SME Fellow Citation

Educational leadership and innovations,  theoretical developments,  inventions and prototypical developments of machine vision, intelligent industrial robots and automated guided vehicles that combine vision sensing and processing to enable the manipulator to perform a task that would normally require a human operator.

 

  Industrial Leadership

Dr. Hall was a founder in the consulting company, International Computer Robotics Corporation (ICRC), founded in 1985 in Ohio.  This company was a reengineering of Computer Recognition Corp. of  Knoxville, Tennessee, which he founded and was active in from 1980-87.   Customers include Procter & Gamble, the National Science Foundation, the Ohio Edison Program, the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Cincinnati Bell and others. He has held a variety of positions in ICRC such as Vice President of Research.

Dr. Hall is a founding member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of  Robotics Systems in 1983 and is still active on this successful Journal published by John Wiley.

He is also the founding Chair for the Advisory Committee which formed the Center for Engineering Systems Advanced Research between 1983-85 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  This successful Center is quite active in national and international research.

Ernest L. Hall Resume

ERNEST L. HALL, Ph.D., P.E.

 

TITLE:                   Consultant and Chaired Professor of Robotics University of Cincinnati

 

EDUCATION:      BSEE      (Electrical Engineering     University of Missouri                        1965

MSEE    (Electrical Engineering)    University of Missouri                        1966

PhD      (Bioengineering)                 University of Missouri                        1971

 

EXPERIENCE:                    1983 - Present     Paul E. Geier Chair Professor of Robotics, Director of the Center for Robotics Research

1991 - 1994           Co-Director, Multi-University Material Handling Research Center

1976-83                   University of Tennessee, IBM Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

1973-76                   University of Southern California, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Radiology

1972-73                  Yale University, Assistant Professor of Radiology

1971-72                   University of Missouri, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering and Radiology

1968-71                            University of Missouri, Research Associate

1967-68                   Senior Engineer, Emerson Electric  Company

1958-67                   United States Marine Corps, Radar Officer, NESEP

 SOCIETIES

Registered Professional Engineer

Certified Manufacturing Engineer

Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Fellow)

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (Fellow)

International Society of Optical Engineering (Fellow)

Institute of Industrial Engineers (Senior Member)

Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu

 

 INTEREST AREAS

Industrial Robotics

Intelligent Robots and Sensor Systems

Computer Image Processing and Recognition

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1.        S.M. Alhaj Ali and E.L. Hall, “Technologies for Autonomous Operation in Unstructured Outdoor Environments,” Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, Vol. 12, ASME Press, New York, 2002, pp. 57-62.

2.        X. Liao and E.L. Hall, “Beyond Adaptive Critic- Creative Learning for Intelligent Autonomous Mobile Robots,” Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, Vol. 12, ASME Press, New York, 2002, pp. 45-59.

3.        E. L. Hall, "Intelligent Robot Trends and Predictions for the .Net Future," Proceedings of the SPIE Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision Conference, Oct. 29-31, 2001, Boston. MA.

4.       X. Liao, M. Cao, and E.L. Hall, "Beyond Adaptive Critic- Creative Learning for Intelligent Mobile Robots," Proceedings of the SPIE Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision Conference, Oct. 29-31, 2001, Boston. MA.

5.       J. Cao, X. Liao and E.L. Hall, “Reactive Navigation for Autonomous Guided Vehicle Using the Neuro-fuzzy Techniques,” Proceedings of the SPIE Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision Conference XVIII, Sep. 19-22, 1999, Boston. MA.

6.        W. H. DeCamp, H. N. Agha, E. L. Hall and R L. Shell,  "Robotic Palletizing of Fixed and Variable Size/Content Parcels," Handbook of Industrial Automation, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2000.

7.        P. Guda,  J. Cao, J.H. Gailey and E. L. Hall, "Machine Vision Fundamentals,"  Handbook of Industrial Automation, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2000.

8.        W. Golnazarian and E. L. Hall, "Intelligent Industrial Robots,"  Handbook of Industrial Automation, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2000.

9.        E. L. Hall, K. Kola and M. Cao, "Fundamentals of Digital Motion Control," Handbook of Industrial Automation, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2000.

  1. K. C. Kolli, K. Kola, and E. L. Hall, " Design Development of Steering and Speed Control for an Intelligent Mobile Robot," Proc. Of the Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVII, SPIE Conference 3522, Nov. 2-3, 1998, Boston, MA.
  2. E. L. Hall, "Intelligent Robot Trends for 1998", Proc. Of the Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVII, SPIE Conference 3522, Nov. 2-3, 1998, Boston, MA.
  3.  K. Kumaraguru and E.L. Hall, "Expert System Approach to the Design of an Automated Guided Vehicle," Proc. Of the Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVII, SPIE Conference 3522, Nov. 2-3, 1998, Boston, MA.

 

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

 

1985-1998               Board Member, International Computer Robotics Corporation

1983-Present         Editorial Board, Journal 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 that include the following: Chiquita Brands, Tennant Company, Timken Company, The Kroger Company,  Xerox Corp., Ortex, Inc., James River Corporation, HDR, Inc., General Electric, Procter & Gamble Co. , NIOSH,      Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Nichols Research Corp., Emerson Electric Co.,   Los Alamos National Laboratory, General Instruments, Inc.,  Perkin Elmer Corp., Loma Linda Medical Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  ICRC,   Monarch and others.                               

COLLABORATIONS

Collaboration with Richard L. Shell and 57 authors of the 48 chapters in the Handbook of Industrial Automation that was published in 2000.  This book was awarded the SME Merchant Textbook of the Year award in 2002. Collaboration with David Casasent of CMU on the organization of the Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision Conference for the past 20 years. Collaboration with Zuo Liang Cao, Tianjin University, China and Juha Roening, University of Oulu, Finland, Jun-ichiro Toriwake, Nagoya University, Japan, Rolf Alers, Germany and others.

 

Visiting Professor, Middlesex University, UK

 

Dissertation Advisor: Samuel J. Dwyer, III, currently at the University of Virginia.

 

Most recent Ph.D students

Shan Yu, GE Medical Imaging

Shaopeng (Frank) Cheng, Western Michigan University

Dzwo-Dzung Li, Tiawin

Zhen Tu, Ivy Tech Institute

Ziad Yammine, Lebanon

Joseph Nurre, P&G

Kader Mazouz, Florida Atlantic University

 

Current student web pages at: http://www.robotics.uc.edu

 

Total number of graduate students advised is about   20 Ph. D and 300 MS. Many are co-authors on the complete list of books, papers and patents as shown at : http://ww.eng.uc.edu/~elhall/