Kevin M. Nickels, Ph.D.

Contact Information

	Position	Associate Professor Engineering Science Trinity University
	Address	Center for the Sciences & Innovation (CSI) Room 470Q (Office) / 384A (Lab) Trinity University One Trinity Place San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
	Phone:	(210) 999-7543
	Appointments:	Please use this link to schedule individual appointments.
	Email:	knickels AT trinity.edu (preferred) Kevin.Nickels AT trinity.edu knickels AT engr.trinity.edu k.nickels AT ieee.org kevinnickels AT alumni.purdue.edu
	Web:	http://www.trinity.edu/knickels TU Robotics - my research web site
	Social Media:	Students and colleagues are welcome to connect with me on LinkedIn. Friends, Colleagues, and alumni who want to keep up with me can find me on FaceBook, if they want to know about my scouting and my kids activities :) Current students and professional contacts should connect via LinkedIn.

Trinity Students: Find out about spice, CDE, adding printers, and more! Visit http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~knickels/howto.
A collection of useful data sheets for electronics classes.

Non-Majors Classes

ENGR 2192 "Introdution to Academic Making" (started as ENGR-2191 "Problems in Engineering")
ENGR 2191 "Introdution to Electrical Making" (may get its own number if popular)

Core Engineering

ENGR 4381/4382 - "Design VII/VIII - Senior Design"

Electrical/Computer Electives

Working Document - Trinity Students read this working document of some current projects.
For some HOWTOs about random robotic software, see TU Robotics - my research web site
Curriculum Vitae (Extended) (PDF)
My publication list (with copies of selected papers)
I do not do Operating Systems research, but I use GNU/Linux for pretty much all my work. I've written a brief history of my use of GNU/Linux since 1993.
Robotics Research:
- Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
- Navigation on Reference Maps
- Sensor Fusion of Lidar and Stereo for Urban Mobile Robots
- Camera Stabilization for Mobile Robots
- Evaluation of Maps for Mobile Robots
- More teaching than research, but one of my robotic senior design projects was written up as a Trinity University Tip Sheet by Public Relations.
Computer Vision Research:
- Model-based Tracking of 2DOF arm with unknown link lengths
- A Visual Space-Mouse
Educational/Pedagogic Research:
- Using robots to teach non-engineers about science and technology
- Teaching Introductory Digital Logic
- Active Learning
- Teaching and Education Hints from EESP
- The impact of flexible deadlines and optional re-submission of homework and lab reports on student learning
Doctoral Research - University of Illinois:
Masters Research - University of Illinois:
- Textured Image Segmentation

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