ERNEST L. HALL, Ph.D, P.E.,
CME
TITLE: Director, Center for Robotics Research
Paul E. Geier Professor of Robotics
ADDRESS: Center for Robotics Research
Department of Mechanical, Industrial
and Nuclear Engineering
University of Cincinnati
Mail Location 72
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0072
Phone: (513) 556-2730
FAX: (513) 556-3390
Email: Ernie.Hall@uc.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1971 University of Missouri
M.S. 1966 University of Missouri
B.S.E.E. 1965 University of Missouri
U.S. Marine Corps, 1958-1967
Registered Professional Engineer
Certified Manufacturing Engineer
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (Fellow)
International Society of Optical Engineering (Fellow)
Society of Mfg. Engineers (Fellow)
Institute of Industrial Engineers (Senior Member)
Sigma Xi
Tau Beta Pi
Eta Kappa Nu
Advisory Board for Robotics Internation/SME
Association for Computing Machinery
Biomedical Computer Committee of the IEEE Computing Society
INTEREST AREAS
Industrial Robotics
Intelligent Robots and Sensor Systems
Computer Image Processing and Recognition
Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Bioengineering, Medical Imaging
Autonomous vehicles, mobile robotics
EXPERIENCE
1983-Present University of Cincinnati
Paul E. Geier Chair Professor of Robotics
Director of the Center for Robotics Research
1990-1995 University of Cincinnati, Co-Director
Multi-University Material Handling Research Center
1976-1983 University of Tennessee, IBM Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science
1973-1976 University of Southern California, Assistant Professor
of Electrical Engineering and Radiology
1972-1973 Yale University, Assistant Professor of Radiology
1971-1972 University of Missouri, Assistant Professor of Electrical
Engineering, Bioengineering and Radiology
1968-1971 University of Missouri, Research Associate
1967-1968 Emerson Electric Company, Senior Design Engineer
1958-1967 United States Marine Corps, Radar Officer
1985-Present Vice President, International Computer Robotics Corporation
1983-Present Editorial Board, ournal of Robotics Systems
1983-1985 Chairman, Advisory Committee, Center for Engineering Systems
Advanced Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1980-1987 Board Member, Computer Recognition Corp., Knoxville, TN
1971-Present Served in consulting capacity with industrial and medical
groups
Including the following:
General Electric Company
NIOSH
FERMCO
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Timken Company
Loma Linda Medical Center
HDR, Inc.
Xerox Corp.
Nichols Research Corp.
Emerson Electric Co.
Ortex, Inc.
General Instruments, Inc.
Perkin Elmer Corp.
Procter & Gamble Co.
Kroger Company
Chiquitta Brands
James River Company
Tennant Company
Strathmore's Who's Who 1997
Who's Who in America 1989
SME MVA Certification by Stature Award 1988
SPIE Fellow Award 1986
IEEE Fellow Award 1985
IEEE Centennial Medal 1984
Who's Who in Technology Today
American Men and Women of Sciences
Who's Who in the South and Southeast
Brooks Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching and
Distinction in Engineering Practice, Univ. of Tennessee, 1982.
IBM Professor and Member of Engineering Academy, 1982.
Tennessee Tomorrow Award, University of Tennessee, 1980.
Conference Co-chairman, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision, SPIE,
1984-96.
Local Arrangement Chairman, International IEEE Robotics and Automation
Conference, May, 1990, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Session Chairman, 9th International Conference on Production Research
and Exhibition on Intelligent Robotics, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 1987.
Session Chairman, Intelligent Robots, MAECON '84, St. Louis, MO, Oct.
1984.
Session Chairman, Robot Vision and Recognition, ASME Computers in
Engineering Conf., Las Vegas, NV, Aug. 1984.
Session Chairman for Off-Line Simulation and Programming of Automated
Systems, Robotics and Flexible Automation Conf. of the Technical Society
of Toledo, OH, Feb. 1984.
Chairman, IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing,
1982.
Session Chairman for Pattern Recognition, IEEE SOUTHEASTCON, 1979.
Session Chairman for Image Processing, IEEE SOUTHEASTCON, 1978.
Session Chairman for Computer Graphics, Spring National DECUS Symposium,
1979.
Co-Chairman, SPIE Symposium on Digital Processing of Aerial Images,
Huntsville, Alabama, May 1979.
Organizer and Program Chairman, UMC Computer Image Processing and
Recognition Symposium, August 1972.
Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 1972.
