Abstract
Current study results on Robotics-Ro botics and Automation have been published. According to news originating from Ma dison, Wisconsin, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "We investigate met hods for determining if a planar surface contains geometric deviations (e.g., pr otrusions, objects, divots, or cliffs) using only an instantaneous measurement f rom a miniature optical time-of-flight sensor. The key to our method is to utili ze the entirety of information encoded in raw time-of-flight data captured by of f-the-shelf distance sensors." Financial supporters for this research include Los Alamos National Laboratory, U nited States Department of Energy (DOE), NSF-Office of the Director (OD), Nati onal Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research.