| Schools | Research Topics |
| Brown University | Has been dead for a few years, recently being ressurected but no content as of 6/12/06. |
| California Institute of Technology | Automated High Throughput Screening Pulsatile Jet Propulsion for Underwater Robots Multi-Robot Cooperation Sensor-Based Motion Planning and Sensor Processing Locomotion Rehabilitation Neural Prosthetics and Brain-Machine Interfaces |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Psychophysics of Haptic Interaction Teleoperation with a Twelve-DOF Coarse-Fine Manipulator Magnetic Levitation Haptic Consortium An Architecture for Agile Assembly Free-Roaming Planar Motors Robots in Scansorial Environments (RiSE) Dynamically-Stable Mobile Robots in Human Environments An Actuator with Mechanically Adjustable Series Compliance |
| Columbia University | Computational Tools for Modeling, Visualizing and Analyzing Historic and Archaeological Sites (NSF ITR Project) Building Geometic and Photometric Correct 3-D Models AVENUE: Autonomous Vehicle for Exploration and Navigation in Urban Environments GRASPIT! A Versatile 3-D Grasping and Simulation Tool Protein Streak Seeding Protein Crystal Mounting In-Vivo Surgical Imaging System Visual Servoing: A Partitioned Visual Feedback System Integration of Vision, Force and Tactile Sensing for Grasping |
| Gorgia Tech. Mobile Robotics | Mission-specification INterface for Objective Selection (MINOS) Visual SLAM (SAIC) NAVAIR Intelligent Autonomy Mobile Autonomous Robot Software 2020 (DARPA MARS-2020) Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (DARPA MARS) Segway RMP (related to DARPA MARS and MARS-2020) Future Combat Systems Communications Systems Integration and Demonstration (DARPA FCS-C SI&D) Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle (DARPA/SAIC) Tactical Mobile Robotics (DARPA TMR) Dynamic, Reactive LOS Communication Pathways Derived from Multiagent Robotic Assets (C.S. Draper Lab) Compact Map Building - 3D Models from Laser Data Behavior-Based Architecture for a Mobile Robot (HONDA R&D) Multiagent Robotic Systems Reactive Control for Multiagent Systems in Hostile Environments (DARPA RTPC) Ecological Robotics: A Schema-theoretic Approach (NSF) Low-Level Nuclear Waste Inspection (Savannah River) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (NSF and Army) Mobile Manipulation (NSF) Integration with High-Level Reasoning Learning and Adaptation in Autonomous Robotic Systems AAAI-94 Robot Competition (we won!) AAAI-97 Robot Competition (we won again!) |
| Harvard University | Analog Computation Choreography of Dynamical Systems Control of Quantum Systems Pattern Generation Robotic Manipulation System Identification Systems with Limited Communication |
| Johns Hopkins University | Robot and Protein Kinematics Lab |
| Manchester University | Mobile Robotics Humanoid Robotics Biologically Inspired Robotics Urban Search and Rescue Robotics Medical Robotics |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Bio-Mechanical Control Group |
Too many projects to list here. |
| Oxford University | Robot Sensor Systems
Manufacturing Mechatronics Medical Image Analysis Visual Geometry Visual Dynamics Active Vision |
| Stanford | Research Groups:
Geometric Computation Stanford Vision Laboratory The Robotic Manipulation Group Jean-Claude Latombe's Research Groups NOBOTS |
| University of California at Berkley | Medical Robotics Adaptation and Learning in Biological and Artificial Systems Air Traffic Management Systems ARO MURI Center - An Integrated Approach to Intelligent Systems Berkeley Aerobots Control of Hybrid Systems Micromechanical Flying Insect Micro-Robotics Motion Planning With Nonholonomic Velocity Constraints Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) Software Enabled Control Project Tele-Taction System UCB Computer Vision Group Virtual Environments for Surgical Training and Augmentation (VESTA) The Alpha Lab |
| University of Massachusetts | Quadruped Distributed Robotics Dexter Segway |
| University of Rochester | Anthropomorphic Roboic Systems
Human-Machine Interactions |
| University of Soulthern California | Interaction Lab Projects RESL Projects Player/Stage/Gazebo Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS-2020) Active Sensor Networks with Applications in Marine Microorganism Montinoring (ITR) Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Organization in Multi-Robot Systems (RIM) Scalable Coordination of Wireless Robots (SCOWR) Software for Distributed Robotics (SDR) Mobile Autonoumous Robot Software (MARS) Multi-Robot Task-Allocation through Vacancy Chains |
| University of Washington | Robotics, Control, and Mechatronics Researching Pulse Width Control Jointly with Bucknell (2005-2007) |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Active Stereo Reconstruction Visually Modulated Motion |