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Michael Jenkin
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Latest papers
Can visual acceleration evoke a sensation of tilt?
Experimental brain research · 2025 · senior author
The impact of gravity on perceived object height.
NPJ microgravity · 2024
The effects of long-term exposure to microgravity and body orientation relative to gravity on perceived traveled distance.
NPJ microgravity · 2024
Latest funding
- $68,141
The AirChair: Safe and efficient wheelchair convoys for airports
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $72,000
Interactive autonomous machines
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $4,375,000
NSERC Canadian Robotics Network
NSERC · 2017 · Co-investigator
13 publications.
Can visual acceleration evoke a sensation of tilt?
Harris LR, Jörges B, Bury N, McManus M, Bansal A, Allison RS, Jenkin M
The impact of gravity on perceived object height.
Jörges B, Bury N, McManus M, Bansal A, Allison RS, Jenkin M, Harris LR
The effects of long-term exposure to microgravity and body orientation relative to gravity on perceived traveled distance.
Jörges B, Bury N, McManus M, Bansal A, Allison RS, Jenkin M, Harris LR
Neutral buoyancy and the static perception of upright.
Jenkin H, Jenkin M, Harris LR, Herpers R
Vection underwater illustrates the limitations of neutral buoyancy as a microgravity analog.
Bury NA, Jenkin M, Allison RS, Herpers R, Harris LR
Long-duration head down bed rest as an analog of microgravity: Effects on the static perception of upright.
Harris LR, Jenkin M, Herpers R
Monitoring Re-Growth of Invasive Plants Using an Autonomous Surface Vessel.
Codd-Downey R, Jenkin M, Dey BB, Zacher J, Blainey E, Andrews P
The effect of long-term exposure to microgravity on the perception of upright.
Harris LR, Jenkin M, Jenkin H, Zacher JE, Dyde RT
How much gravity is needed to establish the perceptual upright?
Harris LR, Herpers R, Hofhammer T, Jenkin M
The effect of blur on the perception of up.
Harris LR, Jenkin M
The AirChair: Safe and efficient wheelchair convoys for airports
Principal investigators: Elder, James JH
Keywords: Airports; Artificial intelligence; Computer vision; Intelligent wheelchairs; Object detection; Object tracking; Obstacle avoidance; Robotics; Velocity control
Interactive autonomous machines
Principal investigators: Jenkin, Michael
Keywords: autonomous robots; multi-cue integration; interaction strategies for autonomous robots
NSERC Canadian Robotics Network
Principal investigators: Dudek, Gregory GL
Sensing and perception for autonomous agents
Principal investigators: Jenkin, Michael
6DOF virtual reality tracker
Principal investigators: Jenkin, Michael
NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN)
Principal investigators: Dudek, Gregory
Perception for mobile agents
Principal investigators: Jenkin, Michael
Virtual reality display renewal
Principal investigators: Jenkin, Michael
AquaNet
Principal investigators: Dudek, Gregory
NSERC CREATE Training program in Computational Approaches to Sensorimotor Transformations for the Control of Action
Principal investigators: Culham, Jody
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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