 1986 Internship with CWRU/NASA Aerospace R&D program. Modeled propellant flow through resistojets. Installed and tested a computer data-acquisition system for resistojet and arcjet testing.: Summer intern with the Space Shuttle Structural Engineering, Access, and Payload group. Assisted and observed in the modification and repairs of shuttle Orbiter vehicles. Monitored daily progress of major modifications to payload bay of orbiters Columbia and Atlantis.
Engineering Intern, NASA Lewis Research Center, Summer 1986 Internship with CWRU/NASA Aerospace R&D program. Modeled propellant flow through resistojets. Installed and tested a computer data-acquisition system for resistojet and arcjet testing.: Internship with CWRU/NASA Aerospace R&D program. Modeled propellant flow through resistojets. Installed and tested a computer data-acquisition system for resistojet and arcjet testing.

Publications "Experiments in Automatic Retrieval of Underwater Objects by an AUV," In Proceedings of Oceans '95 MTS/IEEE, October, 1995. "OTTER: A Testbed Submersible for Robotics Research," In Proceedings of ANS6th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, February, 1995. Automatic Visual Station Keeping of an Underwater Robot. In Proceedings of IEEE Oceans 94 Osates, September, 1994. "Task-Based Control Architecture for an Untethered, Unmanned Submersible," In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Unmanned, Untethered Submersible Technologies, September, 1993. "Combined Camera and Vehicle Tracking of Underwater Objects," In Proceedings of Intervention/ROV'92, June, 1992.

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