Sebastian van Delden's Publications Peer-Reviewed, Published Articles (PEDAGOGY) Sebastian van Delden. 2010. Getting Your Robotic Arms around Computing Curricula. In the Journal of Computers in Education. Published by the American Society for Engineering Education. vol 1(4). Pp 91-101. Oct-Dec Volume. Sebastian van Delden. 2010. Computer Science Meets Industrial Robotics: A Visual Servoing Project for a Computer Vision Course. In the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. Volume 25, Number 6. Pages 85-92. Select papers from the 15th Annual Northeast Meeting of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges. Hartford University. Sebastian van Delden. 2010. Industrial Robotic Game Playing: An AI Course. In the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. Volume 25, Number 3. Pages 134-142. Select papers from the 25th Annual Eastern Meeting of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges. Villanova University, Pennsylvania. January 2010. Sebastian van Delden and Wei Zhong. 2008. Effective Integration of Autonomous Robots into an Introductory Computer Science Course: A Case Study. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. Select papers from the Sixth Meeting of the Consortium for Computing Science in Colleges. vol 23(4), pp. 10-19, April 2008. Peer-Reviewed, Published Articles (RESEARCH) Sebastian van Delden, Carlos Rosario, Gregory Hess, and Michael Umrysh. 2012 - accepted. Pick-and-Place Application Development using Voice and Visual Commands. Industrial Robot: An International Journal. Emerald Publishers. Sebastian van Delden and Michael Umrysh. 2011. Visual Detection of Objects in a Robotic Work Area using Hand Gestures, In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Sensor Environments, Pages 237-243, Montreal, Canada, September 17-18, 2011. Sebastian van Delden and Nicole Tobias. 2010. A Novel Approach to 3D Contour Recovery using Structured Light Mounted to a Robotic Manipulator. In the Proceedings of the 15th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, Cambridge, MA, Pages 167-173, Nov 1-3, 2010. Sebastian van Delden and Frank Hardy. 2009. Robotic Eye-in-hand Calibration in an Uncalibrated Environment. In the Journal on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Volume 6, Number 6. Pages 67-72. Sebastian van Delden and Benjamin Overcash. 2008. Towards Voice-Guided Robotic Manipulator Jogging. In Proceedings of the 12th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Volume 3. Pages 138-144. Orlando, FL. July 2008. Sebastian van Delden. 2007. Problematic Syntactic Patterns. Language and Computers, Volume 60. Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word: Corpus Research from Phrase to Discourse. Edited by Eileen Fitzpatrick. Rodopi Publishers. Pages 59-71. Sebastian van Delden, Ricky Farr, and Seth Hensley. 2007. An Automated Camera Orientation Recovery Algorithm for an Eye-in-Hand Robotic Manipulator. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Robotic and Sensors Environments. Pages 1-6. Ottawa, Canada. October 12-13, 2007. Sebastian van Delden. 2006. Improving Inter-Level Communication in Cascaded Finite-State Partial Parser. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Selected Papers from the Fifth International Workshop on Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing. Springer. Volume 4002. Pages 259-270. Sebastian van Delden. 2006. Constructing a Simple Visually-Guided Robotic Part-Grasping System with Off-the-Shelf Components. In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence. Pages 211-216. Washington, DC. November 13-15th, 2006. Sebastian van Delden. 2005. Complement Identification Algorithms for Partial Parsers. International Transaction on Computer Science and Engineering. Volume 9, Number 1. Pages 210-220. June 2005. Sebastian van Delden. 2005. Simple but Useful Algorithms for Identifying Noun Phrase Complements of Embedded Clauses in a Partial Parse. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems. Pages 357-361. Alicante, Spain. June 2005. Sebastian van Delden and Fernando Gomez. 2004. Cascaded Finite-State Partial Parsing: A Larger-First Approach. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT). Edited by N. Nicolov, K. Botcheva, G. Angelova, and R. Mitkov. Volume 260, Pages 402-413. John Benjamin Publishers, Amsterdam. Sebastian van Delden and Fernando Gomez. 2004. A Finite-State Comma Tagger. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools. Volume 13. Number 3. Pages 449-468. World Scientific Publishing Company. Sebastian van Delden and Fernando Gomez. 2004. Retrieving NASA Problem Reports: A Case Study in Natural Language Information Retrieval. Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering. Volume 48, Number 2. Pages 231-246. Elsevier Science. Sebastian van Delden, David Bracewell, and Fernando Gomez. 2004. Supervised and Unsupervised Automatic Spelling Correction Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. Las Vegas, Nevada. Pages 530-535. November 8-10, 2004. Sebastian van Delden and Fernando Gomez. 2003. Extending a Finite State Approach for Parsing Commas in English to Dutch. Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics. Edited by Charles F. Meyer and Nelleke Oostdijk. Volume 27, Pages 25-28. Sebastian van Delden and Fernando Gomez. 2003. A Larger-First Approach to Partial Parsing. In Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. Pages 124-131. Borovets, Bulgaria, September 10-12, 2003. Sebastian van Delden. 