The McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines, CIM, was founded in 1985 to provide researchers in robotics, computer vision, speech recognition, and systems and control with a context in which to pursue their common goal: the understanding and creation of systems which exhibit intelligent behaviour. The three main research foci are perception, robotics and control theory. The Centre now includes faculty members and graduate students from five departments: Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical, and Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, and the School of Computer Science.
The center itself does not have a degree program, rather students enroll in one of the associated departments and gain access by being supervised a faculty member who is also a CIM member. There are research programs directly related to computer vision, robot mechanical systems, walking machines, mobile robotics, etc.
CIM Members: J. Angeles, P.R. Belanger, M. Buehler, P.E. Caines, L. Daneshmend, R. De Mori, G. Dudek, F. Ferrie, J. Hollerbach, V. Hayward, D. Levanony, M.D. Levine, A. Malowany, H. Michalska, J. Owen, E. Papadopoulos, M. Verma, S. Whitesides, G. Zames, P.J. Zsombor-Murray, S.W. Zucker
Humanoid Research Laboratory (HUREL), Advanced Research Center for Science and Engineering
WWW: http://www.sm.luth.se/csee/er/sm-roa/
The Institute of Robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) constitutes about 40 members of staff (including Ph.D. students). The main research theme is Intelligent Interactive Mechines. That is to say developing intelligent robots that in cooperation with man solves difficult tasks. The institute takes its students from the departments of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science. Robotics lectures and project work is offered to undergraduate students. In addition there is the "Nachdiplom" in mechatronics (somewhere near a M.Sc.) where robotics is a central theme. For further details on the "Nachdiplom" see below. Finally there are about 30 Ph.D. students curently registered working on a variety of themes and projects. Institute facilities include: several different robot arms including the in house developed modular robot arm (MODRO), mobile vehicles including the in house developed modular mobile robot, walking machines, supercomputing facilities, dedicated vision and signal processing hardware, etc.
The head of the group is Professor G. Schweitzer.
Contact:
The Department of Artificial Intelligence has robot and vision groups within it.
Main interests of the robotics group include:
Contact the Admissions Secretary Judith Gordon
Principal Researchers
See School of Computer Science
Contact csdept@essex.ac.uk for further details of courses or
robots@essex.ac.uk for information on research. In addition some
useful information on the laboratory can be obtained at
ftp://ftp.essex.ac.uk/pub/robots/SXlab.ps.Z
Intelligent Autonomous Systems group
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/robotics
Brandeis has a program in autonomous agents, focusing on multi--agent
and multi--robot systems and machine learning, headed by Maja Mataric
For details on research directions and a photo of the available robot
herd see: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/dept/faculty/mataric
For graduate admission information see:
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/dept/grad-info/application.html
To get more information about the Volen Center for Complex Systems,
about the Computer Science Department, and about other faculty, see:
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/dept. For more information about the
cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience programs at Brandeis see:
http://fechner.ccs.brandeis.edu/cogsci.html
Graduate program contact:
The Robotics Institute also offers a
Robotics PhD
and students from other programs (e.g. engineering and computer
science) also do research in the Institute. Institute development
spans the spectrum from fundamental and basic research to development
and integration of complete systems for specific applications.
Research includes many aspects of mobile robots, computer integrated
manufacturing, rapid prototyping, sensors, vision, navigation,
learning and architectures. The RI PhD program is comprised of a set
of qualifiers and a program of research leading to a thesis and the
degree.
The many centers and laboratories include the
National Robotics Engineering Consortium (NREC), a facility and
organization devoted to technology transfer between laboratory and
companies. Facilities include about a dozen mobile systems with
more under design and construction. Facilities include over 2000m^2 of
offices and over 15,000 m^2 of laboratory and highbay
space. Facilities available include many mobile robots, manipulator
systems and lots of computer cycles/person.
