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This article is from the Robotics FAQ, by Kevin Dowling nivek@cs.cmu.edu with numerous contributions by others.

51 Graduate Programs in Robotics part6 United States: University ofMassachusetts

"Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics"
Computer Science Department
www: [96]http://piglet.cs.umass.edu:4321/lpr.html

"Faculty:"

Rod Grupen
Robin Popplestone

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:

* controller composition for coordinating multiple robots
* grasp planning
* geometric reasoning for robust assembly & fine motion control
* learning for admittance control & path optimization
* biological models of motor planning
* proprioceptive, tactile, & visual model acquisition
* trajectory planning, coarse reaching
* state-space decomposition

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.

 

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