*** See the note below about PREREGISTERING for this meeting *** Boston Chapter, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Meeting Tuesday, 14 November, 2000 Informal Discussion: 6:00 PM; Program: 6:30 PM InterSense 73 Second Ave., Burlington, MA HOW TO KNOW WHERE YOUR HEAD'S AT, AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERSENSE MOTION TRACKING TECHNOLOGY Presented by Eric Foxlin, CTO and Founder ABSTRACT InterSense was founded in June of 1996 by Eric Foxlin based on his dissertation research at MIT. The company now has sales to major corporations in thirteen countries as well as to some of the world's top research facilities. InterSense has become the leading commercial supplier of inertial and hybrid motion- tracking systems to facilitate the interaction between people and computers. InterSense's motion trackers are a key enabling technology in a wide range of applications, including: a Virtual Reality (VR) gaming a Simulation & training using head-mounted displays a Interactive visualization & design in surround-screen projection environments a Camera tracking for television and web-cast virtual studio productions a Augmented Reality (AR) for enhanced manufacturing and maintenance a Body tracking for sports and fitness a Gimbal stabilization In these and many other applications, the high resolution, fast update rates, unprecedented dynamic accuracy, inherent predictive capability, and unlimited scalable tracking range make InterSense's inertial sensor fusion tracking solutions preferable to previous magnetic, optical, and acoustic approaches. This event offers the opportunity for our membership to learn about the need for and application of novel guidance and navigation technologies in problem domains that we in the RAS don't often think of. This may stimulate ideas for the application of robotic navigation technologies in InterSense's applications areas or for the application of InterSense's technologies in mobile robotic navigation applications. We hope you will be able to come to this very interesting evening, which may include a few demonstrations as well if we are lucky. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Eric Foxlin is Chairman and Chief Technology Officer at InterSense Inc., which he founded based on technology he developed at MIT. He is the author of 10 issued and pending patents, as well as a book chapter and numerous technical publications on the subject of motion-tracking technology. His inventions include the GEOS drift-corrected inertial orientation tracking system, the Constellation wide-area hybrid position and orientation tracking system, the WearTrack wearable head and hand tracker, and a differential inertial tracking system which enables use of aided inertial trackers on moving vehicles and motion-based simulator platforms. He earned a B.A. in Physics from Harvard in 1987 and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1993. The Ph.D., which he expected in 1996, has still not been completed, due to InterSense's faster-than-expected take-off. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION *PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED* The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society will meet on Tuesday, November 14, 2000 at Intersense, 73 Second Ave., Burlington, MA at 6:00 PM for informal discussions and for the formal presentation between 6:30 and 7:30 PM. The group has dinner afterwards at a local restaurant, where more conversations can take place with the guest speaker. The meetings are open to the general public and all are welcome at the dinner afterwards. However, SPACE AT THIS MEETING IS LIMITED, SO PLEASE PREREGISTER BY CALLING OR E-MAILING BRUCE LEVENS at (508) 271-1233 or BCL0@alum.mit.edu (note: that is the number zero in BCL0, and here is a hot link: mailto:BCL0@alum.mit.edu). DIRECTIONS Intersense is located in the Northwest industrial park which is just across Middlesex Turnpike from the Burlington Mall. Take Middlesex Turnpike north, turn left on Second Ave at the light where you see Victoria Station restaurant on your left and Tower records on your far right. Follow Second Ave as it turns right at the end of one block then over a hill and then find 73 Second Ave on your left. For more information about our section, visit our web site at http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/cleary/ieee/ ------- [ Tell others who are interested in our meetings that they may subscribe to our mailing list by sending a blank email to "Robotics.Boston-subscribe@topica.com". To unsubscribe, send a blank message to "Robotics.Boston-unsubscribe@topica.com". If you have any questions, contact the chapter secretary, Jay Sage, at "Jay.Sage@ieee.org" (mailto:Jay.Sage@ieee.org). ]