New appointment

Dear all,

I have just been appointment as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Digital Signal and Image Processing (ADSIP) directed by Professor Lik Kwan Shark.
This Center webpage is available here: http://technology.uclan.ac.uk/adsip/index.htm
This center is part of the Department of Design and Technology et the University of Central Lancashire. We are located on Preston's campus. Have a peek into the Uni's webpage: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/

On a two year contract, I shall participate to the elaboration of the new PACCAR Robotics and Vision Laboratory headed by Dr Bogdan Matuszewski (lecturer). Obviously, from the name, you can guess that the laboratory is funded by the PACCAR Trucks company. The Laboratory webspage shall soon appear at this location: http://technology.uclan.ac.uk/adsip/computer_vision_robotics.htm

Lead by professor Lik-Kwan Shark, the ADSIP has concentrated its research activity mainly on three domains where they have acquired a strong reputation:
 - Non-destructive testing sponsored by BAE Systems.
- Signal and image processing sponsored by Texas Instruments.
- 3D visualisation with EON Reality. It is now moving towards robotics research.

PACCAR's is one of the leading truck manufacturer in the world with very famous brand names such as Leyland Trucks in the UK, DAF in Europe and Kenworth in America. They even have one facility nearby in Leyland where they assemble the Foden and DAF trucks and also one in my hometown Montreal where they build the Kenworth. http://www.paccar.com/

My new endeavours shall take me into the research of new solutions to solve vision-based robotics in complex and flexible industrial environments. I shall also investigate mobile robots taking part in industrial tasks.

Luc