Research Robotics

Research

A great deal of research goes on today into advanced Robotics, as scientists and engineers try to create "better", more complex robots. Research involves both the theory behind robots, and their actual design.

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• - Specializes in sensor data fusion for mobile robots. Based at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey
  
• - Research topics include robotic systems, multibody dynamics, robust control, and control design engineering.
  
• - Research interests include construction of geometric and photometric correct 3D models, 3D grasping and simulation, micro-manipulation, visual servoing, visual control, model-based planning.
  
• - Provides information about the MIT Lego Robotics seminars. Site includes photos from past seminars, project lists, and links to resources.
  
• - University of Orebro, Sweden group specializing in topology-based maps, real-time deliberation, active perceptual anchoring, and fuzzy behavior-based control of mobile manipulators.
  
• - University of Ulm group with interests that include distributed mobile robot control, biometric multi-modal learning, and robocup robotics.
  
• - A group based in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bonn that studies Intelligent Autonomous Systems. Topics include robotic agents, structured reactive controllers, robot learning, planning, perception, and reasoning.
  
• - Group based at the University Stuttgart, Germany that work with cooperative planning and coordination of mobil robots.
  
• - Research areas include intelligent control and decision making; distributed, hierarchical, and hybrid systems and control; and fault tolerant control. Based at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.
  
• - The Case Western Reserve CAISR lab integrates robotics, neural networks, machine vision and other advanced technologies to create flexible, automated, intelligent systems.
  
• - Robotics Research department of The Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
  
• - Located at the University of Minnesota, research includes the coordination and deployment of multi-robot teams in various applications.
  
• - University of Texas group working on spatial semantic heirarchies, vision recognition systems, manipulators, and mobile robots.
  
• - Research topics include active vision, visual geometry, pattern analysis, machine learning, sonar imaging, sensor systems, and artificial neural networks.
  
• - Luleå University of Technology group specializing in telerobotics and models and algorithms for controlling the motion of robots using geometrical sensors.
  
• - Information on autonomous robot research and student robotics projects at the Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville.
  
• - This NASA Jet Propulsion Lab group performs research, development, and tests of mobile robots in support of planetary exploration missions and terrestrial applications for NASA and other Government agencies.
  
• - WCSAR is a NASA sponsored research center that helps with the commercialization of robotics, automation, and other advanced technologies.
  
• - Specializes in including manipulation, machine learning, navigation, vision, tactile sensing, and reasoning.
  
• - Lists robotics related activities at EPFL in Switzerland.
  
• - News and discussion site aimed at robotics research topics.
  
• - Part of the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. The primary goal of this lab is to advance the state-of-the art in the design and real-time control of smart systems such as robots and automated vehicles.
  
• - Northeastern University Marine Science Center program sponsored by DARPA and ONR. Focuses on autonomous underwater robots. Biomimetic neurotechnology is being used to create Lobster and Lamprey Robots.
  
• - R/AMeS is a Linköping University group. Research topics include model based inertial sensing, teleoperated robotics, mobile robots, and industrial robots.
  
• - Georgia Tech group developing robotics for poultry processing applications including computer vision systems, transport systems, and deboning robots.
  
• - Rocused on legged locomotion and dynamic legged robots. Site includes images, videos, and specifications for walking, running, and hopping robots including Troody the robotic dinosaur.
  
• - Describes research on tiny robotic flyers, called Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), being developed for military and civilian applications.
  
• - Research topics include robotics, computer vision, neural robotics skills, and navigation systems for autonomous mobile robots.
  
• - Provide an extensive list of walking machines developed in the robotics research community. You can browse and search for robots as well as submit your own walking robot via a web form.
  
• - Czech Research group that develops robots for competition using a variety of technologies. Site also provides local robot news and information for other Czech robotics researchers.
  
• - Research topics include Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), mini Air Vehicles (mAVs), Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPVs), Self Piloted Vehicles (SPVs), and other robotic aircraft.
  
• - Research includes development of simulation tools to improve the performance of industrial and service robotics.
  
• - Research center established in 1986 to provide manufacturing technological assistance for Kentucky's industries. Specializes in applied machine vision and industrial robotics.
  
