| Arkin,_Ronald Regents' Professor and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. Interests include behavior-based reactive control, robot survivability, multi-agent systems, biorobot |
| Astolfi,_Alessandro Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College, London. Interests in Control Theory. |
| Balancing_Robot A biped robot capable of standing up on its own from a fallen position. |
| Barlas,_Omar A hobby robot that can pick up and move small objects. |
| B9Creations Mike Joyce's construction journal describing his progress on a full size replica of the "Lost in Space" B9 Robot and other homebrew robots. |
| Birk,_Andreas Professor heading robotics research at the International University Bremen (IUB). |
| Borenstein,_J_ Research Scientist and Head of the Mobile Robotics Lab within the University of Michigan's Department of Mechanical Engineering. Interests in mobile robots, obstacle avoidance, odometry, positionin |
| Brooks,_Rodney Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. |
| Bryan\'s_Robotics_Journal Weblog detailing Bryan's experiences designing and building his robot. |
| Burgard,_Wolfram Professor of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg and head of the research lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. Areas of interest lie in Artificial Intelligence and mobile robots. |
| Byrne,_Jeffrey Jeff Byrne is a robotics and computer vision professional, working on image segmentation, image aided navigation and visual collision obstacle detection for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned g |
| Chladny,_Ryan Describes Ryan's work on a large, hydraulic, autonomous, robotic vehicle. Includes related pictures and links. |
| Christensen,_Henrik_I_ Professor of computer science at Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm. Areas of interest include mobile robotics, autonomous systems, computer vision and biologically inspired robot systems. |
| Christoph\'s_Rug_Warrior_Page Tips and schematics to build your own Rug Warrior Robot. |
| Corky\'z_Robotz A small, remote-controlled robot made from a BASIC Stamp and common parts. Includes instructions, schematic and code listing. |
| Cricket_the_Robot Information on building an autonomous, walking robot. Includes schematics and code. |
| DaVinci_Robotics_Educational_Foundation Learn about the group's various robot projects. Also includes advice for those who wish to build robots. |
| Davison,_Andrew_J_ Lecturer in Computing at Imperial College London, carrying out research in real-time computer vision, robotics and SLAM. |
| Dillmann,_Rüdiger Professor at the Universität Karlsruhe with research interests in mobile systems, medical applications, interactive learning and humanoids. |
| Dratrobotics Photos and descriptions of the author's projects and robots, many of which are based on Lego Mindstorms. |
| Duckett,_T_ Researcher in Autonomous Sensor Systems. Assistant Professor at the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems at Örebro University in Sweden. Research interests include autonomous robots, machine |
| Dudek_,_G_ Professor at the School of Computer Science and Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM). Research areas include navigation, shape, mobile robotics, computer vision, vision, visualization, and recognitio |
| Elners,_Tom BEAM robots, hexapods, mini sumo, light seekers and circuits. |
| Four_Legged_Walker Walking robot using a BASIC Stamp 2SX and two Mini SSC servo controllers to control 12 servos. |
| Fox,_D_ Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington. His research interests lie in artificial intelligence and its application to mobile robotics, believing |
| Gutmann,_S_ Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan working in the Digital Creatures Laboratory on navigation for entertainment robots. Research interests include mobile robot self-localization, map-building, object recog |
| Harvey,_Inman Course directory for Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sus in Brighton, United Kingdom. |
| HexWorks A site about Hamlet, an hexapod autonomous robot. |
| Hirzinger,_Gerd Director, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR German Aerospace Center. |
| Hotze,_M_ A 3-servo hexapod with obstacle avoidance capability. Details the design, building process and programming, and shows movies. |
| Hudson,_Trammell Provides information on his work with the Autopilot UAV flight control project and links to other robotics sites. |
| I_R_BOT A six wheeled insect inspired robot based on the AVR microcontrollers. Site includes photos, diagrams, and software and brief notes on the use of neural nets and fuzzy logic with the robot. |
| Irobotics_India Gerard Sequeira's robots. Includes information on his fire fighting robot, a golf playing robot based on the PIC16F84A, and a line following robot. |
| John\'s_Robotics_Page Information on robotics in general and the author's own robot projects. |
| Kaelbling,_L__P_ Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT. Also associate director of the MIT AI Lab and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Machine |
| Kalyan,_Bharath Research interests include mobile robotics, specializing in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle navigation. Also has an interest in Nature Photography. |
| Kartoun,_Uri PhD student at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, with an interest in machine learning. He has publications and videos of robots such as ER-1, Motoman-UP6, Scorpion and CRS-255. |
| Kleeman,_L_ Associate Professor, Department Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Australia. Extensive list of online publications. |
| Konstantinos_Akalestos\'_Lego_Biped_Robot Shows the research and programming done for creating a walking robot that exhibits obstacle avoidance behaviour. The robot is constructed using Lego's Mindstorms and programming in C language using th |
| Kuipers,_B_ Professor and Chairman, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Research interests include the representation of commonsense and expert knowledge, with an emphasis on the |
Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group
The Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group is a team of University of Waterloostudents who, with the support of our sponsors, are developing a series offully autonomous flying robots for entry into the International Aerial Robotics Competition.The objective of this multi-year competition is to push the envelope oftechnology by seriously challenging students to accomplish near-impossiblemission objectives. The goal is to build a fleet of air vehicles capableof flying three kilometres, identifying target buildings, entering thestructures and navigating inside to obtain visual reconnaissance information.This must be done within a period of 15 minutes and without the help of any crew.WARG is led by the following people:ExecutivesPresident: Brent Tweddle and Jason DyckTechnical Leader: Brent Tweddle and Jason DyckSecretary: Jake LifshitsTreasurer: Yassir RizwanFaculty Advisors: Prof. David WangTechnical Council MembersFixed Wing Aircraft - Mechanical: Jason DyckFixed Wing Aircraft - Electrical: Robert HesseMulti-Rotor: Yassir RizwanYou can contact WARG by emailing warg@engmail.uwaterloo.ca.What's new: Winter Term 2007 Recruitment The recruitment meeting for the W07 term will be Wednesday Sept 19 at 6:00PM in DWE 2536. Spring Term 2007 Recruitment The recruitment meeting for the S07 term will be Monday May 7 at 5:30PM in DC 1304. Fall 2006 Recruitment Meeting WARG's F06 Recruitment Meeting will be held on Monday September 18 at 5:30PM in DC 1304. First Meeting of S06 Term We will have our first meeting of the S06 Term on Monday May 8, 2006 at 5:30PM in E2-2366. Email Accounts Changed All email accounts at warg.uwaterloo.ca have been closed including pr@warg.uwaterloo.ca. You can reach warg using warg@engmail.uwaterloo.ca. Recruitment Meeting All are welcome to attend Monday September 26, 2005 in DC 1404 at 5:30PM. WARG Maintains 2nd Place at IARC 2005 Read the details here. General & Sponsorship Info Available Online You can now download our General Info Package and Sponsorship Package online. WARG Travels to Georgia for International Aerial Robotics Competition The competition will be held from July 18Th to the 22nd. See the press release. WARG 2005 IARC Journal Paper Available for Download Our journal paper for the 2005 IARC competition is complete.Check itout here. WARG Programming Competition with CASH PRIZES!!!! Sponsored by the MathematicsEndowment Fund All math students (i.e. CompSci, SoftEng, Applied Math, ActScietc..) at the University of Waterloo are invited tocompete in a programming competition to identify windows inphotographs of buildings. The prizes are: 1st place $500, 2nd place $250,3rd place $100. Details of the competition can be found here. The deadlinefor submission is April 29, 2005. Canadian Student Summit on Aerospace 2005 WARG will be at the CSSA on January 28th to 30th at the University of Toronto. We will havean exhibit booth where you can meet the team. We will also be giving a presentation during the Student Speaker Series on WARG and the International Aerial Robotics Competition. See you there! WARG Programming Contest with CASH PRIZES!!!! This term (W05) WARG is holding a programming contest for all University of Waterloo Math Students (i.e. CS, SoftEng,PMath etc..). This contest will involve developing image processing algorithms to detect open windows on buildings. Cash prizes are being provided bythe Mathematics Endowment Fund. Furtherdetails will be available at our recruitment meeting on January25, 2005 at 5:30PM in DC 1303 and more information will be posted here shortly. Complete Success at 2004 Competition Here's a list of our accomplishments: First Place in 2004 (final scores) Level 1 Completed (3km fully autonomous flight out of visual range) Best Technical Paper (see below) We were informally commended by the judges and organizers on the stability and smoothness of our custom autopilot. On our successful Level 1 attempt we completed the 3km course in approximately 2 minutes and cleared one of the waypoints by less than 15 meters according to the waypoint judge. Over the next year we plan to build on this experience and implement the vehicles described in our paper, including a 4 meter wingspan fixed wing aircraft, an autonomously guided parachute, a 3-dimensional vision system and an indoor surveillance robot. We are also continuing to make excellent progress with our ducted fan VTOL aircraft. WARG 2004 IARC Journal Paper Available for Download Our journal paper for the 2004 IARC competition is complete. The paper outlines a network oriented multi-vehicleapproach implemented with a number of new vehicles for this year. Check itout here. WARG's First Fully Autonomous Flight Flies Perfectly! After our longest day of test flights ever (11 flights in one day), at 17:08 on April 23, 2004, our pilot switched our aircraft into fully autonomous mode for the first time ever. WARG members watched the aircraft fly from one GPSlocation to the next as different waypoints were selected on the base station. The aircraft maintained heading,elevation and airspeed all by itself (our pilot even took held his hands up in the air to prove it). WARG's fixed wing aircraft relies almost entirely on custom developed components. Everything from the printedcircuitboard, to the low level device drivers and the autopilot control software, was designed and implemented in house byWARG members in their spare time. Thissystem utilizes cheap components and costs WARG under $3500 CDN to purchase. WARG will continue to fine tune the aircraft for better performance and will begin reliability and endurance testing shortly. WARG Featured on the Discovery ChannelTuesday September 9, 2003 at 7:00 PM Eastern, the Discovery Channel will cover the Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group at the 2003 IARC Competition in Fort Benning, Georgia. Be sure to watch!Overview:The Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group is a team of University of Waterloostudents who are developing a series of fully autonomous vehicles (both air and ground).The goal is to have a fleet of robots that can work cooperativelytoward some predefined goal without help from any human crew. The robots are equipped with abilities to perform various tasks such as autonomous flight and navigation, mapping, visual recognition, and hazard detection. Links:How to get involvedAll about sponsorshipTheInternational Aerial Robotics CompetitionWorkshops and Design course topicsOur internal webpage - For members only. Problems, Questions, Comments? Please mail us.