[VIRTUAL] Spring 2021 GRASP SFI: Edward Tunstel, Raytheon Technologies Research Center, “Toward Head-Up, Hands-Off Interaction with Human-Collaborative Robots”

Dr. Edward Tunstel is Junior Past President of the IEEE SMC Society and an active member of its Technical Committees on Robotics & Intelligent Sensing and on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems. He works as Associate Director for Robotics at Raytheon Technologies Research Center leading a research group developing technologies to enable robotic autonomy and human-collaborative capabilities for manufacturing and service applications. He was previously with Johns Hopkins APL for 10 years as Senior Roboticist in its Intelligent Systems Center and as Space Robotics & Autonomous Control Lead in its Space Department engaged in research enabling future national security and space applications. Prior to APL he was with NASA JPL for 18 years as a Senior Robotics Engineer and Group Leader of its Advanced Robotic Controls Group. He worked on the NASA Mars Exploration Rovers mission as flight systems engineer for autonomous navigation and as engineering team lead for mobility & robotic arm subsystem operations during surface mission execution on Mars. He earned B.S. and M.E. degrees in mechanical engineering from Howard University and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico. He is a Fellow of IEEE with over 170 technical publications in his research interest areas.