People
Electrical engineering at CWRU is a broad, dynamic field
offering a great diversity of career opportunities in areas such as
microwave and rf communications, microprocessor-based digital control
systems, robotics, solid state microelectronics, signal processing,
and intelligent systems. The Department of Electrical Engineering and
Applied Physics offers Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Master of
Science in Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering, and Doctor
of Philosophy degree programs which provide preparation for work in
these areas. The department offers a minor in electrical engineering
for bachelor's degree students in other engineering disciplines as
well as a minor in electronics for bachelor's degree students enrolled
in the College of Arts and Science.
The Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Sciences offers BS, MS,
and PhD degrees under the department title. With a faculty of 18
tenured and tenure track members, the department annually receives
roughly a million dollars in grants; 116 undergraduate students and 70
graduate students are currently enrolled in ou r degree programs. The
computer science group within the department has a strong focus in AI
(symbolic and neural nets) and database and parallel processing syst
ems. The Mobile Robotics/Machine Perception Laboratory is a facility
devoted to basic and interdisciplinary research, technology transfer,
and hands-on education in artificial intelligence through robotics.
Research and technology transfer efforts concentrate on the reduction
of human risk in hazardous situations, stewardship of the environment,
and/or improvement of the quality of life throug h better
manufacturing processes. Research in the MR/MP laboratory is supported
by NSF, ARPA, NASA, and local industries.
For more information, please send email to Dr. Robin R.
Murphy, rmurphy@mines.colorado.edu. Include a brief summary of your
educational (with GPA) and work experience, what your research
interests are, and GRE scores.
For more information browse our web site at
http://crb.eng.clemson.edu or contact:
Approximately 25 Ph.D and Masters Thesis Students from both ECE and ME
departments.
Several robotics researchers are regularly involved in a
student aerial robot design competition in which concurrent
engineering concepts are being used to tailor the characteristics of
the system.{D. Schrage} This competition, held at Georgia Tech and
sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems, has been
won by Georgia Tech entries for two of the three years it has been
held.
Current research topics and researchers:
Iowa State University has one of the better visualization labs in the
country. The lab consists of mainly mechanical engineers and computer
scientists.
The Department of Computer Science offers graduate and
undergraduate courses in robotics, computer vision, AI and neural
computation. There is also a weekly robotics colloquim For admissions
information, contact karmen@cs.nyu.edu
Research (1994):
Here's a pointer to Purdue's Robot Vision Lab
Faculty
Mechanical Engineering:
Faculty:
Umich robotics work can be found at
Umich Robotics
Contacts
Faculty
This Master of Science program prepares graduates for the future of
manufacturing engineering. Emphasized areas include manufacturing as
an international enterprise, and information engineering, with
concentrations in specialties including multimedia, CAD for rapid
prototyping, electronic packaging, magnetic recording, and
manufacturing management. Classroom teaching is transferred into a
practical format and weekly seminars. A nine month internship is a
key part of the practical track for this Program. Students have been
placed in internships with companies such as Sony, Hewlett-Packard,
Qualcomm, Alcoa Electronic Packaging, Kyocera America, Maxtor
Corporation, Spectragraphics, StorageTek, and Valor Electronics.
Financial aid is available. Preferential assistance will be given to
displaced defense industry professionals.
For information on applying to the Program, or accessing an intern for
your company, e-mail
PAM@ece.ucsd.edu or contact
Vivian Shinmoto at 619-534-7398.
MS program seeks to prepare students for a career in the
application of Computer Science to design, manufacturing, and
robotics. It also serves as an introduction to this area for students
who wish to pursue advanced studies and research leading to a Ph.D. A
major goal is to produce a steady stream of graduates who are
qualified to tackle challenging problems in the development of
software for CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing) and
robotics.
There is a strong focus on designing and building within the program
Exposure to the practical aspects (and difficulties) of robotics and
automation is strongly encouraged through laboratory work, and an
optional thesis, conducted in collaboration with industry and research
laboratories.
See also http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/robotics/home.html
For additional information, a complete set of degree requirements,
and application materials, contact our Student Coordinator:
A Brochure can be obtained from:
The Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Notre Dame offers several courses which are directed
toward an fundamental understanding of the mechanics, kinematics,
estimation and control theory, and computer programming which are
important considerations in the design of robotic systems. Of special
interest is a novel approach for achieving robust and precise
vision-based control of manipulators - "camera-space manipulation".
