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David L. Livingston, Ph.D., P.E.

 

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Current Research Projects

  • Octopod - A radially-symmetric, octopedal robot for investigating computational intelligence methods.  (Physical conception pictured above.)

  • Tick-Exterminating Robot - a robotic system for eliminating ticks.  (controller code available here)

  • Koios I - An Atmel AVR microcontroller-based board for robotics, process control, etc.

 

Creative Works

  • Paul Kuwick, Thomas Largi, Matthew York, Dennis Crump, David Livingston, and James C. Squire.  "Medical Internet-Aware Refrigerator,"  Patent Pending.

  • S. A. Zahorian, D. L. Livingston and R. A. Pretlow, III, "Passive Fetal Heart Monitoring Apparatus and Method with Enhanced Fetal Heart Beat Discrimination, " Patent Number 5 524,631, June 11, 1996.

  • D. L. Livingston, D. J. Sucher and B. M. Walk. "Apparatus and Method for Effecting Dynamic Address Translation in a Microprocessor Implemented Data Processing System." Patent Number: 4,714,993 December 22, 1987.
     

Publications

  • Paul Kuwick, Thomas Largi, Matt York, Dennis Crump, David Livingston and James C. Squire, "The Smart Medical Refrigerator," IEEE Potentials, February/March 2005.

  • John Anderson, Jacky Baltes, David Livingston, Elizabeth Sklar and Jonah Tower, “Toward an Undergraduate League for RoboCup,” Proceedings of RoboCup-2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII, 2003.

  • Matthew Brooks, Stephen Lee, James C. Squire, and David L. Livingston, “Smart Catheter for Stent Placement,”  IEEE Potentials, March/April 2003.

  • J. Shawn Addington, Robert A. Johnson, and David L. Livingston, “A Work in Progress – Updating and Maintaining an Effective Assessment Program under ABET Engineering Criteria 2000,” 2003 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, session 3560, CD.

  • David L. Livingston and James C. Squire, “Robotics in Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, session 2793, CD.

  • David L. Livingston, “A Case for Teaching Mixed Logic in Digital Design,” 2001 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, session 2703, CD. 

  • Gursel Serpen and David Livingston, "Determination of weights for relaxation recurrent neural networks," Neurocomputing, vol. 34, pp. 145-168, 2000.

  • Gursel Serpen and David Livingston, "Higher‑Order Neural Nets for Task Planning in Decomposed State Spaces," Proceedings of ANNIE '98 Conference, November 1998.

  • Gursel Serpen, David L. Livingston and Azadeh Parvin, "Determination of Parameters in Relaxation‑Search Neural Networks for Optimization Problems," Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks, 1997.

  •  G. Serpen and D. L. Livingston, "Analysis of the Relationship Between Weight Parameters and Stability of Solutions in Hopfield Networks from Dynamic Systems Viewpoint," Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 361‑372, September 1994.

  • D. L. Livingston, S. A. Zahorian, and R. Zhao, "A Neural Network Based Acoustic Fetal Heart Monitor," Virginia Journal of Science, vol. 45, no. 2, p.66, Summer 1993. (Abstract)

  • S. A. Zahorian and D. Livingston, "Neural Networks for Feature Computations in Automatic Speech Recognition," Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 4, pp. 667‑672, June 1992.

  • S. A. Zahorian, S. Kelkar, D. Livingston, "Formant Estimation from Cepstral Coefficients Using a Feedforward Memoryless Neural Network," Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 4, pp. 673‑678, June 1992.

  • S. Albin, J. D. Satira, D. L. Livingston, and T. A. Shull, "Stimulated Electronic Transition Concept for an Erasable Optical Memory," Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 31, pp. 715‑719, part 1, no. 2B, February 1992.

  • S. Albin, J. Satira, D. Livingston, and T. Shull, "Stimulated Electronic Transition Concept for an Erasable Optical Memory," Proceedings of the International Symposium on Optical Memory, October 1991.

  • D. L. Livingston, S. Albin, and S. M. Park, "A New Method for Storing Weights in Analog Neural Hardware," Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon '91. vol. 1, pp. 86‑88. April 1991.

  • G. Serpen and D. L. Livingston, "An Adaptive Constraint Satisfaction Network," Conference Record of the Twenty‑fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, pp. 163‑167, November 1990.

  • G. Serpen and D. L. Livingston, "A Neural Network for Path Search in Directed Graphs," Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon '90, vol. 2, pp. 558‑561, April 1990.

  • G. Serpen and D. L. Livingston, "Neural Nets vs. Analog Computers, an Observation," Applications Track of the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 2, pp. 687‑690, January 1990.

  • C. L. Masti and D. L. Livingston, "Neural Networks for Addressing the Decomposition Problem in Task Planning," Applications Track of the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 2, pp. 555‑558, January 1990.

  • G. Serpen and D. L. Livingston, "A High Order Boltzmann Machine Configuration for Transfer Sequence Searches in Decomposed State Machines," Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. II, p. II‑598, June 1989. (Abstract)

  • D. L. Livingston and G. Serpen, "Evaluation of Lattice Theoretic Techniques for Task Decomposition Formalism," Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon '89, vol. 3, pp. 1114‑1119, April 1989. 