• - Non-profit research center based at the University of Florida. Led by Robin Murphy CRASAR develops robotic technologies to assist search and rescue teams.
  
• - University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science group specializing in medical robotics, mobile robots, walking robots, sociable robotics, and evolutionary robotics.
  
• - IRIS is a University of Southern California group with a focus on molecular robotics, MEMS, programmable automation, computer vision, and mobile robots.
  
• - Specializes in telepresence, multi-agent systems, robotic collectives, tactile sensing, and dextrous manipulation.
  
• - Research efforts are directed towards visual perception of static and dynamic characteristics of the 3-D world (depth, shape, color, motion), object tracking, robot navigation and behaviour modelling.
  
• - Consists of understanding how you do work in space; with people, with robots and how the two work together.
  
• - Service Robotic research projects include volcano inspection robots, orange picking robots, climbing robots and microrobots.
  
• - Research interests include multi-modal telepresence and teleaction, neuroprosthetics, intelligent humanoid walking, and autonomous mobile robots.
  
• - University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign research project consisting of self-propelled and self-controlled hovercraft floating on a airhockey-type table.
  
• - AUSI is a not-for-profit research institute focused on promoting commercial applications of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), platforms and sensors.
  
• - Research topics include cognitive robotics, adaptive systems, cooperation, distributed real-time control, and goal-oriented navigation.
  
• - Based at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering in the United Kingdom. Research topics include interpretation of visual motion, robot guidance, face detection, speech recognition and speech synthesis.
  
• - The LPR at the University of Massachusetts Amherst conducts research on humanoid robots, grasping and manipulation, legged locomotion, networked sensors and motor services.
  
• - European IST project whose goal is to design an open, modular and generic software architecture for autonomous robotic systems diagnosis and control.
  
• - Russia's Central R & D Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (CRDI RTC). Research topics include robotics and cybernetics for space, air, terrestrial, and anti-terrorism applications.
  
• - University of British Columbia group specializing in decision-making, planning, reasoning, learning, object recognition, automation, mobile robotics, telerobotics, remote sensing, and geographic information systems.
  
• - Johns Hopkins University group specializing in kinematic studies of robots, metamorphic robots, and binary robots.
  
• - The European network for CLimbing And WAlking Robots. Site includes newsletter, conference calendar, information on task forces, and publications list.
  
• - October 2002 article detailing research into direct brain control of robotic prosthetic devices, by Miguel A. L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin
  
• - University of Delaware group whose research topics include dynamic systems, fabrication of novel robots, rehabilitation robotics, and precision farming machines.
  
• - At the University Berlin, Marvin, a descendant of the airplane-robot Tubrob is developed.
  
• - University of Illinois group based at the Beckman Institute. Specializes in robot vision technologies such as curved object recognition and structure from motion algorithms.
  
• - Project investigates the complex challenges surrounding distributed rovers, small basic agents interoperating to create emergent intelligent behaviour. Such systems can cope well in adverse situations, being composed of relatively cheap robotic devices wo
  
• - Mainly focused on the study of parallel mechanisms and articulated robotic hands.
  
• - Research topics include Kirchoff machines, robot locomotion, and vision. Site also includes information on the Stiquito six legged robot.
  
• - Research topics include multi-robot systems, surgical robots, telerobotics, computer vision, automation, and remote sensing.
  
• - University of Florida group specializing in UAVs, Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), and underwater robotics.
  
• - Aids the sharing of resources and ideas between robotics groups in Australia by summarising current projects and facilities throughout the country. Also has a list of robot-related events.
  
• - Focuses on building and testing a robot cognitive architecture. Also does research on intelligent agents for network security and intrusion detection.
  
• - Part of the Université Libre de Bruxelles Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Department that specializes in walking machines, gait control, micro robots, pipe robots, active isolation, and vibroacoustics.
  
• - Topics include agents, hybrid mobile robots, humanoid robots, haptic interfaces, and personal assistive devices
  
• - A robotic fish designed to learn more about the complex fluid mechanics that fish use to propel themselves. Site includes photos and video.
  
• - Topics include biological control systems, motor system control theory, biologically integrative sensors, and environment adaptive robotic systems. Site in English and Japanese.
  
