International Society For Group Theory In Cognitive Science Group theory in robotics, ProblemSolving, Planning, Learning, Language, Perception, Art, Design, engineering, Manufacturing, Epistemology, Measurement, Computation, Neuroscience, Anthropology, Semiotics. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mleyton/GT.htm
ENGINEERING LIBRARY RESOURCES IN ROBOTICS Ask a Librarian engineering LIBRARY RESOURCES IN robotics. By James W. Clasper, engineering Reference Librarian Enginnering Library http://www.engrlib.uc.edu/resources/rob.html
Extractions: Enginnering Library, University of Cincinnati, 850L Baldwin Hall, ML #0018, (513) 556-1452 BOOKS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS dealing with Robotics can be located through UCLID. You can search UCLID by author, title, keyword or subject. General subject headings that can be used include: AUTOMATA; CYBERNETICS; HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; KINEMATICS; MACHINE THEORY; MANIPULATORS (MECHANISM); MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS; ROBOT INDUSTRY; ROBOTICS; For additional terms, use the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Robotics Institute: Gary Fedder Academic site. robotics Institute and Electrical and Computer engineering Associate Professor. http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/fedder_gary.html
Extractions: Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 For more information, see my personal homepage Jump to: Research interests Keywords Projects Publications Research interests Our research group designs, fabricates, and tests microdevices that are primarily made using a process in high conventional foundry CMOS is followed by simple micromachining steps. This process provides us with high-performance electronics integrated on chip with electrostatically actuated microstructures, capacitive and piezoresistive sensors, and polysilicon thermal heaters. Projects include micromechanisms for magnetic probe-based data storage, accelerometers and gyroscopes for inertial sensing, and ciliary sensors for tactile and acoustic imaging. Of particular interest is how large arrays of these sensors and actuators may improve overall system-level performance. Issues include system design and integration, distributed control and communication, and interfacing to the environment. MEMS are coupled multi-domain systems and, therefore, are difficult to design without expertise in a diverse set of fields. To address this problem in our lab, MEMS designers and CAD developers work closely together in a synergetic research environment. We are developing a multi-domain hierarchical design methodology to speed up the design cycle. A MEMS schematic is being developed in which mechanical, electromechanical, and electronic elements are graphically interconnected, resulting in rapid simulation and evaluation of designs. We are also modeling topologies for common MEMS applications, such as accelerometry, to codify design constraints for use in automated synthesis tools.
Extractions: Understanding the Context of Classical AI Reactive vs. Deliberative Strategies A Basis in Biology ... Multi-Agent Control As a design strategy, the behavior-based approach has produced intelligent systems for use in a wide variety of areas, including military applications, mining, space exploration, agriculture, factory automation, service industries, waste management, health care, disaster intervention and the home. To understand what behavior-based robotics is, it may be helpful to explain what it is not. The behavior-based approach does not necessarily seek to produce cognition or a human-like thinking process. While these aims are admirable, they can be misleading. Blaise Pascal once pointed out the dangers A Nomad robot used by many researchers to study behavior within a laboratory setting. think intelligently, the emphasis had changed to creating agents that could
Www.nexyad.com NEXYAD Private research lab involved in engineering, studies and consulting statistics, data analysis, signal processing, signal understanding, data mining, image understanding, vision, modelling knowledgebased systems, robotics. La Garenne Colombes, France. http://www.nexyad.com/
Extractions: The INEEL is working to develop a new class of robotic systems that can adjust their level of autonomy on the fly, leveraging their own intrinsic intelligence to meet whatever level of control is handed down from the user. These robots operate from a wide variety of platforms — from all-terrain vehicles to submersible robots or even whole colonies or "swarms" of interactive robots, each smaller than a human hand. The trait common to all these systems is the ability to share initiatively between human and machine, permitting the system to cope with interruptions in communication links, component failures, and changes in operator workload, resources, and mission requirements.
