Think-A-Move, Ltd.

Think-A-Move, Ltd. has published and presented numerous research relating to hands-free device control and communications using the inner ear for sound capture.

April 2010 - TAM at 2010 SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Conference
TAM presented at 2010 SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Conference, click here for the presentation, and click here for the presented paper.

July 2009 - Army Research Laboratory issued a report on using Speech Control to control iRobot Packbot 510 with SPEAR. Scalability of Robotic Controllers: Speech-Based Robotic Controller Evaluation, by Rodger A. Pettitt; Elizabeth S. Redden; Christian B. Carstens; ARL-TR-4858.

April 2009 - Think-A-Move presented Field Experiments using SPEAR: A speech control system for UGVs Paper at the SPIE Defense, Security + Sensing 2009 Conference. This paper reports on a Field Experiment carried out by the Human Research and Engineering Directorate at Ft. Benning to evaluate the efficacy of using speech to control an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) concurrently with a hand-controller.

October 2008 - TAM featured in TARDEC Report
TAM is featured in TARDEC's Maximizing Critical Core Competencies Quarterly report.

March 2008 - Think-A-Move presented a paper on Hands free device control using sound picked up in the ear canal at the SPIE Defense and Security Conference. The paper highlights research TAM conducted on hands-free control of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) with speech commands and tongue movements under a Phase II SBIR Grant from the Tank-Automotive, Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC).

June 19, 2008 - Think-A-Move presented a poster on Method for non-speech vocalization to control Unmanned Ground Vehicles using humming at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI).

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