• - Specializes in the dynamics of controlled system, mechatronics, robotics, and nanotechnology. IfR is part of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland
  
• - Research areas include mobile robots, obstacle avoidance, robot positioning, and robotic aids for the disabled.
  
• - CRES is the second largest robotics research center in the United States. Brings together more than eight USC robotics research labs.
  
• - DARPA funded project using many small robots for mapping and search missions. Site includes videos and publications describing the collaborative communications architecture used by the Centibots.
  
• - University of Tokyo research lab. Research project include various humanoid robots, soft-spine robots, artificial skin, gel robots, and motion planning.
  
• - University of Rochester group specializing in appearance based recognition, mobile robots, and the use virtual reality techniques in psychophysics experiments to learn about the human brain and the human visual system.
  
• - A research project at Carnegie Mellon University. It aims to commercialize robotics technologies in education, toys and entertainment.
  
• - Works on biologically inspired robotics, particularly the principle of embodied intelligence. The lab is transdisciplinary and includes researchers in the fields of computer science, mathematics, physics, biology, ethology, neurobiology, psychology, mech
  
• - Researches the use of evolution-based simulations to develop robot brains that can solve real-world problems when placed into a physical robots.
  
• - Based at the University of Köln in Germany. Research-topics include navigation for milling, manipulation of deformable linear objects, and safety strategies for human-robot cooperation.
  
• - Current focus is on the origins of language and robotic agents. Prior research projects include a robotic fish and other mobile robots.
  
• - The lab's charter is to discover and develop fundamental scientific principles and practices that are applicable to intelligent mobile robot systems.
  
• - Standford University lab specializing in telemanipulation with haptic feedback, biomimetic robots, and other tactile and haptic research.
  
• - University of Maryland group specializing in robots for education and entertainment, goal-based robotics and motion planning.
  
• - Research group based at the University of Leoben in Austria. Research topics include image processing, kinematics, machine learning, and industrial robotics.
  
• - University of Surrey lab researching robotic workcells, industrial robotics, sensors, and robot control.
  
• - University of Amsterdam group that studies methodologies to create intelligent autonomous systems, which perceive their environment through sensors and use that information to generate intelligent, goal-directed behaviour.
  
• - Specializes in topological simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques as well as the development of highly-articulated snake robots, painting robots, and demining robots.
  
• - Research topics include ambulatory robotics, mobile robotics, artificial perception, haptics, industrial automation, motor vision, and shape analysis.
  
• - Research areas include robotic systems and intelligent sensor systems.
  
• - Belgrade, Yugoslavia lab that specializes in robotic systems for contact tasks, intelligent control techniques, and kinematic aspects of robotic system control.
  
• - Specializes in robotics vision, autonomous systems, multi-sensor fusion, tele-operation, sensor development, motors and drives. Based at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal.
  
• - Gert conducts research in the field of robots and cyborgs.
  
• - Works with local Swedish Universities in the area of robotics, applied AI, fuzzy logic, neural nets, software engineering and management.
  
• - Researches ways in which autonomous robots - large and small; walking, climbing and flying - can be developed to 'do the right thing at the right time'.
  
• - Universitity of Zaragoza, Spain group that specializes in mobile robot localization, map building, navigation, multi-sensor fusion, sensor-based control, and manipulators.
  
• - ORNL is solving major challenges around the globe in advanced robotics and chemical process systems technology through a variety of research and development initiatives.
  
• - TheIRRC is part of the Computer Systems Engineering group of the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Research topics include robot navigation and machine perception.
  
• - Bibliography of printed and online information about the control of robot manipulators based on visual perception.
  
• - Research topics include environment mapping and path planning.
  
• - Research on design, modeling, control, and optimization methodologies for self-organized, collectively intelligent, distributed systems with special emphasis on multi-robot platforms, sensor and actuator networks, and intelligent vehicles.
  
• - Research into the issues relating to automation of mining. Projects include automated digital terrain mapping, undersea exploration and mining, and rapid roadway development. Based at The Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies in Australia.
  
• - Research into the fundamental mechanics of manipulation, the modelling of physical processes, and the minimum sensor information needed to accomplish a given manipulation task.
  
• - Non-profit research group specializing in aerial robotics, entomopters, and advanced flight behaviors.
  