  • K. G. Chen and D. L. Livingston, "Simulation of Space‑Borne Optical Mass Memory System," Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon '88, pp. 98‑102, April 1988.

  • J. Champaneri and D. L. Livingston, "A Structured Light Method for Sensing Alignment During Automated Truss Assembly," Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon '88, pp. 685‑689, April 1988.

  • D. L. Livingston, "Possible Error‑Control Coding Strategies for an Optical Disk," SPIE Proceedings, vol. 899, pp. 109‑113, January 1988.

  • D. L. Livingston, "A Class of Error Control Codes Based on the Discrete Fourier Transform in a Finite Field," Conference Record of the Twenty‑first Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, vol 2., pp. 801‑804, November 1987.

  • D. L. Livingston, "Lattice Theory and the Discrete Fourier Transform," Virginia Journal of Science, vol. 38, no. 2, p. 115, Summer 1987. (Abstract)

  • D. L. Livingston and M. R. Varanasi, "A Lattice Theoretic Approach to the Analysis of Modular Arithmetic," Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon '87, vol.2, pp.584‑588, April 1987.

  • F. T. Kozuh, D. L. Livingston, and T. C. Spillman. "System/370 Capability in a Desktop Computer, IBM Systems Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 245‑254, 1984.

  • M. R. Varanasi and D. L. Livingston, "A Microprocessor Implementation of a Data Compression Algorithm," Virginia Journal of Science, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 87, Summer 1977. (Abstract)

 

Grants

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, "A Microcontroller-Based Module for ECE et al. Instruction" VMI Technology, Teaching and Learning Mini-Grant, $2500, Spring and Summer 2005.

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, "Evolutionary Design of a Symmetric Octopedal Robot,” VMI Grant-In-Aid of Faculty Research, $1650, Summer 2004. 

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, “A Server/Client System for Delivering Instructional Tools for Digital Systems,” VMI Technology, Teaching and Learning Mini-Grant, $2000, Spring and Summer 2004. 

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, and J.C. Squire, co-principal investigator, "Interactive Learning Tools and the Internet:  Creating Simulations on the Web,” VMI Technology, Teaching and Learning Mini-Grant, $5400, Spring and Summer 2003. 

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, and J.C. Squire, co-principal investigator, “A Web-Based Interactive Multimedia Instructional Tool,” VMI Technology, Teaching and Learning Mini-Grant, $2650, Summer 2002.

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, and J.C. Squire, co-principal investigator, "A Simulation Tool for Evaluating Autonomous Robot Navigation Strategies, ” VMI Grant-In-Aid of Faculty Research, $4110, Summer 2002. 

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, "Feasibility of Using Neural Networks for Tuning Magnetic Bearings Controllers," Perkins Faculty Return‑to‑Business/Industry Mini­ Grant, $2,700, June 1999. 

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, "Technical Mathematics Visualization Using a Multimedia Approach, " VCCS Professional Development Grant, $1,500, August 1994 ‑ May 1995.

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, "A Portable Fetal Heart Monitor and Its Application to the Detection of Certain Prenatal Abnormalities," NASA Langley Research Center, Cooperative Agreement NCC‑1 ‑164, stage 1: $46,000, May 16,1992‑February 28,1993, stage 2: $8,082, March 1, 1993 ‑ May 15, 1993.

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, "Feasibility of Fetal Heart Monitor Upgrade," NASA Langley Research Center, Grant NAS1‑18584‑138, $10,000, February 1,1992 ‑ June 30, 1992.

  • S. A. Zahorian, principal investigator, and D. L. Livingston, co‑principal investigator, "Coupling of Bottom‑Up and Top-Down Knowledge Sources for Automatic Speech Recognition," NSF, stage 1: $58,969, September 1, 1990‑August 31, 1991, stage 2: $59,877, September 1, 1991 ‑ February 2, 1992. 

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, "Investigation of Automated Task Learning, Decomposition and Scheduling," NASA Langley Research Center, Grant NAG‑1‑962, $79.267, January 1, 1989 ‑ December 31, 1989.

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, "Evaluation of EDAC Strategies for a Spaceflight Optical Disk Recorder," NASA Langley Research Center, Grant NAS1 ‑18584‑30, $17,999, August 16, 1988 ‑ December 31, 1988.

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, "Evaluation of Task Scheduling Using Constraint Satisfaction Networks," NASA Langley Research Center, Grant NAS1 ‑18584‑24, $20,361, May 16, 1988 ‑ August 15, 1988. 

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, "Evaluation of a Structured Light Technique for Sensing During Automated Truss Assembly," NASA Langley Research Center, Grant NAS1‑17993‑71, $13,000, June 1, 1987 ‑ May 15, 1988

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, "Feasibility of the Decomposition of Robotic Tasks using Lattice Theory," NASA Langley Research Center, Grant NAS1‑18584‑12, $17,553, January 1, 1988 ‑ May 15, 1988.

  • D. L. Livingston, principal investigator, "Space‑Borne Optical Disk Buffer Controller Definition," NASA Langley Research Center, Grant NAS1‑17993‑62, $40,000, February 2.1987 ‑ April 30, 1988.
   

This page was last updated 10/09/2005 by David Livingston.