14 Online Technical Reports (Robotics)
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This article is from the Robotics FAQ, by Kevin Dowling nivek@cs.cmu.edu with numerous contributions by others.
14 Online Technical Reports (Robotics)
There are emerging sources on the net for tech reports and papers. If
you know of additional ones please send me email. Thanks.
"The Kahaner Reports"
This directory archives reports written about computing in Japan by
Dr. David Kahaner, a numerical analyst current on assignment with the
Office of Naval Research Asia (ONR Asia). The file INDEX contains a
short description of each report in alphabetical order. The file
INDEX.bydate contains the same descriptions ordered by the date the
report was written. See [25]japan.html, and [26]robotics Table of
Contents
Other relevant files are [27]Robots, an overview of trends in robot
manufacturing, use, and sales in Japan dated Feb 28, 1993.
Also,[28]robots.93 is a Dec 10, 1993 summary of the 24th International
Symposium on Industrial Robots (ISIR), the 1993 International
Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), and the 1993 International
Industrial Robot Exhibition, all held in Tokyo 1-5 Nov 1993.
"The 6.270 Robot Builder's Guide (See also the Miniboard section in
this FAQ)" by Fred Martin
[29]ftp://cherupakha.media.mit.edu/pub/6270/docs/ filenames: *.PS.Z
This directory contains "The 6.270 Robot Builder's Guide", the course
notes to the 1992 MIT LEGO Robot Design Competition. Hardcopy also
available for $15 from:
E and L Memo Requests
MIT Media Laboratory
20 Ames Street Room E15-309
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Check should be made out to 'MIT Epistemology and Learning' Contact:
Fred Martin at fredm@media-lab.media.mit.edu.
"Cambridge University" Tech report on 3D object model acquisition and
recognition: [30]ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/reports/
"Carnegie Mellon University SCS Technical Reports"
1. The machine reports@cs.cmu.edu is the offical SCS machine for
ftping SCS technical reports. Directories containing .ps files
(compressed and uncompressed, dependent on size) are stored for
ease of access. You can use the instructions below to browse the
directories.
2. The reports appearing in our ftpable directories are also
automatically transferred into MOSAIC. Authors retain the right to
decide whether their report(s) should or should not appear in the
public ftp directories/MOSAIC.
3. A third mechanism for storing and making reports available is
MERCURY--the scanned image, full text, online database (part of
the LIS system). Whether the report is scanned into the system is
again left up to invidivual author choice. The CMU community is
able to view text for the reports, as they appear, at their desks
using Mercury. This system, supported by ARPA and CNRI, will open
soon to MIT, Stanford, Cornell, and Berkeley...so we can all share
online text of reports. Down the road, it is anticipated that more
and more universities will become a part of this service. We scan
original copies of reports into the system,
URL: [31]ftp://reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu/ The reports are in
postscript format (.ps). The index file is called README.mss. The
reports are listed in the directory by their NUMBER.ps...for
example, CMU-CS-92-100.ps, CMU-CS-92-101.ps and so on. The
majority of the files are not compressed, although any compressed
files will be listed as NUMBER.ps.Z . A very few reports have been
broken down into multiple postscript files. They will appear as
NUMBERA.ps, NUMBERB.ps, etc. The README.mss will indicate the
reports that have multiple .ps files.
"MIT AI Laboratory"
net: publications@ai.mit.edu
tel: 617.253.6773
fax: 617.253.5060
MIT bibliography, general info about the lab and most recent research
publications is choice of ascii or .ps files
[32]ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/bibliography, and
[33]ftp://publications/ai-publications/general-pubs
"NASA Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL)"
[34]ftp://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/gat/ filenames: bc4pe.rtf,
aaai92.rtf, nats.rtf
Note that all files are in Microsoft Word RTF format. Contact
gat@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov if you don't have access to a Mac.
* "NRaD"
[35]http://www.nosc.mil/robots/pubs/PubsIdx.html
"New York University"
[36]file://cs.nyu.edu/pub/tech-reports/tr669.ps.Z
Abstract: Recent experimental and analytical evidence indicates that
direct drive robots become very practical and economical at miniature
and microscopic scales, so it is interesting to understand
quantitatively the properties of direct drive robots under scaling
transformations. This leads to a study of how screws and their dual
co-screws behave under the group of similarity transforms. This group
is the group of isometries together with dilations. Several different
representations are found on the space of screws and complementary
representations are found on the dual space of co-screws. From the
electromagnetic theory of the force and torque on a magnet in a
magnetic field, we derive the scaling properties of the
electromagnetic wrench. Hence, these results can be directly applied
to the scaling of direct drive motors. We conclude by proposing a
scale-invariant measure for direct drive actuator performance.
"LIFIA/INRIA"
Files are at: [37]ftp://imag.fr/pub/LIFIA (129.88.32.1) Several
compressed PS files.
"University of Massachusetts:"
[38]ftp://rabbit.cs.umass.edu/pub/. The files are compressed
postscript, topics include path planning, neuroscience, and control.
"University of Kaiserslautern"
FTP-Server is :
[39]ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/reports_uni-kl/computer_science/mobile_robots/
. Subdirectories: 1993/papers, 1994/papers, etc
"SPIE abstracts"
Abstracts from SPIE conferences can be found at
[40]ftp://mom.spie.org/abstracts/1800/ Filenames include 1831.txt
[From Mobile Robots VII 1992]. SPIE bookorders can be made through
bookorders@mom.spie.org
"JTEC report on Japanese Space Robotics"
A summary of the Japanese Technology Evaluation Center (JTEC) panel's
report on the state of the art of Japanese robot technology. Lots of
pictures of wierd and wonderful robots -- elephant trunk, caterpillar,
space tentacle, wall builder, Komatsu's walking undersea
rubble-leveler, humanoid two-armed assembly robot, 4-legged stair
climber. Also tells where to write for videotapes of these machines in
action. Here's the info (two years old, remember) ... Tape with
narration by William "Red" Whittaker: ""
University Video Communications
Box 20006
Stanford, CA USA 94309
tel: 415.327.0131
Cost: $37.50
A shorter tape is available of highlights from many Japanese labs.
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
5285 Port Royal Road
Springfield, VA USA 22161
tel: 703.457.4650
Article: "Japan robotics aim for unmanned space exploration" William
L. Whittaker, Takeo Kanade. IEEE Spectrum, December 1990
"Where Am I? Sensors and Methods for Autonomous Mobile Robot
Localization." Technical Report, The University of Michigan
UM-MEAM-94-21, December 1994.
A comprehensive survey on Mobile Robot Positioning. This survey is
over 200 pages long, has 130 illustrations and nearly 300 references,
and took well over one man-year to complete. The survey is entitled A
description and table of contents can be found [41]here.
To download the report go [42]here and read [43]this file first.
Alternatively, you can look at a detailed Table of Contents from
within Johann Borenstein's WWW Homepage at: [44]Johann's Home Page
Before you download the actual survey, you should read the
"readme.txt" file for compatibility tips, and you should read the
"um_index.wp5" file to see if you want to download all or only
selected chapters of the report.
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