Doctoral recipients >from this program are teaching and doing research
in tenure-track positions at US universities. For more information,
see, on the World-Wide Web:
Skaar Home.html
AME HomePage.html
or contact Prof. Steven B. Skaar, Director of Graduate Studies,
steven.b.skaar.1@ND.EDU
Research in Vision-Based Robotics Using Estimation
The multimedia monograph discusses recent experimental and
theoretical work conducted at the University of Notre Dame aimed at
using methods of estimation to achieve accurate, robust and reliable
vision-based guidance of various kinds of mechanisms, including
typical holonomic robots, fork-lifts and other vehicles. The
monograph is divided into two parts: Part 1 discusses the method of
"camera-space manipulation" and is in the early stages of development.
Part 2 discusses vision-based navigation of a vehicle. Both parts
include several QuickTime movie illustrations of existing experiments,
and part 2 includes 3-D animations for illustration of principles.
UT Arlington is located in the heart of the Dallas / Ft. Worth
metroplex. The EE department current has 33 faculty and the CSE
department has 20 faculty. Participating students will also be able
to conduct research at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute
located in Ft. Worth.
Hands, manipulators, biomedical applications, teleoperation. Micro
electro-mechanical systems design.
Faculty
Wilkes University is a small,
private university located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Despite its
size, Wilkes is well equipped with robotics laboratories and has two
faculty (
Dr. C.R. Mirman
Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and
Dr. M.R. Stein,
Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Pennsylvania) to sponsor
graduate robotics research. Robotics is an integral part of the
undergraduate Mechanical Engineering curriculum, and may be a topic
for graduate study in Electrical Engineering. Wilkes offers a BS in
Mechanical Engineering and an MS and Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering.
See also their
Robotics and Automation page.
ftp://ftp.cs.ualberta.ca/pub/kube/whosWho
and is also available on the Web as:
http://www.sm.luth.se/csee/ra/sm-roa/Robotics/WhoSWho.html
The list is a good starting point for those interested in graduate
programs and for those looking for individuals with similar research
interests.
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, England
University of Essex
Brooker Laboratory for Intelligent Embedded Systems
email: robots@essex.ac.uk
Main interests of the laboratory:
Principal Researchers:
In addition to PhDs by research, there is a one-year, taught, Masters
course in Computer Science where it is possible to undertake
robotics, AI or vision.
University of the West of England at Bristol
(used to be Bristol Polytechnic)
Undergraduate Robotics is taught as part of undergraduate programs in
engineering courses and as part of a real time computing course. The
engineering department has in its teaching labs Puma, Adept, IBM,
Cincinatti-Milacron and Funac robots.
Intelligent Flexible Assembly Technology (InFACT/ALASCA Group):
Eureka/FAMOS Projects (EC colaborative project - academic and
Industry) The group has a large gantry based robot designed and built
by the group.
Bristol University
Faculty
Mr Khodlebandelhoo
Hull University
Faculty
Prof Alan Pugh
University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science
The web page below describes research in mobile robotics in the areas
of autonomous competence acquisition, learning by tuition and
navigation. Papers are also available at this site.
University of Oxford
Robotics Research Group
The Robotics Group currently comprises about seventy academics,
postdoctoral research staff, overseas visitors, and graduate
students. A broad range of topics in advanced robotics is studied
in collaboration with industry and government establishments
throughout Europe.
Reading University
Faculty
Salford University
http://WWW.salford.ac.uk/
or robotics work more directly at:
http://WWW.salford.ac.uk/docs/depts/eee/homepage.html
Faculty
Tele-presence. Possible studies at PhD and MSc and courses at undergraduate level.
