Bluffton resident Dr. J.D. Yoder, professor and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Ohio Northern University, along with Jeffery West, BSME'12, Dr. Eric Baumgartner, dean of the College of Engineering, and Drs. Mathias Perrollaz, Michael Seelinger, and Matthew Robinson of the University of Notre Dame, are authors of the paper titled "Experiments comparing precision of stereo-vision approaches for control of an industrial manipulator."

Yoder presented the work at the 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics June 17-21, 2012, at Quebec City, Canada.