Dr. Hall has been principal or co-principal investigator on the
following grants and contracts:
FERMCO-Mobile Robot Evaluations, 12/31/96 $39,439
OBR/MHRC and Matching Funds 7/01/91-09/30/95 $ 300,000
Motoman 1/15/95-06/30/95 $20,000
MHRC/IAMS/James River 1/29/92-09/30/93 $80,000
MHRC/IAMS/Chiquita 4/01/91-06/30/93 $120,000
MHRC/IAMS/Kroger 7/01/91-06/30/93 $80,000
IAMS/EXxpert System (A174) 7/01/92-09/30/92 $3,943
IAMS/Material Handling Lab 4/01/90-12/31/90 $51,952
IAMS/P&G SKU 9/1/90-03/31/92 $45,158
AIR FORCE - RES. & DEV. LAB 1/02/92-01/01/93 $20,000
FERMCO-Self Guided Vehicles 6/01/93-09/30/93 $80,000
WESTINGHOUSE - C976 4/27/92-07/03/92 $20,000
WEMCO - A112 6/15/92-09/15/92 $24,483
NSF - UNDERGRAD SUPPLEMENT 7/01/91-06/30/92 $ 3,998
NSF - Omnidirectional Vision Research 3/15/93-01/15/94, $50,000
NSF - MHRC 7/01/91-06/30/93 $103,975
NSF - CAPP Planning Grant $ 75,000
Expert Color Vision, ICRC and Ohio Department of Development, 1988-89, $50,000.
Three Dimensional Measurements for Robot Vision, National Science
Foundation, 1987-90, $232,444.
Equipment Grant for Robot Vision, National Science Foundation, 1988-90,
$56,016.
Vision Servo Guidance for an Automatic Cleaning Machine, Tennant
Company, 1986-87, $65,000.
Robotics Laboratory Development, General Electric Foundation, 1986-90, $100,000.
Palletizing of Mixed Size and Weight Parcels, Institute of Advanced
Manufacturing Sciences, 1986-87, $103,000.
Computer Aided Design, Procter & Gamble, 1986-87, $67,000.
Remote Articulated Manipulator with Vision and Tactile Sensing, Central
State University, NASA, 1986-87, $10,000.
Automatic Pit Carb Basket Loading, State of Ohio, Edison Program, Timken
Corporation, 1985-86.
Turbine Disk Edge Deburring Using a General Electric P50 Robot, General
Electric Company, 1985-86.
Robot Intelligence and Vision, DoD Research Equipment Grant, 1984-86, $167,000.
Development of a Mobile Robotic Lawn Mower, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, 1982-83, $77,000.
Complex Surface Recognition for Robot Vision, National Science
Foundation, 1980, $131,000
Scene Content Analysis, Phase III, U.S. Air Force, Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, 1976-78, $258,000.
Scene Content Analysis, Phase II, U.S. Air Force, 1975-76, $307,000.
Scene Content Analysis, Phase I, U.S. Air Force, 1975-76, $95,000
Automatic Processing of Chest X-Rays, NIOSH, 1973-76, $320,000.
U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science Program, National Science Foundation,
1976-77, $4,900.
Pulmonary Measurements for Early Detection of Hypertension, NHLI, 1975, $62,000.
Optical Digital Techniques for Image Processing, National Science
Foundation, 1972-73, $103,000.
TEXTBOOKS:
E. L. Hall and B. C. Hall, Robotics: A User Friendly Introduction, New
York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985.
E. L. Hall, Computer Image Processing and Recognition, New York:
Academic Press, 1979.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Four papers in Selected SPIE Papers on CD-ROM, Automatic Target
Recognition, Firooz Sadjadi, Editor, 2000.
E. L. Hall, "Fundamental Principles of Robot Vision," Handbook of
Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Academic Press, New York,
1994, pp. 543-575.
"Algorithms and Architectures for Machine Vision," in Progress in
Material Handling and Logistics," J. A. White and I. W. Pence, Eds.,
Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989, pp. 59-74 (with J. J. Roning).
"Vision Sensing Techniques," in Progress in Astronautics and
Aeronautics, E. Heer and H. Lum, Eds., AIAA, 1989.
"Three Dimensional Robot Vision Techniques," Chapter IX, Recent Advances
in Robotics, G. Bene and S. Hackwood, Eds. New York: Wiley, 1985, pp.
263-312 (with C. A. McPherson).
"Axon Counting Techniques for Nerve Regeneration," in Management of
eripheral Nerve Problems, Drs. Omer and Spinner, Eds. Philadelphia: W.
B. Sanders Co., 1977 (with G. K. Frykman, M.D. and V. E. Wood, M.D.).
"Computed Tomography and Its Application to Nuclear Medicine Imaging,"
in urrent Concepts in Radiology, Vol. 3, Chapter 3, T. Pochman, Ed. St.
Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1977 (with G. C. Huth).
"Computer Multiplication and Division Using Binary Logarithms for
Digital Filtering Applications," in igital Signal Processing, A. C.
Salazar, Ed., IEEE Press, 1977 (with D. D. Lynch and S. J. Dwyer).
Five papers included in Tutorial and Selected Papers in Digital Signal
Processing, H. C. Andrews, Ed. IEEE Press, 1978.
Collaborative work with artist S. Pinkel on computer art in Innovative
Printmaking, T. Newman. New York: Crown Publishers, 1977.
Papers are listed under the Papers selection
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