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A bit about what we do
Based in Amherst, Massachusetts, The ERNEST Project is a small group of students, faculty members and industry professionals building technologies that make transportation easier for individuals with physical or visual disabilities. Our long-range goal (and the goal of many other organizations) is to develop a fully-autonomous vehicle system with a speech driven user-interface. This, of course, requires many years of further research and development. Along the way, we plan on mobilizing drivers by improving manual vehicle control and related systems.
Inaugurated in February 2006, the Project has been vigorously researching advanced computer vision strategies and investigating high-level vision based neural network and artificial retina technology. To read more about the details, check out the Technology page.
Current efforts are focused on ALBERT, a small car-like robot, and the Drive-By-Finger™ vehicle control system. Both items we’re presented at the 2006 NCIIA conference in Portland, Oregon and the Springfield Science Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts. To learn more about ALBERT and Drive-By-Finger™, visit the Technology page.
We’re primarily supported by Hampshire College, Mt. Holyoke College, and the Lemelson Assistive Technology Development Center. Software and research efforts are based out of Clapp Laboratory in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Fabrication and project management occurs at the Lemelson Center for Design in Amherst.
