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Dr. Herman Herman

at Carnegie Mellon Univ

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Proceedings Article | 29 April 2010 Paper

Modular countermine payload for small robots

Herman Herman, Doug Few, Roelof Versteeg, Jean-Sebastien Valois, Jeff McMahill, Michael Licitra, Edward Henciak

Proceedings Volume 7664, 76641D (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.852630

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Robots, Robotics, Control systems, Field programmable gate arrays, LIDAR, Electronics, Computer programming, Software development, Mining

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Proceedings Article | 29 April 2010 Paper

Mine detection performance comparison between manual sweeping and tele-operated robotic system

Herman Herman, Todd Higgins, Olga Falmier, Jean-Sebastien Valois, Jeff McMahill

Proceedings Volume 7664, 766419 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.852624

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Mining, Land mines, General packet radio service, Robotics, Human-machine interfaces, Global Positioning System, Robotic systems, Electromagnetic coupling, Automatic target recognition

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Proceedings Article | 29 April 2010 Paper

Semi autonomous mine detection system

Doug Few, Roelof Versteeg, Herman Herman

Proceedings Volume 7664, 76641A (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.852639

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Robotics, Land mines, Mining, Robotic systems, Control systems, Navigation systems, Computing systems, Data processing, Data communications

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Proceedings Article | 16 April 2008 Paper

Remote operation of the Black Knight unmanned ground combat vehicle

Jean-Sebastien Valois, Herman Herman, John Bares, David Rice

Proceedings Volume 6962, 69621A (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.782109

KEYWORDS: Unmanned vehicles, Sensors, Unmanned systems, Global Positioning System, Target acquisition, Safety, Cameras, Vehicle control, Video

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Proceedings Article | 21 September 2004 Paper

Portable robotic platform for handheld landmine detection system

Herman Herman, Jeffrey McMahill

Proceedings Volume 5415, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.544882

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Land mines, Robotics, Human-machine interfaces, Algorithm development, Mining, Receivers, Robotic systems, Detection and tracking algorithms, Transmitters

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Proceedings Article | 18 October 2001 Paper

Enhanced operator interface for hand-held landmine detector

Herman Herman, Jeffrey McMahill, George Kantor

Proceedings Volume 4394, (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.445412

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Mining, Land mines, Human-machine interfaces, Video, Metals, Sensor performance, Radar, Detector development, Sensor fusion

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As landmines get harder to detect, the complexity of landmine detectors has also been increasing. To increase the probability of detection and decrease the false alarm rate of low metallic landmines, many detectors employ multiple sensing modalities, which include radar and metal detector. Unfortunately, the operator interface for these new detectors stays pretty much the same as for the older detectors. Although the amount of information that the new detectors acquire has increased significantly, the interface has been limited to a simple audio interface. We are currently developing a hybrid audiovisual interface for enhancing the overall performance of the detector. The hybrid audiovisual interface combines the simplicity of the audio output with the rich spatial content of the video display. It is designed to optimally present the output of the detector and also to give the proper feedback to the operator. Instead of presenting all the data to the operator simultaneously, the interface allows the operator to access the information as needed. This capability is critical to avoid information overload, which can significantly reduce the performance of the operator. The audio is used as the primary notification signal, while the video is used for further feedback, discrimination, localization and sensor fusion. The idea is to let the operator gets the feedback that he needs and enable him to look at the data in the most efficient way. We are also looking at a hybrid man-machine detection system which utilizes precise sweeping by the machine and powerful human cognitive ability. In such a hybrid system, the operator is free to concentrate on discriminant task, such as manually fusing the output of the different sensing modalities, instead of worrying about the proper sweep technique. In developing this concept, we have been using the virtual mien lane to validate some of these concepts. We obtained some very encouraging results form our preliminary test. It clearly shows that with the proper feedback, the performance of the operator can be improved significantly in a very short time.

Proceedings Article | 22 August 2000 Paper

Training and performance assessment of land mine detector operator using motion tracking and virtual mine lane

Herman Herman, Jeffrey McMahill, George Kantor

Proceedings Volume 4038, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.396233

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Mining, Land mines, Cameras, 3D modeling, Target detection, 3D acquisition, Human-machine interfaces, Video, Head

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Proceedings Article | 2 August 1999 Paper

Human-in-the loop issues for demining

Herman Herman, Diego Iglesias

Proceedings Volume 3710, (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.357101

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Image processing, Land mines, Target detection, Cameras, Video, Metals, Signal processing, Sensor performance, 3D image processing

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Proceedings Article | 22 June 1994 Paper

Active surface/subsurface perception for autonomous excavation

Herman Herman, Anthony Stentz

Proceedings Volume 2233, (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.179035

KEYWORDS: Antennas, General packet radio service, Reflection, Image segmentation, Error analysis, Sensors, Sensing systems, Robotics, Wave propagation, Image processing

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