For the past few years Yasamin Mostofi, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSB and her team have been busy realizing the dream of X-ray vision.by enabling robots to see objects and humans behind thick walls through the use of radio frequency signals. The project page is here. Dr Mostofi received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2012.
Yasamin Mostofi
Mobile computing now enables both seeing and hearing from unusual places.Entrepreneurs: What a great application for a Tegra K1!
Click image to read how simply being able to see a potato chop bag in another room allows one to hear a conversation in that room.
For more information:
- A. Gonzalez-Ruiz, A Ghaffarkhah, and Y. Mostofi, “An Integrated Framework for Obstacle Mapping with See-Through Capabilities using Laser and Wireless Channel Measurements,” to appear, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2014.[pdf]
- A. Gonzalez-Ruiz and Y. Mostofi, “Cooperative Robotic Structure Mapping Using Wireless Measurements – A Comparison of Random and Coordinated Sampling Patterns,” IEEE Sensors Journal, volume 13, issue 7, April 2013.[pdf]
- Y. Mostofi, “Cooperative Wireless-Based Obstacle/Object Mapping and See-Through Capabilities in Robotic Networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Jan. 2012.[pdf]
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