The Mars Analog Research Station (MARS) Project aims to provide a realistic simulation of the  survival conditions that humans will encounter in  Mars settlement missions.

This distinction was granted  for extraordinary technical accomplishments in the design and development of the GM-NASA world’s most dexterous, anthropomorphic robot, Robonaut 2 (R2).

United States Patent 7,999,664 Barajas August 16, 2011 Behavior-based low fuel warning system.

United States Patent 7,996,113 Yuan, Barajas, et al. August 9, 2011 Methods of integrating real and virtual world using virtual sensor/actuator.

H. Yang, S. T. S. Bukkapatnam, L. G. Barajas, “Local Recurrence Based Performance Prediction and Prognostics in the Nonlinear and Nonstationary Systems,” Pattern Recognition, vol. 44, pp. 1834-1840, 2011

This recognition was granted for exceptional software efforts and outstanding dedication in the discipline of software development and engineering which contribute to the success of the JSC mission.

United States Patent 7,899,761 Kadambe, Barajas, et al. March 1, 2011 System and method for signal prediction.

During the week of December 8th, 2010, Robonaut 2 traveled to Michigan for a series of media events and demonstrations at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren. Here we are at the GM R&D Center demonstrating its firm but gentle handshaking and camera posing behaviours. In addition, interactive sessions were organized for FIRST Robotics […]

My Math Genealogy Ancestors can be traced back, among others, to Gauß, Ohm, Leibniz, Copernicus, Bode, Laplace, Fourier, Lipschitz, Dirichlet, Poisson, Lagrange, Euler, and Bernoulli. As of 2010/10/02 I have 187 known ancestors in my tree going back to the 13th century. The Java applet below will allow you to browse the complete tree (It […]

J. A. Alcazar and L. G. Barajas, “Dexterous Robotic Hand Grasping Method for Automotive Parts,” presented at the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Nashville, TN, December 6, 2010