N-CART Selected Publications

Ferworn, Alexander; Ostrom, Devin; Barnum, Kevin; Dallaire, Mike; Harkness, Denis; and Dolderman, Mike (2008), "Canine Remote Deployment System for Urban Search and Rescue", Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: Vol. 5 : Iss. 1, Article 9.

Salah Sharieh, Alexander Ferworn, Vladislav Toronov, (2008), "A GSM MOBILE SYSTEM TO MONITOR BRAIN FUNCTION USING A NEAR-INFRARED LIGHT SENSOR", In Proceedings of the 21st Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Niagara , Computer Applications, Falls,Ontario, Canada.

Salah Sharieh,Alexander Ferworn,Vladislav Toronov,Abdolreza Abhari, "An Ad-hoc Network Based Framework for Monitoring Brain Function", the 11th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium,Ottawa, Canada ,April 14-17 2008, ACM, New York,NY, USA.

Elliott Coleshill, Dr. Alex Ferworn, Dr. Deborah Stacey, "Image Enhancement using Frame Extraction Through Time", CISSE 2007, Dec 3-12, 2007, Online.

I. Woungang, S. Misra, A. Sadeghian and A. Ferworn. "A Minimum Distance Bound on 1-Generator Quasi-Cyclic Codes". Proc. of the 10th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT 2007), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, June 6-8, pp. 156-159, IEEE Catalog # 07EX1602C, ISBN: 1-4244-0769-9, 2007.

H. Pham, Q. Mahmoud, A. Ferworn, A. Sadegian, "Applying Model-Driven Techniques to Pervasive System Engineering", Proc. Of the 29th Intl. Conf. on Software Eng. (ICSE07), May 20-26, 2007, Minneapolis, USA.

H. Pham, A. Ferworn, Q. Mamoud, A. Sadeghian, "Applying Model-Driven Development Techniques to the Development of Search and Rescue Systems", IEEE SoSE 2007, April 16-18, 2007, San Antonio, TX, USA.

A. Ferworn, A. Sadeghian, K. Barnum, D. Ostrom, H. Rahnama, I. Woungang, "Canine as Robot in Directed Search", IEEE SoSE 2007, April 16-18, 2007, San Antonio, TX, USA.

A. Ferworn, A. Sadeghian, K. Barnum, D. Ostrom, H. Rahnama, I. Woungang, "Rubble Search with Canine Augmentation Technology", IEEE SoSE 2007, April 16-18, 2007, San Antonio, TX, USA.

A. Ferworn, N. Tran, J. Tran, G. Zarnett, F. Sharifi, "WiFi repeater deployment for improved communication in confined-space urban disaster search" , IEEE SoSE 2007, April 16-18, 2007, San Antonio, TX, USA.

J.E. Coleshill, A. Ferworn, D. Stacey, "Obstruction Removal using Feature Extraction Through Time for Video Conferencing Processing" , CISSE 2006, Dec 4-14, 2006, Online.

Elliott Coleshill, Dr. Alex Ferworn, Dr. Deborah Stacey, "Traffic Safetyusing Frame Extraction Through Time", SoSE 2007, April 16-18, 2007, San Antonio, TX, USA.

J.E. Coleshill, A. Ferworn, D. Stacey, "Feature Extraction Through Time" 57th International Astronautical Congress,IAC-06-B4.4.03, Valencia Spain, Oct 2-6, 2006 (in press).

A. Ferworn, G. Hough, R. Manca, B. Antonishek, J. Scholtz, A. Jacoff, "Expedients for Marsupial Operations of USAR Robots" , IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR06, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, August 22-24, 2006 (in press).

A. Ferworn, A. Sadeghian, H. Rahnama, H. Pham, C. Erikson, K. Barnum, D. Ostrom, L. Dell’Agnese, "Urban Search and Rescue with Canine Augmentation Technology" 2006 IEEE International Conference of Systems of Systems (SoSE’06), Los Angeles, USA, Apr 24-26, 2006.

A. Arora, A. Ferworn,“Pocket PC Beacons: Wi-Fi based human tracking and following for mobile robots” ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2005) Special Track on Handheld Computing, Santa Fe, USA, March 13-17, 2005.

A. Ferworn, A. Arora, M. Jaseemuddin,"IP Mobility Issues for a Mobile Tele-Robotic System – NEPWAK", International Journal of Automation and Computing, Special Issue of Online Robots and E-automation, ISSN1476-8186, pp. 10-16, October 2004.

A. Arora, A. Ferworn, M. Jaseemuddin, "Handover Issues for an Internet-Enabled Mobile Telebotic System", ICUE’04, Ryerson University.

W. Lu, A. Ferworn. "A Synchronization Mechanism for Real-Time Multimedia Communications Including Teleoperation", ICUE’04, Ryerson University.

H.C. Lac, A. Ferworn, "SNP Analysis for Detecting Complex Disease Associated Sites", ICUE’04, Ryerson University.

