Welcome to the
Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory
Wolfgang Fink, Ph.D., founded the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory in 2003 at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, USA. Since October 2009 the Laboratory has expanded to the University of Arizona in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering as well as Biomedical Engineering.
The Laboratory is devoted to fundamental research in areas such as:
- Astrobiology,
- Autonomy,
- Biomedicine,
- Computational Field Geology,
- Evolutionary Computation,
- Robotics;
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Breaking News
- NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory feature the Tier-Scalable Reconnaissance paradigm developed by Dr. Wolfgang Fink, Caltech Visting Scientist Mark Tarbell, and colleagues at the USGS and University of Arizona.
- Dr. Wolfgang Fink and Caltech Visting Scientist Mark Tarbell of the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory at Caltech have created a robot surrogate for blind persons for the purpose of testing implanted visual prostheses.
- Dr. Wolfgang Fink and Caltech Visiting Scientist Mark Tarbell of the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory at Caltech have received one of R&D Magazine's 2009 R&D 100 Awards. The prize recognizes significant new technologies that exemplify the most innovative ideas of the previous year.
- Dr. Wolfgang Fink and Caltech Visiting Scientist Mark Tarbell of the Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory at Caltech are featured in the 2009 Newsletter of the Department of Energy (DOE) funded Artificial Retina project. The specific project description is on page 10 of the newsletter.
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