Robotics Institute: Kaigham Gabriel Academic site. robotics Institute and Electrical and Computer engineering Associate Professor. http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/gabriel_kaigham.html
Extractions: Pittsburgh, PA 15213 For more information, see my personal homepage Jump to: Research interests Keywords Projects Publications Research interests As information systems increasingly leave fixed locations and appear in our pockets and palms, they are getting closer to the physical world, creating new opportunities for perceiving and controlling our machines, structures and environments. To exploit these opportunities, information systems will need to sense and act as well as compute. Investing engineered systems with the ability to sense and act is the focus for my research activities in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). This section last updated - January 1999. Research interest keywords bioengineering display devices haptics human-computer interaction ... microrobotics , and tissue engineering Microelectromechanical Systems Laboratory - We are developing miniature sensor and actuator systems using integrated-circuit fabrication processes. Tissue Engineering - Applying the principles of biology and engineering to develop tissue substitutes to restore, maintain, or improve the function of diseased or damaged human tissues.
JHU Dynamical Systems And Control Laboratory This research is supported by the NSF under grant IIS9801684, by the NSF engineering Research Center for Medical robotics and ComputerAssisted Systems and http://robotics.me.jhu.edu/dscl/
Extractions: Dynamical Systems and Control Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins University Director: Louis L. Whitcomb Research Overview O Some additional photos are available Our research objective is to develop control algorithms to enable highly precise closed-loop maneuvering of underwater robotic vehicles. Closed-loop control of underwater vehicles is complicated by incompletely understood propulsor and vehicle dynamics, and the difficulty of state measurement (vehicle position and velocity) necessary for closed-loop control. Our methodology is to address these fundamental enabling theoretical issues for the next generation of remotely operated and autonomous underwater vehicles, and to experimentally verify our research results in actual working systems. Underwater Vehicle Propulsor Modeling and Control: We have developed the most precise reported finite-dimensional nonlinear model for the unsteady dynamics of marine thrusters, experimentally validated this model, and compared its performance all previously reported dynamical models. We are presently employing our models to develop and experimentally validate model-based adaptive thrust controllers for marine thrusters. To perform this research we have developed a thruster test facility providing precise high-bandwidth 6-axis force/torque sensing and acoustic doppler fluid flow sensing, as shown below. Supported by ONR under ONR Young Investigator Award N0014-97-1-0487 and NSF under CAREER Award BES-9625143.
Nikolaus Correll Information on electrical engineering, robotics, and computervision. http://www.correll.ch/
Robotics Institute: Angel Jordan Academic site. robotics Institute Keithley University Professor of robotics Institute and Electrical and Computer engineering, Emeritusin the robotics Institute and Electrical and Computer engineering. http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/jordan_angel.html
Extractions: Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Jump to: Biography Research interests Additional Interests and Responsibilities Projects ... Publications Biography BORN September 19, 1930, Pamplona, Spain; Naturalized American in 1966. ADDRESS: 5874 Aylesboro Avenue,Pittsburgh, PA 15217. PHONE: (412)421-2384 (Home); (412)268-2590 (Office); (412)268-5016(Fax); e-mail ajordan@cs.cmu.edu EXPERIENCE 1990-1997 University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 1983-1991 Provost. 1987-1988 Acting Dean, Mellon College of Science. 1986 Acting Director, Software Engineering Institute. 1983-1985 Acting President, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. 1979-1983 Dean, Carnegie Institute of Technology (engineering college). 1972-1980 U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. 1969-1979 Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).
Robotics Institute: Pradeep Khosla Academic site. robotics Institute Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of engineering and robotics. Department Head, Electrical and Computer engineering, Electrical and Computer engineering. http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/khosla_pradeep.html
Extractions: Pittsburgh, PA 15213 For more information, see my personal homepage Jump to: Biography Research interests Projects Publications Biography From January 1994 to August 1996 he was on leave from Carnegie Mellon and served as a DARPA Program Manager in the Software and Intelligent Systems Technology Office (SISTO), Defense Sciences Office (DSO) and Tactical Technology Office (TTO) where he managed advanced research and development programs, with a total budget exceeding $50M in FY96, in the areas of Information based Design and Manufacturing, Web based Information Technology Infrastructure, Real-Time Planning, and Distributed AI and Intelligent Systems, Real-Time Embedded Software, Sensor-based Control, and Collaborative Robotics. Professor Khosla's research interests are in the areas of internet-enabled distributed and collaboratve design, collaborating autonomous systems, agent-based architectures for embedded control, software composition and reconfigurable software for real-time embedded systems, reconfigurable and distributed robotic systems, and distributed information systems. His research is multidisciplinary and has focused on the theme of "creating complex embedded and information systems through composition of and collaboration amongst building blocks".
