Geoffrey Barrows
American inventor
Geoffrey Louis Barrows (born 1970) is an American inventor and the founder of Centeye, a company that specializes in the development of insect vision for robotics. In 2003 he was recognized as a Young Innovator by being included in the MIT Technology Review's TR100 list.2
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Born 1970.1
About
Barrows owns more than six patents for his technology.
Geoffrey Barrows has developed innovative optic-flow sensors to allow both aerial and ground vehicles to travel autonomously, by using the same techniques living creatures such as flying insects do to gauge their altitude and proximity to obstacles in their path.
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Companies
- Centeye (United States)Founder10
Early life and education
- Date not recordedUniversity of Maryland Doctor of Philosophy; electrical engineering3
- Date not recordedStanford University School of Engineering Master of Science; electrical engineering3
- Date not recordedUniversity of Virginia Bachelor of Science; applied mathematics3
Geoffrey was born in Sacramento, California, United States in 1970. As his father was a career officer with the United States Air Force, his family moved frequently, with stops in Massachusetts, Alabama, Nebraska, New York, and Germany. Barrows spent 6 years in Germany as a pre-teen before his family settled in Washington, D.C.
He holds a BS in applied mathematics from the University of Virginia, an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park.
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Career
Occupation: inventor.6
- Date not recordedWorked at United States Naval Research Laboratory4
- Date not recordedFounded Centeye (United States)5
Known for: Centeye (United States).7
Before starting his own company Centeye, Inc. in 2000, he was working with the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. as a research engineer. His company develops bio-inspired microelectronics. Centeye is commercializing optic-flow sensors designed to help unmanned aerial vehicles navigate autonomously by endowing them with the kind of depth perception exhibited by flying insects.
Using standard hobbyist components to build the models, Barrows has constructed toy-like aircraft with complete vision systems – imaging chips and all processors included – that consume a small fraction of a watt of power, with each sensor weighing less than two-tenths of an ounce and the complete aircraft only around 3.5 ounces.
He has open sourced the Arudeye board, a tiny Arduino board with camera built-in.
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Personal life
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- 10WikidataCenteye (United States), Founder