University of Surrey
Mechatronic Systems and Robotics Research Group
Faculty
United States
Boston University
Dept. of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
People
Brandeis University>
Waltham, MA
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
For more detailed information on robotics research at Caltech see
http://robby.caltech.edu/
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
The Robotics Institute is the
world's largest academic organization devoted to robotics. The
Robotics Institute (RI) has over 45 full-time faculty, over 100
technical staff, 150 graduate students (90 in the RI program) and 25
visitors and post-docs. The Robotics Institute is part of CMU's
School of Computer Science
Case Western Reserve University
Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics
Glennan Building
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Phone (216)368-4088
Fax (216)368-2668
See file://alpha.ces.cwru.edu/pub/agents/home.html
Colorado School of Mines
Mobile Robotics/Machine Perception Laboratory
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
The Colorado School of Mines is a state university,
internationally renowned in the energy, materials, and resource
fields, attracting outstanding students in a broad range of science
and engineering disciplines. The School of Mines is strongly
committed to quality teaching and research. CSM provides an attractive
campus environment, a collegial atmosphere, relatively small size
(3000 students, about 30% in graduate programs), and an ideal location
in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains 13 miles from downtown Denver
and an hour from most ski areas.
Clemson University (CU)
Graduate program contact:
Robotics and Mechatronics (RAM) Laboratory
Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Clemson University
Clemson SC 29634
Lab Phone: 864-656-6988
Fax: 864-656-7220
Dr. Darren Dawson (ECE)
ddawson@eng.clemson.edu
Tel: (864) 656-5924
Fax: (864) 656-7220
http://crb.eng.clemson.
edu/advisor/dawson.htm
Dr. Chris Rahn (ME)
cdrahn@eng.clemson.edu
Tel: (864) 656-5261
Fax: (864) 656-4435
http://www.eng.clemson
.edu/~cdrahn/resume.html
Summary of Laboratory Activities
Electrical and Computer Engineering RAM Personnel
Mechanical Engineering RAM Personnel
RAM Research Facilities
RAM Research Thrust Areas
Cornell
Ithaca, NY
Mechanical Engineering
Bruce Donald
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
Georgia Institute of Technology Robotics Activities
See also: MRLHome.html
Application study areas include:
Robot applications are in areas such as manufacturing {K. Lee} poultry
processing {W. Daley, G. McMurray, J.C. Thompson} and nuclear waste
inspection and cleanup {R. Arkin, W. Book, S. Dickerson, T. Collins,
A. Henshaw} are underway.
Harvard
Roger Brockett
Iowa State University
Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology
Ames, Iowa 50011
See also: http:// www.vislab.iastate.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science both have strong
robotics efforts. Asada, Slotine, Brooks, Raibert and others
are known and respected for their work in direct-drive arm, control
techniques, architectures, running machines etc.
New York University (NYU)
NYU's Department of Computer Science home page is at:
http://cs.nyu.edu/
Degrees:
We offer Ph.D. and MS in computer science. Ph.D. students may
work thesis research in robotics. MS students may work on a thesis
(as a substitute for one course). All graduate students are eligible
to enroll in Advaned Laboratory and work on a project in robotics.
Qualified undergraduates may take Independent Study.
Faculty:
What is Multimedia Robotics?
"Multimedia Robotics" is a new area of computer science concerning
new markets for robotics technology, emphasizing the emerging
areas of virtual reality and telepresence, animation and
entertainment, and bioscience material processing.
Research underway at NYU represents each of these four areas.
North Carolina State Univerisity
Raleigh, NC
Professor Ren Luo
tel: 919.515.5199
Northeastern University>
Boston, MA 02115
The Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) of Northeastern
University is pleased to announce its presence on the World Wide Web
at MSEL Home Page
MSEL is a small, internationally-known lab that focuses on research in
ocean engineering, in particular autonomous underwater vehicles
(AUVs). AUVs are unmanned, untethered submersibles that are capable
of carrying out missions autonomously. MSEL developed one of the
first AUVs, EAVE-EAST. Currently, the EAVE AUVs are in their third
generation, the EAVE-III vehicles. The lab maintains two EAVE-III
vehicles for both single-agent and multiagent research. The lab is
also developing a long-range AUV (LRAUV) for extended full-ocean depth
missions.
We have active research programs focusing on intelligent AUV control,
AUV control architectural issues, long-range AUV development for ocean
science applications, and multiple AUV systems and cooperative
distributed problem solving.