Queen's Univ. (Canada) - Dept Of Mining Eng. areas of research include rock engineering, stress modelling and measurement, mine planning, robotics, CAD, open pit design and simulation,blasting, mineral economics, new mining techniques, pressure oxidation, leaching, CIP RIP, and sulphide gold extraction. http://mine.queensu.ca
Of Course You Don't Understand, You're A Robot I know, I know, calling it robotics was sort of overkill, so now subtly renaming it engineering without telling anyone is sort of underhanded. http://splorg.org/~b/robo.html
Extractions: This here is my Engineering source page. I know, I know, calling it "robotics" was sort of overkill, so now subtly renaming it "engineering" without telling anyone is sort of underhanded. But that's what the web is all about. The point is, I don't really do robotics. I do engineering, and I should refer to my work as such. The point of this page is for me to collect, in one place, all the handy references I have discovered in my many-year escapade into engineering, and especially mechatronics, the fusion of electronics and mechanics through software. I'm not very good at it yet, mostly because so much of my time is spent on school. But I am learning. And the vast majority of what I've learned has been from reading other amateur engineers' home pages. So this is my attempt to 'give back' to the community online. The page is divided up into 4 sections, which I believe make sense given the description I gave for mechatronics above. The four sections may be more or less filled out than each other, depending on when you read this page. At the moment, by the way, it is the 3rd of February, 2001 - the longer it gets after that date, the more stuff this page will have. The four sections are: Mechanics All the cool stuff that moves and whirrs and hums and stress and strain and springs and sprockets and sprickets and sprongs. hee hee. Sorry for that outburst. The crown jewel of this is a collection of sources for materials, since most people don't know where to look.
Yoky Matsuoka's RI Page Personal site. robotics Institute Associate Professor, Mechanical engineering and the Center for Neural Based Cognition. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~yoky/
Extractions: Yoky Matsuoka, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute Mechanical Engineering Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition , and Biomedical Engineering (by courtesy) Address: Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Ave. Phone: Lab: Fax: Email: yoky 'at' cs.cmu.edu Education Neurobotics Lab Courses Students ... Other
NASA Glenn Research Center FIRST Buckeye Regional Features information for participants, volunteers, mentors, and sponsors of this highschool engineering contest held in Cleveland. http://www.firstbuckeye.org/
Robotics Institute: Yoky Matsuoka Academic site. robotics Institute Associate Professor, Mechanical engineering and the Center for Neural Based Cognition. http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/matsuoka_yoky.html
Extractions: Pittsburgh, PA 15213 For more information, see my personal homepage Jump to: Research interests Keywords Projects Publications Research interests See my Neurobotics Laboratory description for my research interests. Research interest keywords bioengineering control haptics human-computer interaction ... humanoid robotics , and medical robotics Neurobotics Laboratory - Investigating neural control of movement, brain-machine interface, and devices for rehabilitation, motor enhancement, and entertainment. Current Projects Anatomically Correct Testbed (ACT) Hand - We are building a dynamic model of the human hand that is anatomically correct. Feedback Distortion for Rehabilitation - We are developing a virtual environment with a robotic device to extend the strength and mobility of people recovering from strokes. Hand Exoskeleton - We are developing an exoskeletal hand for patients suffering from a loss of precise control in the upper limbs and hands.
Untitled Document Personal site. robotics Institute and Electrical and Computer engineering Associate Professor. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~agn/
Program In Robotics And Intelligent Systems Professor, Operations Research and Financial engineering, 2584657; alaink at soil.princeton.edu. Computer graphics, robotics, transportation system analysis. http://www.princeton.edu/~stengel/RIS.html
Extractions: The Program in Robotics and Intelligent Systems is designed for Princeton undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing careers or graduate education in two general areas: New industries and organizations depend increasingly on the interplay between engineering, computing, and the life sciences. Innovations and inventions require multi-disciplinary approaches and entrepreneurship, as well as grounding in theory and practice, in topics that may not be covered by a single department. The program offers an integrated set of core and elective courses, introducing students to fundamental concepts, providing depth in specific fields of interest, and setting the stage for further achievement. Students are encouraged to expand their experience through summer internships with companies, government agencies, and university laboratories. The program is open to juniors and seniors at Princeton University who have a satisfactory background in mathematics, science, and computing. Students should have successfully completed:
Newlands Engineering, Maidstone, Kent Precision engineering components for communications, robotics, medical, automotive, security industries. In Maidstone. http://www.newlands-engineering.co.uk/
