BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180311T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180503T000000Z UID:1C7FB3DC-B4A8-4A95-819F-1C1A058CCDED DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20180402T183000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20180402T203000 DESCRIPTION:Based on our IEEE mission and vision of creating in-house IEEE member experts in Robotics and Automation\, our team had triggered "DaleKe n - IEEE ENCS Autonomous Navigational Mobile Humanoid Robot Project" next phase of humanoid project\, increasing Ken’s humanoid intelligence with mobility and further with autonomous navigational intelligence.\n\nDaleken has been designed with a set of simple and complex requirements\, with a long term vision of everyone from high school students\, professionals\, h obbyists and seniors can take part\, learn\, add contributions as hobbyist \, use and control the system in a controlled environment.\n\nOur team pri marily involving IEEE and guest members has done significant work during a fter-hours at Forge Initiave premises and has created an initial prototype version of physical Daleken with system components involving drive wheel mechanism\, basic mobility and vision system already integrated. Daniel Mc Donald and team will be providing the high level system architecture\, dem o and walkthrough of the project. Daniel is an impressive IEEE member who has significantly\, consistently contributed to IEEE humanoid project. Rod ney Radford will briefly talk about arduino control on the drive system an d Mahesh Balasubramaniam will briefly talk about the autonavigation relate d vision system architecture.\n\nOur IEEE Daleken\, humanoid projects are primarily non-profit learning platforms to foster the STEM activities amon g the professionals\, students\, senior hobbyists as well as future genera tions.\n\nIEEE R&A chapter strongly recommends every interested IEEE membe r to join and volunteer for DaleKen and humanoid project. We plan to have physical Daleken Robot during our presentation. We always encourage those interested people to volunteer for opportunities in continuous integration \, calibration\, optimization and autonomous navigation logic with a handf ul of sensors (Ultrasonics\, Lidar\, IR depth camera vision\, wheel encode rs).\n\nhttp://sites.ieee.org/encs/ra/\n\nhttp://sites.ieee.org/encs-human oid/ (sites are being updated for latest information)\n\nSpeaker Informati on\n\nDaniel McDonald\, an IEEE Senior Member since 2012 and is the Artifi cial Intelligence Team Lead for the ENCS DaleKen Project who cherishes con tinuous innovative contribution. Rodney Radford is our current IEEE ENCS s ection secretary and is a senior hobbyist. Mahesh Balasubramaniam is curre nt IEEE ENCS R&A chapter chair & a hobbyist.\n\nIEEE ENCS RA24 chapter app reciates the passion\, drive and contribution from the team for Daleken pr oject and wishes continued success and all the very best to entire team.\n \nAgenda: \n6:30-7:00pm Networking with pizza and soda\n\nThe times below are approximate and are given just as a guideline:\n\n7:00-7:10pm News and announcements\n\n7:10-7:50pm DaleKen - IEEE ENCS Autonomous Navigational Mobile Humanoid Robot Project by Daniel and team.\n\n7:50-8:00pm Brief Q/A from IEEE students\, hobbyists\, professionals and seniors\n\n8:00-8:30pm Show-n-Tell (if interested\, bring out your projects to show to other mem bers)\n\nRoom: 1007\, Bldg: Engineering Building 1 (EB1)\, 911 Partners Wa y\, Raleigh\, North Carolina\, United States\, 27606 LOCATION:Room: 1007\, Bldg: Engineering Building 1 (EB1)\, 911 Partners Way \, Raleigh\, North Carolina\, United States\, 27606 ORGANIZER:mbalasu@ncsu.edu SEQUENCE:6 SUMMARY:DaleKen - IEEE ENCS Autonomous Navigational Mobile Humanoid Robot P roject URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/170420 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Based on our IEEE mission and vision of cr eating in-house IEEE member experts in Robotics and Automation\, our team had triggered&nbsp\;<strong>"DaleKen - IEEE ENCS Autonomous Navigational M obile Humanoid Robot Project"</strong>&nbsp\;next phase of humanoid projec t\, increasing Ken&rsquo\;s humanoid intelligence with mobility and furthe r with autonomous navigational intelligence.</p>\n<p>Daleken has been desi gned with a set of simple and complex requirements\, with a long term visi on of everyone from high school students\, professionals\, hobbyists and s eniors can take part\, learn\, add contributions as hobbyist\, use and con trol the system in a controlled environment.</p>\n<p>Our team primarily in volving IEEE and guest members has done significant work during after-hour s at Forge Initiave premises and has created an initial prototype version of physical Daleken with system components involving drive wheel mechanism \, basic mobility and vision system already integrated. <strong>Daniel McD onald</strong> <strong>and team</strong> will be providing the high level system architecture\, demo and walkthrough of the project. Daniel is an im pressive IEEE member who has significantly\, consistently contributed to I EEE humanoid project. &nbsp\;<strong>Rodney Radford </strong>will briefly talk about arduino control on the drive system and <strong>Mahesh</strong> &nbsp\;<strong>Balasubramaniam</strong> will briefly talk about the autona vigation related vision system architecture.</p>\n<p>Our IEEE Daleken\, hu manoid projects are primarily non-profit learning platforms to foster the STEM activities among the professionals\, students\, senior hobbyists as w ell as future generations.</p>\n<p><strong>IEEE R&amp\;A chapter strongly recommends every interested IEEE member to join and volunteer for&nbsp\;</ strong><strong>DaleKen and humanoid project. We plan to have physical Dale ken Robot during our presentation.&nbsp\; W</strong>e always encourage tho se interested people to volunteer for opportunities in continuous integrat ion\, calibration\, optimization and autonomous navigation logic with a ha ndful of sensors (Ultrasonics\, Lidar\, IR depth camera vision\, wheel enc oders).</p>\n<p><a href="http://sites.ieee.org/encs/ra/">http://sites.ieee .org/encs/ra/</a>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><a href="http://sites.ieee.org/encs-human oid/">http://sites.ieee.org/encs-humanoid/</a>&nbsp\; (sites are being upd ated for latest information)</p>\n<p><strong><u>Speaker Information</u></s trong></p>\n<p><strong>Daniel McDonald\, </strong>an IEEE Senior Member si nce 2012 and is the Artificial Intelligence Team Lead for&nbsp\;the ENCS D aleKen Project who cherishes continuous innovative contribution.<strong> R odney Radford </strong>is our current IEEE ENCS section secretary and is a senior hobbyist.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;M<strong>ahesh Balasubramaniam</strong> is current IEEE ENCS R&amp\;A chapter chair &amp\; a hobbyist.</p>\n<p>IEEE E NCS RA24 chapter appreciates the passion\, drive and contribution from the team for Daleken project and wishes continued success and all the very be st to entire team.</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>6:30-7:00pm Networking with pizza and soda</p>\n<p>The times below are approximate and are given just as a guideline:</p>\n<p>7:00-7:10pm News and announcements</p>\n<p>7: 10-7:50pm <strong>DaleKen - IEEE ENCS Autonomous Navigational Mobile Human oid Robot Project by Daniel and team.</strong></p>\n<p>7:50-8:00pm Brief Q /A from IEEE students\, hobbyists\, professionals and seniors</p>\n<p>8:00 -8:30pm Show-n-Tell (if interested\, bring out your projects to show to ot her members)</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR