Sensing and Modeling Research Laboratory
        ( founded 1987 )
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University of Ottawa
School of Information Technology and Engineering
800 King Edward  - Rooms 3010 and 3035
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA  K1N 6N5

Tel: +1-613-562-5800  ext. 2197 (room 3010), or ext. 2202 (room 3035),

   * Research Interests:

• Intelligent Sensor Agents
• Robot Sensing, Vision, and Perception
• Sensing, Modelling, and Simulation for Environmental Engineering
• Human-Computer Interfaces
• Digital  Circuit Design and Testing
• Neural Networks
• Fuzzy Control

•   Rami Abielmona ,  Ph.D. student in the SMRLab,  has received Tomorrow's Technology Leadership Award at the CITO's Knowledge Network Conference   in Ottawa on October 24th, 2002.

• Intelligent Robotic Sensor Agents   (2001/2004, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada,  NSERC )
• Distributed Virtual Instrumentation (2001/2004, funded by NSERC)
• Model of Mappings between User Input and System Responses, (2002/2003, funded by Industry Canada,  Communications Research Centre - CRC )
• System on Chip Rapid Prototyping, (2002, funded by CMC).
• iSENSE:  Intelligent Sensor Environment for Pervasive Computing Real-Time Applications , (2000/2002, funded by Communications and Information Technology Ontario - CITO )
• Innovation and Learning:  Building Collaborative Governance , (2000/2002, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council , SSHRC )

Supported by  grants and contracts from the Canadian Space Agency , NSERC , CRC , TRIO/CITO , MRCO/MMO , NORTEL , MITEL   and STENTOR,  the SMRLab conducted  research on  tactile sensors, haptic perception, human-computer interfaces for telepresence, Neural Network (NN) hardware architectures,  structured light,  absolute position  recovery  using pseudorandom encoding, agent-based control of multi-robot systems,  fuzzy control of mobile robots, vision & haptic telepresence control of mobile robots, multi-sensor fusion, NN  modelling of  3D electromagnetic fields, virtual prototyping environments and 3D avatars.

Prof. Petriu’s contributions are frequently quoted as references in many international journal papers.  Some of these contributions are also quoted in books and patents as follows:
* Contributions in pseudorandom encoding and its applications to position recovery are quoted in specialty books as follows:
      -  R. Pallas-Areny and J.G. Webster, Sensors and Signal Conditioning, (Ch. 8.1), John Wiley & Sons,Inc., New York, 1991.
      - H.R. Everett, Sensors for Mobile Robots: Theory and Application, (Ch. 11.2), A.K. Peters, Ltd, Wellesley, MA, 1995
      - J. G. Webster (Editor-in-Chief), The Measurement, Instrumentation and Sensors Handbook, (Ch. 6.8),
        CRC Press and IEEE Press, 1999.
  They are also quoted in patents as:
      - P. Geisler, Distance or position detecting device, US Patent 5,287,630, assigned toHottinger Baldwin Messtechnik GmbH,
        Germany, February1994.
      - J. Burns and S.A. Loyd, Position-sensing apparatus, US Patent 5,442,147, assigned to Hewlett-Packard Co., USA,
         August 1995.
      - D. Avitzour, Mobile robot location determination employing error-correcting distributed landmarks, US Patent 5,525,883,
         assigned to Sara Avitzour, USA,  June1996.
      - J. Burns and S.A. Loyd, Initial track recovery in position-sensing systems that use windowing patterns, US Patent 5,675,129,
         assigned to Hewlett-Packard Co., USA, October1997.
* Contributions in asynchronous arbiter circuits are quoted in patents as:
     - A. Kanuma, Priority determination circuit, US Patent 4,546,450, assigned to Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan,
        October 1985.

• Wireless Intelligent Sensor Network for Environment Monitoring (.pdf) =>  Best Student Presentation Award, CITO 2002 Knowledge Network Conference Ottawa, ON, Oct. 24, 2002

• Images illustrating Robotic Sensing & Perception projects (.pdf)

•   Virtual Reality Prototypes for Human Interaction, Training and e-Commerce (Video)  from a High-Tech TV, HTTV, CTV Broadcast filmed at MCRLab/SMRLab.

• Distributed Collaborative Environments Research Laboratory ( DISCOVER Lab ), University of Ottawa
• Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab ), University of Ottawa
• Networked Media Laboratory , Network Systems, Communications Research Centre , Ottawa, ON, Canada
• XYZ RGB Company, Ottawa, ON, Canda
• Intelligent Sensor, Measurement, and Control Lab , The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Intelligent Autonomous Systems ( IAS ), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS ), Örebro University, Sweden

Last modified:   August  20^th,  2002