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Past FRC Projects

• 3D Grid Maps for Mobile Robot Perception - We are developing a 3D grid approach to robot mapping that loves clutter.
• Ambler - We are developing the Ambler, a six-legged walking robot that addresses the challenges of exploring rugged terrains, acquiring samples, and avoiding dangerous situations.
• Anthropocentric Robotics - The goal of this project is to improve human-robot interaction by using anthropological resesarch methods to study how people think about robots.
• As-Built Survey Project - We are investigating the real-time monitoring of construction sites.
• Asbestos Pipe-Insulation Removal Robot System - External pipe-crawling asbestos-removal robot
• Autonomous Cargo Trailer Transport System - automated system for handling USPS mail trailers
• Autonomous Rover Technologies - Pursuing breakthroughs and insights into fundamental aspects of robot perception, navigation, position estimation, and integrated exploratory science from a robot.
• Big Signal - We are developing multidisciplinary projects that allow the public to remotely experience places they could not otherwise visit.
• Daedalus - We deveopled Daedalus, a six-legged frame-walker with efficient redundant drive systems, for extreme terrain missions as part of the Lunar Rover Initiative.
• Dante I
• Dante II - Planetary Exploration
• EnviroBlimp - This project is investigating the use of a solar powered, autonomous airship for extended duration environmental sampling missions.
• Greenhouse Automation - Learning to Classify Plants Using Computer Vision
• Ground Pressure Measurement System - measures ground pressure as experienced by a land mine
• Highly Mobile Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle - Autonomous cross-country navigation
• Houdini - Reconfigurable in-tank mobile cleanup robot
• In-tank inspection mobile robot system - reconfigurable robot system for in-situ visual and ultrasonic inspections
• Inflatable Rover Technologies - We are developing inflatable rovers for exploration of extreme terrains.
• Lunar Rover Initiative - first interactive space exploration event
• Lunar Rover Navigation - Carnegie Mellon researchers are creating the prototype for a new lunar rover that can navigate rugged terrain autonomously and under supervisory control over thousands of kilometers of terrain. As part of this Lunar Rover Initiative, the LRD Navigation Group is developing the navigation system of the rover.
• Neptune II - Underwater Robot
• Operator Interface for Robotic Applications - an operator control station and interface which maximizes operator comfort and productivity
• Perception for Rock Sampling - We are developing a set of perception modules for extracting the potential samples from visual data, building models of their shapes, and using the models to pick up and store the sample.
• Ranger - We are developing a software control system for cross country autonomous vehicles called RANGER, for Real-time Autonomous Navigator with a Geometric Engine.
• Robotic All Terrain Lunar Exploration Rover - Ratler is a battery-powered, four-wheeled, skid-steered vehicle used as a testbed to develop the remote driving techniques needed for a lunar mission.
• Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search - Developing robots to search for meteorites in Antarctica, as an analog of a planetary exploration robot.
• Robotic soccer-ball kicking leg - experimental soccer- ball kicking robot for a large sports-shoe company
• Robust Navigation by Probabilistic Volumetric Sensing - We are developing sensor-based software for utility mobile robots used in industrial transport, floor maintenance, security, etc.
• Rosie - Robot for Decontamination and Dismantlement
• Skyworker - Skyworker is an assembly, inspection, and maintenance robot that will softly and autonomously transport and manipulate payloads of kilograms to tons over kilometer distances.
• Solar Blade Solar Sail - CMU is embarking on an effort to fly the first solar sail, a spacecraft that utilizes solar radiation pressure as its only means of propulsion and attitude control.
• Sun Synchronous Navigation - We are developing the algorithms, technologies, and experiments that will fulfill the vision of sun-synchronous circumnavigation.
• Terrain Mapping - We have developed an algorithm to build elevation maps from range images, accounting for the desired resolution and the current sensor orientation.
• Tessellator - Space Shuttle Tile Inspector