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Rennsalear Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Faculty
About 20 PhD and 30 MS students. Path planning and multi-arm control
are current focus.
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.stanford.edu/
CS Department:
Aerospace Robotics Laboratory:
University of California at Berkeley
Faculty:
Deparment of EE&CS
Dept. of Optometry/EE&CS
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
University of Kansas
Space Technology Center (Telerobotics)
University of Kentucky
Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems
(founded 1990)
University of Massachusetts
Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics
Computer Science Department
www: http://piglet.cs.umass.edu:4321/lpr.html
The lab is equipped with two General Electric P-50 robots, two GE
A4s, a Zebra Zero, and a Denning mobile platform. In addition, the
P-50s are fitted with a 4-fingered Utah/MIT and a 3-fingered
Stanford/JPL* dexterous hand, respectively. The lab includes
VxWorks distributed VME controllers and an experimental real-time
kernel (Spring kernel). Research conducted at the lab includes:
The laboratory also engages in collaborative research with the
Computer Vision (A. Hanson, E. Riseman, directors) and Adaptive
Networks (A. Barto, director) groups within the department.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science are
relevant to robotics research. Research includes includes machine
vision, systems and control, multiple cooperating agents (arms and
mobile), and application of SOAR to robots (arms and mobile) in
conjunction with SOAR groups at CMU and elsewhere.
University of Pennsylvania.
UPenn offers Masters and PhD programs in Robotics and Robotics related
fields of study. These programs are offered through the Departments of
Computer and Information Science, Systems Engineering, and Mechanical
Engineering and Applied Mechanics. The bulk of the robotics research
is conducted in the inter-disciplinary General Robotics and Active
Sensory Perception (GRASP) laboratory.
GRASP Web
SiteActive areas of research are Telerobotics, Multiple Arm
Control, Robotic Vision, Learning Control, Multi-agent Robotics and
Mechanical Design.
University of Rochester
Computer Science Department
Well known Computer Vision group. See the following web pages:
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jag/PercAct/dvfb.html
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jag
University of Southern California (USC)
USC has a new MS Program called: Master of Science in Computer Science
with specialization in Robotics & Automation
Computer Science Department
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781
tel: 213.740.4499
net:
About twenty other faculty member associated with the Institute for
Robotics and Intelligent Systems and many others associated with
USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI).
IRIS, Dept of Computer Science
Powell Hall Room 204
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0273
Internet: goldberg@usc.edu
University of Maryland
Faculty
Facilties include a large neutral bouyancy tank, and a number
of free-flying teleoperators used underwater in the NBT. Much
teleoperations research. Dave has flown shuttle experiments and his
research is in the areas of teleoperation, control, man-machine
interaction and is one of the very few in the robotics community to
fly hardware in space.
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, Indiana
The University of Texas at Arlington
F.L. Lewis
Automation and Robotics Research Institute
University of Texas at Arlington
7300 Jack Newell Blvd S
Ft. Worth, TX 76118
tel: 817.794.5972
fax: 817.794.5952
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mechanical Engineering & Electrical Engineering
Faculty
Computer Science:
Wisconsin Center for Space Robotics and Automation (WCSAR)
Interdepartmental NASA center: work is done on various applications
of robotic systems for space.
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Steve Jacobsen
Center for Engineering Design
3176 MEB
Yale University
There is a broad spectrum of research activities in vision and
robotics at Yale. The members of this group include faculty from
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Psychology, Neuroscience,
and the Yale Medical School. Active areas of research include
machine vision, humanand computer object recognition, geometric
reasoning, mobile robotics, sensor-based manipulation, control of
highly dynamic nonlinear systems, planning, and learning. There is
also a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary work integrating robotics
and machine vision.
Wilkes University
Wilkes-Barre, PA
[6.2] Student Who's Who
An useful additional source of information is the graduate student
guide compiled by Ron Kube
Last-Modified: Sun Nov 10 12:20:57 1996
Kevin Dowling <nivek@cmu.edu>