Georgia Tech - Mobile Robot Laboratory Mobile Robot Laboratory Charter: The Mobile Robot Laboratory's charter is to discover and develop fundamental scientific principles and practices that are applicable to intelligent mobile robot systems. In addition, it is the goal of this laboratory to facilitate technology transfer of its research results to yield solutions to real world problems for a wide range of application domains. Some of the laboratory's current research projects include: Multiagent Robotic Systems Reactive Control for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems in Hostile Environments (ARPA) Low-Level Nuclear Waste Inspection (Savannah River) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (NSF and Army) Mobile Manipulation (NSF) Router Learning and Adaptation in Autonomous Robotic Systems AAAI-94 Robot Competition (we won!) Also available are laboratory facilities, on-line publications, simulation software (MissionLab version 0.5), and recent publications including: Reactive Control Multi-Agent Robotics Robot Survivability Biological Basis Perception Path Planning and Navigation Robotic Learning Unnmanned Aerial Vehicle Return to the Table of Contents...

Harvard University - HRL Harvard Robotics Laboratory "The Harvard Robotics Laboratory was founded in 1983 by Professor Roger Brockett. Our current research projects include computational vision, neural networks, tactile sensing, motion control and VLSI systems." Information is available on projects, personnel, reports, and events. Return to the Table of Contents...

Johns Hopkins University - Robotics Lab JHU Robotics Laboratory Here can be found some interesting research on metamorphic robots. "A Metamorphic Robotic System is a collection of independently controlled mechatronic modules, each of which has the ability to connect, disconnect and climb over adjacent modules. Each module allows power and information to flow through itsef and to it's neighbors. A change in manipulator morphology results from the locomotion of each module over it's neighbors. Thus a metamorphic system has the ability to dynamically reconfigure. Current work involves ideas in motion planning of such robots , construction of planar metamorphic robots, and 3D models." Information is available on personnel, published papers, mechatronics class, and in the future will contain data on binary robots. Return to the Table of Contents...

Massachusettes Institute of Technology - AI Lab Artifical Intelligence Laboratory "The primary goal of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is to understand how computers can be made to exhibit intelligence. Two corollary goals are to build intelligent systems and to understand certain aspects of biological intelligence. Current research in the Laboratory includes work on robotics, vision, natural language, enhanced reality, learning, reasoning and problem solving, deep expert systems, engineering design, supercomputing, and basic theory. Major new applications themes include information transportation, access, and analysis, enhanced reality technology, and applications of artificial intelligence in medicine." In the Robotics and Machine Vision section of the AI Laboratory (accessable from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory link above), there are several jump points to different groups at MIT, accessable directly from here: Computer Vision Mobile Robotics Microrobotics Humanoid Robotics Artificial Muscle Project Haptic Interfaces Vision and Touch Guided Manipulation Return to the Table of Contents...

Stanford University - Robotics Lab Robotics Laboratory "Research in the Robotics Laboratory that is aimed at making robots more autonomous focuses on vision and image understanding (stereo vision, motion vision, model-based vision), planning (motion planning and task planning), reasoning, machine learning, geometrical modeling, and navigation. Research aimed at making robots more dexterous concentrates on high-level manipulation control including robot design, dynamic control, force-based control, dexterous hands design and control, and force and tactile sensing. The laboratory also conducts research in Artificial Intelligence on topics that are important to the future of robotics, including multi-agent reasoning, reactive systems, spatial reasoning, and temporal reasoning." Information available includes a listing of personnel, research groups, some photos of various robots in the lab, and access to the Stanford Robotics FTP server. Return to the Table of Contents...

Stanford University - DML Dextrous Manipulation Laboratory "The Dextrous Manipulation Laboratory is affiliated with the Center for Design Research (CDR) which is part of the Design Division in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford University. The focus of the work in this laboratory is the modeling and control of dextrous manipulation with robotic and teleoperated hands. Projects include the development of dynamic tactile sensors for detecting "events" such as making contact or slipping and the development of control algorithms and a control framework that allow grasp forces and motions to be controlled precisely." Information available includes a listing of personnel, publications, and a few photos from projects. Return to the Table of Contents...

UC Berkeley - R & IM Lab Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab "The objective of the Intelligent Machines and Robotics Lab is to give machines the ability to interact intelligently with the external physical world. To create intelligent machines, we need to understand the combination of action (control), perception (sensing), and planning. Research in this area in the EECS Department at Berkeley involves five faculty members: Professor John Canny, Ronald Fearing, David Forsyth, Jitendra Malik, and Shankar Sastry, and more than thirty graduate students and post-doctoral fellows." Some areas of research include: Nonholonomic Motion Planning for Robots Millirobots for Minimally Invasive Surgery Computational Vision Assembly and Materials Handling - RISC Robotics Adaptation and Learning in Biological and Artificial Systems Air Traffic Mangement Systems Automated Highway Systems - PATH Grasping Lip Reading Other information available includes a listing of personnel, papers and publications, robotics demos and movies, robotics tools, and access to the UCB robotics FTP server. Return to the Table of Contents...