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NSF MRI: Acquisition of a Motion Capture System to Facilitate Multidisciplinary Research Efforts and Enhance Undergraduate Research Training
(2013)
Abstract
This proposal supports the acquisition of a high-accuracy, three-dimensional motion capture
system which will be used to enable collaborative research projects and enhance undergraduate
research training and outreach efforts at Kettering University (Flint, MI). The instrument
will be used by junior faculty in the Industrial and Manufacturing, Electrical and Computer
Engineering, and Computer Science Departments and will expand existing research capacity in
the overlapping areas of ergonomics and human factors, haptics, robotics, and computer science.
Specifically, the instrumentation will enable proposed research projects aiming to evaluate
human productivity and comfort when interacting with computing technologies, to develop new
gestural, haptic, and virtual computer interfaces, to enhance autonomous robot localization
and targeting technologies, and to reduce climbing-related falls. Since Kettering University
is a non-PhD granting STEM and business institution, these research projects will be performed
by primarily by undergraduate and Masters engineering students; many as Thesis projects.
Undergraduate courses and youth outreach programs will also be enhanced by developing laboratory
modules utilizing this state-of-the-art equipment to showcase its exciting research potential.
Currently, no research-grade motion capture system is available to students or researchers
at Kettering University or at other academic institutions in mid-east Michigan. Acquisition
of this instrumentation will allow Kettering University to continue to attract and develop
faculty research potential and strengthen future research proposals.
Disciplines
Publication Date
February 21, 2013
Citation Information
Justin Young, Terri Lynch-Caris, Girma Tewolde, Giuseppe Turini, et al.. "NSF MRI: Acquisition of a Motion Capture System to Facilitate Multidisciplinary Research Efforts and Enhance Undergraduate Research Training" (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/giuseppe-turini/21/