39 What other Organizations are working with robotics? Educational Organizations
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This article is from the Robotics FAQ, by Kevin Dowling nivek@cs.cmu.edu with numerous contributions by others.
39 What other Organizations are working with robotics? Educational Organizations
This list is a small fraction of companies and other organizations
that are actively working in robotics. One way to obtain more
companies is to search through proceedings of conferences or find
member companies of many of the organizations listed in previous FAQ
sections. Industrial robotics is used widely throughout a number of
companies. Most large aerospace companies have groups working in or
looking into robotics. Lockheed Martin (Denver), Rockwell
International (Downey, CA), Boeing (Seattle) to name a few.
Educational Organizations (Not Universities)
"KISS Insitute for Practical Robotics (KIPR)"
10719 Midsummer Drive
Reston, VA 22091
contact: Dave Miller
tel: 703.620.0551
fax: 703.860.1802
net: [41]kipr@src.umd.edu
url: [42]http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/dmiller/kipr/kipr.html
KISS Institute for Practical Robotics is a private non-profit
educational corporation. As an organization dedicated to promoting
education and utilization of practical integrated robotics, KISS
Institute provides an umbrella for conducting joint research
projects, dispersing information, and teaching courses involving
members from many different home institutions.
"Computers, Robotics and Artists Society of Houston [CRASH]" See
[43]CRASH
Research Centers
"Advanced Robotics Research Centre"
Salford, UK. The Advanced Robotics Research Ltd (incorporating the
National Advanced Robotics Research Centre, UK) is a joint UK
Government and UK Industries funded research organisation involved
in the research of enabling technologies for the advanced robotics
systems.
"Automation and Robotics Research Institute (ARRI)"
7300 Jack Newell Blvd. South
Ft. Worth, Texas 76118
tel: 817.794.5900
"Mechanical Engineering Lab (MEL)"
Tsukuba City, Japan Kazuo Tanie: Robotics and cybernetics
"Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), AIST, MITI."
1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan.
General description:
ETL is a govermental institute with about 630 staffs and annual
budget of over 10 billion yen including personnel expenses,
covering a broad area related to electronics, physics, material
sciences, device technology, energy technology, standards and
measurements technology, bio-electronics, information science,
computer science, computer systems, artificial intelligence,
and robotics. Gopher host: [44]gopher://etlport.etl.go.jp
Robotics group:
Intelligent Systems Division covers robotics and related areas.
It consists of following sections; Intelligent Machine
Behavior, Autonomous Systems, Computer Vision, Interactive
Interface Systems, and Communicating Intelligence.
The robotics group in the division foucuses on intelligent
robots and system integration. Its current research topics
include, but not limited to, Dextrous manipulation, Motion
planning, Active vision, Multi-sensor fusion, Multi-fingered
hands, Hand-eye systems, Mobile robot navigation,
Multiple-robot cooperation, Intelligent teleoperation,
Learning, and Architecture.
The robotics group at ETL has continuously been at the frontier
of intelligent robotics research.
PostDoc positions:
ETL accepts postdoctoral research fellows from all over the
world. Mainly two support programs are available: STA
fellowship and AIST fellowship. They require a doctoral degree,
age no greater than 35, fluency in Japanese or English, etc.
Typical research period is one year (2 yrs max.). The
fellowship includes a basic allowance (270,000yen/month) plus
family allowance (50,000yen/month), housing cost, and a round
trip air ticket (1 person). The fellowships are highly
competetive and have different application procedures depending
on an applicant's nationality. Those who are interested should
contact their local governmental agency for international
research cooperation (such as NSF in USA). A more convenient
way might be to catch a member of ETL staff at some conference
and inquire about the fellowships.
Graduate Summer Institute Program:
ETL is a member of the graduate summer institute program. The
robotics group hosts a couple of guest student researchers
every summer. The Graduate Summer Institute program is based on
Japan-USA contract on research cooperation in science and
technology. It is open for graduate students in the USA who are
majoring in science and technology fields.
The aim of the program is to provide opportunities for the
students to get acquainted with Japanese culture, science and
techonology, and to promote future collaboration in research in
science and techonology. Here is some data from last year's
example.
Period: 2 months (Late June -- Late August).
Program (subj. to change): Japanese classes. Research at host
institutes. Lectures, Meetings, Going to Kabuki, Kyoto
tour, Official Receptions.
Support: Return air ticket, domestic transportation,
accomodation, japanese classes, tours.
Contact: Japan Programs, Division of International Programs, NSF.
"Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Groforschungseinrichtungen (AGF)"
(Association of National Research Centers)
Wissenschaftszentrum
Ahrstrae 45
Postfach 20 14 48
53144 Bonn
tel: (02 28) 3 76 74-1
fax: (02 28) 3 76 74-4 [45]http://www.gmd.de/AGF-Anschriften.html
These are sixteen research centers in Germany. One of the research
centers is GMD and they do robotics. GMD is at
[46]http://borneo.gmd.de/AS/janus/pages/janus.htm
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
"NASA Headquarters"
NASA Headquarters, Washington DC. Contact: Dave Lavery email:
dave.lavery@hq.nasa.gov, URL: [47]Dave Lavery Home Page
The ongoing NASA robotics research program develops autonomous,
semi-autonomous and teleoperated systems and technologies for
applications in Earth orbit and on planetary surfaces. Technology
efforts are focussed on local autonomy, dexterous manipulation,
task-level command and control, and contending with extremely harsh
environments.
[48]NASA HQ Telerobotics Home Page
"NASA Ames Research Center"
Moffet Field, CA.
I, TROV and Ranger projects. [49]http://maas-neotek.arc.nasa.gov/
"NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)"
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Contact: Stephen Leake Since the cancellation of the Flight
Telerobotic Servicer (FTS), the Robotics Lab has been concentrating
on work in the area of automated space craft servicing. The goal is
to replace or supplement Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) with
teleoperated or semiautonomous robotic systems for external vehicle
maintenance. Current project includes a robot to assist in second
Hubble servicing mission.
"NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory"
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA
Contact: Chuck Weisbin, The JPL robotics efforts concentrate on
development, integration and demonstration of A&R technologies, with
a focus on plantary surface systems and autonomous mobile rovers.
[50]NASA JPL Robotics Home Page
"NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC)"
Houston, TX
Contact: Charles Price More of an operations house but lots of
shuttle RMS work. A number of robot projects including testing of
space station manipulator systems happens at JSC.
[51]http://tommy.jsc.nasa.gov
"NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC)"
Robotics Group
Contact: Bill Jones [52]http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/ksc.html
Like JSC, KSC is an operations house with responsibility to keep
shuttles flying and integrate payloads. There is a small but growing
robotics group that is emplacing ground support robotics
applications. Recent work includes filter inspector for launch pad
payload areas, shuttle radiator inspector and a mobile system for
thermal protection system tasks.
"NASA Langley Research Center, (LaRC)"
Hampton, VA Contact: Jack Pennington - vision, inspection, 3-D
sensors [53]http://www.arc.nasa.gov/
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