2003. Learning WordNet-Based Classification Rules. In Proceedings of the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium on Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments. Pages 203-208. ISBN 1-57735-181-9. Stanford University, Stanford, California, March 24-26th, 2003. Sebastian van Delden. 2002. A Hybrid Approach to Pre-Conjunct Identification. In Proceedings of the 2002 Language Engineering Conference. Pages 72-77. University of Hyderabad, India. December 13-15th, 2002. Sebastian van Delden and Fernando Gomez. 2002. Combining Finite State Automata and a Greedy Learning Algorithm to Determine the Syntactic Role of Commas. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence. Washington, D.C. Pages 293-301. November 4-6th, 2002. Sebastian van Delden and Fernando Gomez. 2002. Retrieving NASA Problem Reports with Natural Language. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems. Pages 150-159. Stockholm, Sweden. June 26-27th, 2002. Notable Presentations: Led Round-Table discussions at the College of Arts and Sciences’ Evening of Great Conversations. Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006. Presented at the College of Arts and Sciences - Getting off to a Fast Start Series. Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2004. Fast Moving Technology Days Conference. Stäubli Corporation. Duncan, South Carolina. 2010, 2006. Booth and presentation. Computer Simulation: Training 21st Century Soldiers for Battle. USC Upstate Honors Program Fall 2007 Conversation Series. November 15, 2007. Towards the Partial Calibration of an Eye-in-Hand Robotic Manipulator. Presented at the Third Annual USC Upstate Research Symposium. April 6, 2007. MindStorm Robots in the Classroom. Presented at the Cool Technologies in the Classroom Workshop. USC Upstate. February 16, 2007. A Visually Guided Part Grasping System. Presented at the 2006 USC Upstate Research Symposium. April 21, 2006. Detecting Edges in Digital Images. Presented at the Guy Jacobson Mathematics Colloquium on February 24, 2005. Undergraduate Research Assistant Presentations/Posters: Michael Umrysh and Sebastian van Delden. 2011. Initial Steps Towards Using Hand Gestures to Control a Robotic Arm. Presented at the Seventh Annual USC Upstate Research Symposium. April 15, 2011. ****Best Paper Award for "Math and Computer Science". Nicole Hodge and Sebastian van Delden. 2010. Contour Recovery using Structured Light mounted to a Robotic Manipulator. Poster at Discovery Day 2010, USC Columbia. April 23, 2010. ****Best Poster Award for "Computer Science and Engineering" Nicole Hodge, Robert Mahmoudishad, Mark Parrish, and Sebastian van Delden. 2009. A Novel Robotic Approach to Contour Recovery using Structured Light. Presented at the Fifth Annual USC Upstate Research Symposium. March 27th, 2009 Benjamin Overcash and Sebastian van Delden. Spring 2008. Initial Steps to Voice-Guided Robotic Manipulation. Presented at the Fourth Annual USC Upstate Research Symposium. April 11th, 2008. Frank Hardy and Sebastian van Delden. Spring 2008. Robot-Camera Orientation Recovery from the Optical Flow of High Interest points in an Unknown Scene. Poster at the Fourth Annual USC Upstate Research Symposium. April 11th, 2008. Derrick Thompson, Jose Reyes, and Sebastian van Delden. Spring 2007. Vision-Based Robots Playing Pong. Presented at the Third Annual USC Upstate Research Symposium. April 6th, 2007. William Bittle, Sayed Shahabi, Ashley Bryant and Sebastian van Delden. WOODBURNER: An Automated Robotic Character Etching System. Poster at the Second Annual USC Upstate Research Symposium. April 21st, 2006. Jacob Landon, Stephen van Dahm, Sebastian van Delden, Ed Nagelhout. Towards a Syntactically and Semantically Enhanced Corpus of Direct Mail Letters. First Annual USC Upstate Research Symposium. University of South Carolina Upstate. Spartanburg, South Carolina. April 22nd, 2005. (Presentation given by Jacob Landon, Research Assistant) Shea Menge, Sebastian van Delden, and Ed Nagelhout. An Online Search Tool for a Philanthropic Discourse Corpus. First Annual USC Upstate Research Symposium. University of South Carolina Upstate. Spartanburg, South Carolina. April 22nd, 2005. (Poster Presentation given by Shea Menge, Research Assistant) Other Conferences/Workshops Attended (Did not present): Association of American Colleges and Universities conference on Creativity, Inquiry, Discovery: Undergraduate Research, November 11-13, 2010. Fast Moving Technology Days Conference. Stäubli Corporation. Duncan, South Carolina. 2010, 2006. Booth and presentation. Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Conference. 2008. 2008 Campus Safety Conference. Hilton Head, SC. February 19-20, 2008. Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Conference. Baltimore, MD. October 20-22, 2007. Fast Moving Technology Days. Staubli Corporation. Duncan, SC. September 14-15th 2006. The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2006). Orlando, FL. May 15-19th, 2006. Formal Industry Training and Research: Fanuc Operations and Programming course, Lake Forrest, California. 2010. Cognex Insight Vision Systems Workshop: Standard and Advanced. Natick, Massachusetts. February 2010. Vehicle-Configuration Expert-Systems Research Work, BMW’s IT Research Center, 2007-2008. V+ Training Program. Stäubli Corporation. Duncan, South Carolina. 2005.