Tunisia - January 2008

Karen T. Sutherland

Professor of Computer Science

A.B. Augustana College, Illinois

Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Spring '08 Courses:
CSC 170 WEC

CSC 431 Day

Office Hours
(Held in Sverdrup 7):
T, Th : 16:45 - 18:00

Current Areas of Interest and Research:

Our primary research interest is in the area of computer vision with emphasis on computational models of biological vision systems and handling the errors which occur in visual localization. We are working on human localization techniques in virtual environments as compared to those used in real environments.

We are also investigating behaviors for multiple robots navigating in destroyed environments such as those found during search and rescue operations.

We are developing new courseware to introduce computer science concepts using the Sony AIBO robots in the introductory CS course.

Current Student Projects:

SSR-RC Research Project: Look here for progress on our work in behaviors for teams of robots navigating in destroyed environments. This work is sponsored by National Science Foundation grant EEC-0538740.
CCLI Research Project: Look here for progress on our work with the data glove and the AIBO robots. This work is sponsored by National Science Foundation grants CCLI-0309816 and CCLI-0511282.
Robotics Projects: Look here for the latest robotics class projects.

Selected Publications:

K. T. Sutherland, ``The Introductory CS Course - Exciting? Appealing? Motivating? '', Proceedings of the Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS 07), 2007.
Maria Gini, Jan Pearce, and Karen Sutherland, "Using the Sony AIBOs to increase diversity in Undergraduate CS programs", Intelligent Autonomous Systems 9 T. Arai et al. (Eds.), IOS Press, pp.1033--1040, 2006.
S. A. Kuhl and K. T. Sutherland, ``Self Localization in Virtual Environments using Virtual Angles'', Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Application in Industry (VRCAI2004), 2004.
K. T. Sutherland, ``Image Processing Programming Projects in an Upper Division Algorithms Course '', Proceedings of the Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS 04), 2004.
K. T. Sutherland, ``Undergraduate Robotics on a Shoestring'', IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol 15, #6, November/December 2000.
W. B. Thompson, C. M. Valiquette, B. H. Bennett, K. T. Sutherland, ``Geometric Reasoning under Uncertainty for Map-based Localization'', Spatial Cognition and Computation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
M. Stein and K. T. Sutherland, ``Sharing Resources Over the Internet for Robotics Education'', American Society for Engineering Education, Middle Atlantic Section Spring 1999 Regional Conference. Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ. April 17, 1999 (Best paper award)
D. L. Boley and K. T. Sutherland, ``A Rapidly Converging Recursive Method for Mobile Robot Localization'', International Journal of Robotics Research,October 1998.
K. T. Sutherland, ``When is More Not Better?'', Proceedings of the 1997 Measurement Science Conference, January 1997.
K. T. Sutherland and W. B. Thompson, "Localizing in Unstructured Environments: Dealing with the Errors", in IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation , December 1994.

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Department of Computer Science
Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55454

Office Phone: 612-330-1341
Lab Phone: 612-330-1710

FAX: 612-330-1649

Office: 203E Sverdrup Hall
Lab: 7 Sverdrup

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Last modified: 14 January 2008