The IASTED International Conference on
Robotics and Applications
RA 2006
August 14 – 16, 2006
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Exploring the New Frontier: Robots, Humans, and Human-Robot Teams in Space
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Biography of the Keynote Speaker
Dr. Paul S. Schenker is Manager of the Robotics Space Exploration Technology Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. His responsibilities encompass the strategic development of technical capabilities for future NASA robotic and human-robotic missions. His prior assignments at JPL include management of JPL's mobility/robotics line organization of about 100 people, and supervising two related robotics groups. His research has included topics in robotic perception, robot control architectures, telerobotics and teleoperation, multi-sensor fusion, and most recently, multi-robot cooperation, areas to which he has contributed about 140 peer review publications as well as a number of recent keynote and plenary technical conference presentations. He has led the development of robotic systems that include the Field Integrated Design & Operations Rover (FIDO), Planetary Dexterous Manipulator (MarsArm, microArm), Robot Assisted Microsurgery System (RAMS), Robotic Work Crew (RWC), and All Terrain Explorer (ATE/Cliff-bot), with resulting technology contributions to NASA missions including the currently operative Mars Exploration Rovers (MER). Dr. Schenker is active in the AAAI, IEEE, OSA, and SPIE. He has served as an elected board member and was President of SPIE in 1999, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences/United States Advisory Committee to the International Commission for Optics.
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