• - CRI is a UNINOVA research group that specializes in sensorial systems, robotic systems, autonomous agents, and social implication of automation.
  
• - Researches the problem of vibration control in robotics through real-time control experiments and simulation.
  
• - Sandia National Lab group specializing in robotic vehicles, collective behavior for controller robot swarms, military robotic systems analysis, and massively parallel robot simulations.
  
• - University of California at Berkeley. Research topics include medical robotics, adaptation and learning, micromechanical flying insects, micro-robotics, and aerobots.
  
• - Lancaster University group specializing in mobile robots, construction robotics, control systems, and engineering structures.
  
• - AIROLAB is part of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. The lab specializes in the software aspects of agent design and implemented of agent architectures are on various robots.
  
• - Florida International University research group specializing in teleoperation, telesensation, mechatronics, and fault-tolerant systems.
  
• - University of Dortmund group specializing in multi-robot systems, space robotics, communication structures, and autonomously guided vehicles.
  
• - Information on projects by the ARSD, such as robots to assist astronauts during extra-vehicular activity.
  
• - Based at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm. The centre does research in (semi-) autonomous systems including mobile robot systems for manufacturing, domestic and outdoor applications.
  
• - A research group focusing on the development of intelligent, modular, and reconfigurable robotics and automation systems.
  
• - Helsinki University of Technology group specializing in mechatronics, perception, navigation, legged machines, and mobile robot societies.
  
• - Description of research and development of a robotic telepresence system by SRI to perform Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS).
  
• - Research topics include sensor based motion planning, robot locomotion, control theory, medical robotics, and modular robots.
  
• - Based at the University of Bielefeld. Main research topics include biorobotics, cognitive robotics, sensorimotor control, and parallel computation.
  
• - The goal of this project is to build an anthropomorphic two-armed robot combined with a multi-camera vision system. The geometry of the system was inspired by the upper part of a human body.
  
• - Research goal is to make robots more intelligent by teaching them to collect, interpret and use sensor information autonomously.
  
• - Established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Site includes links to a wide range of specific robots and labs.
  
• - Offers details regarding Carnegie Mellon University research initiatives and lists publications and related personnel.
  
• - IRIS is a part of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zürich (ETHZ), and focuses on integrating robotics with the research areas of robotic micro-manipulation, hybrid MEMS, biomanipulation and micromechatronic systems.
  
• - EU-IST project aimed at the study of new approaches to design and implementation of self-organizing and self-assembling artifacts.
  
• - Lund University Cognitive Science group specializing in mobile robots, autonomous learning, neural vision, and intelligence.
  
• - University of Alberta group. Research topics include dexterous manipulation, vision-based world modeling for mobile robot exploration, and collective robotic intelligence.
  
• - DARPA Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS) project. MARS involves research into multi-level learning in hybrid deliberative/reactive mobile robot architecture.
  
• - University of Sheffield group specializing in intelligent systems and control, nonlinear systems, and signal processing.
  
• - Projects include autonomous walkers, Palm-Pilot robots, motion and path planning, and motor control. Site also includes resources on Forth programming and Kalman filters.
  
• - Specialties include 3D object recognition, vision-guided navigation for indoor mobile robots, task and assembly planning.
  
• - Boston University group that specializes in medical robotics, structural dynamics, and mobile robot communications.
  
• - SPAWAR is a US Navy laboratory that has conducted research on space, land, air, and ocean robots since the 1960s.
  
• - Performs development, integration, and demonstration of innovative robotics and automation technologies, supporting NASA missions and addressing other problems of national importance.
  
• - Specializes in the field of automation technology including robotics, mechatronics and control of industrial processes.
  
• - This NASA group aims to advance the state of the art in ground operations and onboard autonomy for flight rovers by investigating the complex problems of autonomy in adverse environments.
  
• - Based at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, this group performs research into sensor based autonomous robotics, collision-free motion planning, and human-robot cooperation.
  
• - Research topics include architecture for multi-sensor integration and artificial perception, data fusion, active perception, and hierarchical multi-agents architectures.
  
• - Based at the Australian National University. RSL undertakes research projects with real robots working in the real world, in real time. Research topics include co-operative robot systems, mobile robot navigation, active vision, robot learning and human-r
  
• - Research is divided into three groups: industrial robotics, kinematics and simulations, and power electronics.
  