P. Mistry, A. Ferworn, "Optimization of Autonomous Robotic Vehicular Platform for Exploration of Celestial Bodies", ICUE’04, Ryerson University

J.E. Coleshill, A. Ferworn. "Spherical Panoramic Video For Micro-Gravity Applications", 55th International Astronautical Congress, Vancouver, Canada, Oct 4-8, 2004.

A. Ferworn, W. Lu, A. Arora, J. PhamWing, H. Shiu, D. Ostrom, ">Telebotic control of a powered wheelchair across the WWW",  The 2nd International Conference on Mechatronics and Information Technology (ICMIT), Jecheon, Korea, December 4-6, 2003.

J.E. Coleshill, A. Ferworn, "Spherical Panoramic Video -- The Space Ball", The 2003 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications, ICCSAí03, Montreal, Canada, May 18-21, 2003.

A. Ferworn, A. Arora, D. Ostrom and W. Shiu, "The Network-Enabled Powered Wheelchair Adaptor Kit - First Prototype", Proc. of the International Conference for Upcoming Engineers (I-CUE'03), Toronto, Canada, May 2, 2003.

A. Ferworn, W. Lu and J. Pham, "Low Bandwidth and Control of a Mobile Robot on a Wireless Personal Digital Assistant", Proc. of the International Conference for Upcoming Engineers (I-CUE'03), Toronto, Canada, May 2, 2003.

J.E. Coleshill, A. Ferworn, "Panoramic Spherical Video - The Space Ball" , ICCSA 2003, LNCS 2667, pp. 51-58, 2003. (c) Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.

A. Ferworn, W.Lu, "Optimization For Video and Telebotic Control on Palm OS PDAs", Proc. of the International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'02), Las Vegas, USA, June 24-27, 2002.

A. Feworn, W. Lu, J.E. Coleshill and W. Shiu, "WAX -- Next Generation Robot on the Web", Proc. of ht International Conference for Upcoming Engineers (I-CUE'02), Toronto, Canada, May 2, 2002.

A. Ferworn, W. Shiu, W. Lu, " Constrained Image Understanding Using Lossy Compressed Images", Proc. of the IASTED International Conference for Robotics and Applications (RA'01), Clearwater, Florida USA, Novemer 19-22, 2001.

A. Ferworn, J.E. Coleshill, "Challenges for Mobile Internet Appliances", Proc. of the IASTED International Conference for Robotics and Applications (RA'01), Clearwater, Florida USA, November 19-22, 2001.

A. Ferworn, B.D. Torres, S. Patel, S. Kanellis, "The Internet-Enabled Furnace", Proc. of the IASTED International Conference for Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC'01), Clearwater, Florida USA, November 19-22, 2001.

A. Ferworn, W. Shiu, K. Plataniotis, "Constrained Image Understanding for an Internet Robot Supporting Telepresence", Proc. of the 2001 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 13-16 2001.

A. Ferworn, R.C. Bodner, and M.H. Chignell "Auditory WWW Search Tools", Proc. of The Sixth International Conference on Auditory Display, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia USA, April 2-5, 2000.

A. Ferworn, “MAX the Teleoperated Robot on the Internet”, International Trade and Research Mission to Japan, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, March 2000.

A. Ferworn, K. Plataniotis, "Effective Teleoperation Over the World Wide Web">, Proc. of the IASTED International Conference for Robotics and Applications (RA'99), Santa Barbara, USA, October 28-30, 1999.

A. Ferworn, K. Plataniotis, "Solenodon: Unstable Hexapod Walking", Proc. of the 5^th International Conf. on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis, Orlando, USA, July 31 - August 4, 1999.

A. Ferworn, K. Plataniotis, "Using Reflexes to Speed ANN Learning in an Autonomous Mobile Robot", Proc. of the 3^rd IMACS/IEEE International Multiconference on: Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers (CSCC'99), Athens Greece, July 4-8, 1999.

A. Ferworn, R. Roque, and I. Vecchia, "MAX: Wireless Teleoperation via the World Wide Web", Proc. of the 1999 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 9-12 1999.

A. Ferworn, R. Roque, and I. Vecchia, "MAX: Teleoperated Dog on the World Wide Web", Proc. of the 2^nd International Workshop on Presence, The University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 6-7 April 1999.

A. Ferworn, and D.A. Stacey, "The Reflexive Instructor with Deliberate Apprentice Architecture">, Proc. of the 1998 World Automation Congress, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 10-14 1998.

A. Ferworn, "The Reflexive Instructor with Deliberate Apprentice Architecture", Doctoral Thesis, The Department of Systems Design Engineering, The University of Waterloo, August 1997.

A. Ferworn, and D.A. Stacey, "Inchworm Mobility--Stable, Reliable and Inexpensive"">, Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED International Conference for Robotics and Manufacturing, June 14-16 1995, Cancun, Mexico.