Michael J. Seelinger

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Michael J. Seelinger is a robotics researcher whose career has centered on vision-guided robotic systems, with particular expertise in camera-space manipulation, uncalibrated visual control, and autonomous industrial applications. His most influential contribution — "Automatic Visual Guidance of a Forklift Engaging a Pallet" (2006, 75 citations) — demonstrated the practical power of computer vision in automating material handling, a problem with significant real-world industrial relevance. Building on this, his 2003 work on multi-camera, multi-target robot control (30 citations) established efficient frameworks for three-dimensional robotic guidance without relying on camera calibration, a technically demanding and impactful advance. Seelinger's earlier research laid critical groundwork in applying uncalibrated vision to robotic plasma spraying (1998, 27 citations), showing that vision-based systems could achieve high precision in both position and orientation for complex coating operations. His 1999 paper on camera-space target disposition further refined estimation methods for manipulator control in unstructured environments. Across his body of work, Seelinger consistently pursued practical, calibration-free solutions to difficult robotic guidance problems, spanning industrial manipulators, construction robots, and heterogeneous mobile systems — reflecting a career dedicated to bridging theoretical vision-based control with real-world automation challenges.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Automatic visual guidance of a forklift engaging a pallet

   75 citations · 2006
2. 2
   An efficient multi-camera, multi-target scheme for the three-dimensional control of robots using uncalibrated vision

   30 citations · 2003
3. 3
   Towards a robotic plasma spraying operation using vision

   27 citations · 1998
4. 4
   An alternative approach for image-plane control of robots

   11 citations · 2007
5. 5
   Efficient Camera-Space Target Disposition in a Matrix of Moments Structure Using Camera-Space Manipulation

   11 citations · 1999
6. 6
   <title>Vision-guided, semiautonomous system applied to a robotic coating application</title>

   6 citations · 1997
7. 7
   <title>Point-and-click objective specification for a remote semiautonomous robot system</title>

   5 citations · 1996
8. 8
   Experiments Comparing Precision of Stereo-Vision Approaches for Control of an Industrial Manipulator

   4 citations · 2013
9. 9
   Control of Construction Robots using Camera-Space Manipulation

   3 citations · 1996
10. 10
    Visual Coordination of Heterogeneous Mobile Manipulators

    2 citations · 2006

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