IEEE ENCS Humanoid Robot Project
IEEE ENCS Humanoid Robot Project - Daniel McDonald
Based on our IEEE mission and vision of creating in-house IEEE member experts in Robotics and Automation, Grayson's efforts had triggered "IEEE ENCS Humanoid Robot Project".
Daniel McDonald an impressive IEEE member who has significantly contributed from our own impressive IEEE humanoid project, will be providing a demo and walk through of the current humanoid system design detail, his future aspirations. Our IEEE humanoid project is primarily a non-profit learning platform to foster the STEM activities among the senior hobbyists as well as future generations. Daniel with other folks contribution and efforts to the project are highly appreciable.
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This will be followed by a brief upto 15 mins Q&A or relevant discussions among IEEE members, hobbyists and professionals.
In fact, this activity can also be done in more than one iteration, on individual areas of the system design. Also this is an initiative, where our IEEE members can add their support to Daniel in future.
IEEE RA24 chapter strongly recommends every interested IEEE member to join and assist Daniel McDonald's efforts in the IEEE humanoid project. Currently there are weekly meetings every wednesday at Forge Headquarters at 3300 Green Level West Rd, Cary between 6:30pm to 8:30pm (http://theforgeinitiative.org).
Per IEEE RA24 current chair, Forge initiative is clearly matching his thought process and requirements for a very organized makerspace work area for IEEE member hobbyists, seniors, professionals and future generation kids. This is where our current IEEE humanoid project is being implemented. This way we will practically kickstart our open-source based robotics expertise development initiative, fostering continuous learning and contribution on R&A activities.
Further if time permits, in every future RA24 session Mahesh will briefly walkthrough interface/design details on specific selective interesting or useful robotics and humanoid opensource resource architectures.
Speaker Information
Daniel McDonald, an IEEE Senior Member since 2013 and is the Artificial Intelligence Team Lead for the ENCS Humanoid Robotics Project. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Mathematics from Asbury University and the Master of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky. He is interested in collaborating with other engineers on a challenging robotics project where he can pursue solutions to the problem of how to build a thinking machine.
Daniel’s contributions to the KEN v1 humanoid include the software architecture, the design of the boot node, implementation and enhancement of many of the other software nodes, and the face learning and recognition algorithm. Daniel currently leads the development of the KEN v2 robot.
IEEE ENCS RA24 chapter appreciates the passion, drive and contribution from Daniel towards the project and wishes continued success and all the very best to his career & life.
Date and Time
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- Date: 07 Aug 2017
- Time: 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
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- 3300 Green Level West Rd
- Cary, North Carolina
- United States 27519
- Building: Forge Initiative Presentation Room
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Mahesh Balasubramaniam
mbalasu@ncsu.edu
- Starts 05 July 2017 04:00 PM
- Ends 07 August 2017 06:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-05:00) US/Eastern
- No Admission Charge
Agenda
6:20-7:00pm Networking with pizza and soda
The times below are approximate and are given just as a guideline:
7:00-7:15pm IEEE ENCS RA24 news and announcements.
7:15-7:50pm Daniel McDonald will provide a casual demo and walk through of the current humanoid system design detail, his future aspirations. Current IEEE humanoid project is a baby of Daniel McDonald and few other inspiring IEEE members thought process.
7:50-8:00pm Brief Q/A from IEEE member hobbyists and professionals.
8:00-8:10pm Mahesh will briefly walkthrough about interface/design details on specific selective interesting or useful robotics and humanoid opensource resource architectures.
8:10-9:00pm Forge Initiative Open house, walkthrough of makerspace resources for school kids, professionals and seniors.