Dr. Eric M. Schwartz's Home Page

Dr. Eric M. Schwartz
Associate Director, Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL)at the University of Florida (UF)
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Intelligen Machines and Robotics (CIMAR) at UF
Master Lecturer, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at UF
Affiliate Faculty Member, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at UF
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at UF

Office: MAEB 321, (352) 392-2541
[MEAB = Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Building B]
Lab: MAEB 325, (352) 392-6605
Fax: Available upon request
ECE Office: Larsen 216, (352) 392-0912
Email: ems at mil ufl edu

Shipping Address (FedEx/UPS):	UF Campus/Mailing Address (USPS):
Dr. Eric M. Schwartz Mechanical Aero C, Bulding 183 University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611-6000	Dr. Eric M. Schwartz MAEB 321, Buiding 720 University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611-6300

Physical UF Campus Address:

MAEB 321 (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Building B) Office Hours in MAEB 321 (for 14 May 2012 - 10 Aug 2012);

Mon: 2:30-3:30; Wed: 3-4pm; Thur: 1:00-1:40pm in MAEB 321

When available in office (MAEB 321) [most MWF mornings]

Always by email (ems at mil ufl edu)

When my office door is open and I'm not busy

My Summer 2012 schedule

My Summer 2012 semester teaching load and major activities:

EEL 3701: Digital Logic and Computer Systems
EEL 4744: Microprocessor Applications
EGN 1002: Introduction to Engineering (for ECE) (summer B only)
I'm the Associate Director of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MIL).
I'm a Faculty Member of the Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics (CIMAR).
I'm the Faculty Advisor for the three-time world champion autonomous submarine, SubjuGator, winner of each of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 AUVSI and ONR's 8th, 9th and 10th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competitions. We came in third place in 2011.
I'm the Faculty Advisor for the InstiGator Robot Lawnmower Teams (at UF) for the ION Robotic Lawn Mower Competition. We are the 2011 static competition champion.
I'm the Faculty Advisor for the Gator Robotics Club (at UF).
I'm the Faculty Advisor for the NASA Lunabotics Robot Team (at UF). See more info.
I'm a member of the UF's Team Gator Nation , a semifinalist in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge autonomous vehicle competition with our vehicle, the Urban NaviGator .
I'm the Faculty Advisor for the IEEE Gainesville Section Student Branch (at UF).
I'm the Treasurer of the Gainesville section of IEEE.
I'm the Faculty Advisor for UF's Campus Young Life.

Recent Awards:

2002-2003 UF Teacher of the Year (original link)

2002-2003 UF's College of Engineering Teacher of the Year. (original link unavailable)

Provost's announcemnent University wide award . (original link)

2005 Anderson/CLAS Scholar Faculty Honoree (also each year from 2000-2004)

Some Publications:

Choi, TaeHoon, and Nechyba, Michael, and Schwartz, Eric, and Arroyo, Antonio , 2003. "Creation and Analysis of a Scenario Based Universal Sensory Driver Layer with Real time Fault Tolerant Properties." IROS 2003: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 27 - 31, 2003.
Schwartz, Eric, and Manseur, Rachid, and Doty, Keith, 2003. "Non Commensurate Manipulator Jacobian." Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference of Robotics and Applications, Salzburg, Austria, June 25-27, 2003.
Schwartz, Eric M., and Manseur, Rachid, and Doty, Keith L., 2002. "Noncommensurate Systems in Robotics." International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Volume 17, Issue 2, pages 86-92, 2002.
Schwartz, Eric M., 1995. Algebraic Properties of Noncommensurate Systems and their Applications in Robotics. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Doty, Keith L., Melchiorri, C., Schwartz, Eric M., and Bonitvento, C., "Robot Manipulability." IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, Volume 11, Issue 3, pages 462-468, June 1995.
Other conference publications

This page was last modified Tues, 11 Aug 2009.