John Merchant

BY JOHN MERCHANT
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John Merchant is an IEEE member and president of RPU Technology, in Needham, Mass., which specializes in the development of collision avoidance, target recognition, and target detection systems.

John Merchant RPU Technology 781 444-9426 email: merchant.j@comcast.net
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John Merchant has a B.Sc. in General Science from the University of London and in Mathematics from the University of Wales, Cardiff. He was with Honeywell Infrared and Imaging Systems, Lexington, MA, for over 30 years, receiving their Engineer of the Year award in 1990. He formed RPU

John Merchant
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John Merchant IEEE Member and President, RPU Technology

In this edition of Channel Chat, IEEE member John Merchant, president of RPU Technology, explains how remotely controlled robotic technology can enable a doctor to do surgery on a patient thousands of miles away, or a factory foreman to control production lines in another city. Merchant, who is presenting at the RoboBusiness 2009 conference this week, explores how telepresence actually means enabling any sort of remote work using a mix of networking and robotic technologies to ultimately eliminate travel and commuting for an improved environment.

Vision Systems are Using the Wrong Kind of Information! is the title of a paper that was given by John Merchant of RPU Technology (Needham, MA, merchant.j@comcast.net) on October 2 at the IEEE KIMAS ‘03 Conference in Cambridge, MA (Sonesta Hotel).The essence of the automatic object recognition problem is that the sensed image of the object never exactly corresponds with the reference image or pattern that defines it.Variance Image (patent pending), which is easily derived from any conventional image, is able with many fewer pixels to represent high-resolution patterns effectively and efficiently that cannot be, or are not, precisely defined, according to Mr. Merchant.

IEEE Member John Merchant penned a bylined article about Mars exploration with robots
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IEEE Member John Merchant discusses the immediate and urgent need to reduce commuting worldwide because of highway congestion, climate change, and the cost and availability of energy.
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IEEE member John Merchant explains how remotely controlled robotic technology can enable a doctor to do surgery on a patient thousands of miles away, or a factory foreman to control production lines in another city. John presented at the RoboBusiness 2009 conference last week on the topic of telepresence.

John Merchant, RPU Technology, 781 444-9426, email: merchant.j@comcast.net
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John Merchant has a B.Sc. in General Science from the University of London and in Mathematics from the University of Wales, Cardiff.He was with Honeywell Infrared and Imaging Systems, Lexington, MA for over 30 years, receiving their Engineer of the Year award in 1990.He formed RPU Technology in 1996 with a Phase I SBIR from BMDO for a new (Spatial Modulation) IR staring sensor, and subsequently collaborated with Aerodyne Research Inc.Billerica, MA in a Phase II development of a prototype.He is now working on two Phase I SBIRs recently awarded to RPU Technology to apply variance sampling for autonomous vision and ATR.