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See our articles about the Cyborg Astrobiologist's geological field-work.

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Current and Recent Work:

Despite my avowed love for Bielefeld(ers) and building robots for Earth, I have moved to Chicago, and I am now a research scientist at the University of Chicago in the Department of Geophysical Sciences. After Bielefeld, I worked in Madrid, building Cyborg vision systems for exploring the prairies, mountains, and deserts of the Earth, searching for interesting geological and biological features. See the Cyborg Astrobiologist's first results at a geological site (open-access preprint version) with such an interest-map exploration system. These vision systems will later be transplanted onto crawling, flying, digging and swimming robots to goto Mars and Jupiter's possibly-watery moon, Europa, in order to search for other-worldly life.

In Bielefeld, I worked on building better vision systems for robots, with the Neuroinformatics group, led by Helge Ritter. Check out this picture of our efforts to train robots to cooperate with humans to build towers and bridges.

Work-Related Links:

My Google/Scholar Web Hits, with some citation analysis

My Refereed Journal Articles at the Web of Knowledge , with some citation analysis

My http://arxiv.org Web E-Prints, with some citation analysis

History of Citations amd Downloads of my http://arxiv.org Web E-Prints

My ADS (NASA Astrophysics Data System) papers, with some citation analysis

My Entries in the Computer Science Bibliography Collection

Results From Recent Workgroups (after 2001):

"The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Scouting Red Beds for Uncommon Features with Geological Significance", International Journal of Astrobiology, vol. 4, issue 2, pp. 101-113 (2005). open access preprint version

"Cyborg Astrobiologist", for the Associated Press Television Network, September 2005.

"AI developed for Mars explorers" in BBConline, June 2005.

"Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ) about the Cyborg Astrobiologist, interview with David Geer, May 2005.

"Ordenadores y algoritmos de visión: Un cibergeólogo para la exploración de Marte", in the Spanish Science Magazine, Investigacion y Ciencia, July 2005.

"Un cibergeólogo para la exploración de Marte:
Don AstrobioQuijote, the Cyborg Astrobiologist, Wanders through Spain:
Results from Geological Field Missions in Rivas Vaciamadrid and Riba de Santiuste",
Colloquium at the Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Tres Cantos, Madrid, March 2005.

"The Cyborg Astrobiologist: First Field Experience", International Journal of Astrobiology, vol. 3, issue 3, pp. 189-207 (2004).open-access preprint version

"Rover data makes return a must", in BBConline, December 2004.

"Cyborg geologist explores Spain", in Nature News Online, November 2004.

Vasco da Gama: In Situ Mars Explorer, Presentation (with notes) by "In Situ: Follow the Carbon" student working group, The Planet Mars Astrobiology Summer School, U. International Menendez Pelaya, Santander, Spain (July 2004).

"AI to help Martian exploration" in BBConline, February 2004.

Field Geology with a Wearable Computer: First Results of the Cyborg Astrobiologist System, ICINCO'2005 (International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics), Barcelona, Spain (September 2005).

Cyborg Systems as Platforms for Computer-Vision Algorithm-Development for Astrobiology, project summary and publications (2002- ).

Neural Architectures for Robot Intelligence, Reviews in the Neurosciences (2003)

Multi-Modal Human-Machine Communication for Instructing Robot Grasping Tasks , International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2002)

Results From Previous Workgroups (my contributions were largely before 2001):

Efficient Simulation of Adaptive Optics Technologies for the Euro50 Telescope, Worskhop on Extremely Large Telescopes, Backaskog Castle, Sweden, Emerging Optoelectronic Applications. (2004).

Adaptive Optics Nulling Interferometric Constraints on the Mid-Infrared Exozodiacal Dust Emission around Vega, Astrophysical Journal Letters (2004)

Astronomers Get Ultrasharp Images With Large Telescope in Arizona, February 2003.

Astronomers Get Ultrasharp Images (more pics), February 2003.

A Near-Infrared Wide-Field Proper Motion Search for Brown Dwarfs, Astronomical Journal (2002)

Threshold Disorder as a Source of  Diverse and Complex Behavior in Random Nets, Neural Networks (2002)

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