• - Research on developing a new class of biologically inspired robots that are substantially more compliant and stable than current robots.
  
• - Lists resources and software that have been developed as part of the CMU research project in multi robot control methods.
  
• - German National Research Center robotics group. Research areas include multi-robot cooperation, embodiment of cognitive functions in robots, and robot-environment interaction.
  
• - An interdepartmental Research Center of the University of Pisa devoted to the field robotics and bioengineering. The site includes research activities and researcher profiles.
  
• - ARRI is a University of Texas at Arlington research group specializing in design, analysis, simulation (discrete-event and kinematic) and prototype development of automated assembly, process, and material handling systems.
  
• - Part of the Center for Engineering and Science Advanced Research at Oak Ridge Laboratory. Specializes in multi-robot learning, cooperative, distributed heterogeneous sensing, mapping, path planning.
  
• - Research topics include multi-agent systems, manufacturing automation, intelligent mobile vehicles, dexterous robotic hands, vision, and sensing. Group is based at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  
• - Middlesex University group specializing rehabilitation robotics, control systems, robot positioning, and automation of hazardous processes.
  
• - Research groups include Adaptive Systems, Cognitive Robotics, Design Automation for Digital Systems, Innovative Application Design, Responsive Systems and Security Policies for Autonomous Systems.
  
• - Research areas include software agents, mobile robots, sensor-based navigation, and biomimetic robotics. Site in multiple languages.
  
• - Multi-disciplinary research group at Utah State University that focuses on the design, development, and implementation of intelligent, autonomous mechatronic systems.
  
• - Artificial vision and sensory-motor coordination from a computational neuroscience perspective. Experimentation is done with humanoid robots as well as basic research on artificial vision and robot control.
  
• - Based at Lehigh University. Site includes details of the group's Micro Air Vehicle research and design program.
  
• - Lab at Johannes Kepler University Linz researching topics that include suitable modeling and control approaches and control-oriented process analysis and design.
  
• - Research topics include human-robot teams, human-robot interface, mobile robot navigation, range-free perception-based navigation, sensory egospheres, and vision/image processing systems.
  
• - University of Cambridge Department of Engineering research group. Specializes in computer vision, speech processing, and pattern recognition.
  
• - A project of the Multibody Mechanics Research Group at the Free University of Brussels. Lucy was designed for research into the use of pneumatic artificial muscles for locomotion.
  
• - The goal of the institute is to develop, design, fabricate, test, and commercialize electrically and chemically controlled artificial muscles.
  
• - Site includes searchable bibliography, project list and other resources.
  
• - University of the Philippines Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department robotics lab. Primarly concerned with mobile robots as intelligent agents. Research areas included path planning and area mapping.
  
• - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology research group specializing in autonomous control of robots in uncertain and highly dynamic environments.
  
• - University of Sydney group concerned with the application of advanced control, sensing and systems engineering principles to the development of autonomous machines operating in outdoor, variable and hostile environments.
  
• - NASA group responsible for robotics and planetary rover research for the agency prior to 1997.
  
• - Engineers, computer scientists, and doctors work together at this lab to develop surgical robotics technologies.
  
• - A commercial research and development lab specializing in software intelligence, network connectivity, robotics, and man-machine interaction.
  
• - Research areas include multi-robot systems, robots performing 10,000 feet or more below sea-level, automation of commercial farming and mining equipment.
  
• - A discontinued group at University of Kaiserslautern that specialized in mobile robots, 3D sonar sensing, and 3D scanning.
  
• - Research topics include computer vision, distributed manipulation, and micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS). Based at the Computer Science department of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States.
  
• - Part of the University of Southern California Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems. Research includes multi-robot interaction, coordination, and communication; humanoid robotics; and software development.
  
• - Founded in 1983, HRL does research on the topics of robotic manipulation, choreography of dynamic systems, system identification, ananlog computation, and pattern generation.
  
• - Research on various statistical localization architectures, with focus on vision based systems done by David Yuen of the University of Auckland Robotics Group. Site includes description, presentations, and bibliography.
  
• - Dedicated to small autonomous mobile robotics research and robotics use in the curriculum at the University of South Alabama
  
  

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