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Current FRC Projects [Past Projects]

• Advanced Sensor Based Defect Management at Construction Sites - This research project builds on, combines and extends the advances in generating 3D environments using laser scanners.
• Amelia - An improved Xavier
• Autonomous Ground Vehicle Design - Pursuing high speed navigation of unrehearsed terrain in pursuit of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
• Autonomous Mobile Assembly - The ACE project is concerned with autonomous mobile assembly.
• BeatBots - We are developing robots that can participate in coordinated rhythmic social interactions with people.
• Big Signal - We are developing multidisciplinary projects that allow the public to remotely experience places they could not otherwise visit.
• CTA Robotics - This project adresses the problems of scene interpretation and path planning for mobile robot navigation in natural environment.
• Cognitive Colonies - We are developing the basic principles that will best govern a group of robots trying to do useful work in difficult and hazardous environments.
• Cyberinfrastructure for Human-Robot Interaction Research - We seek to provide the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) with collaborative mechanisms and methods for evaluation and exploratory analysis.
• DEPTHX: Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer - The DEPTHX: Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer project is developing an autonomy for underwater explorers to enable them to map their environment and plan and execute science investigations. The DEPTHX vehicle will explore the flooded caverns of the Zacaton Cenote in Mexico in 2006.
• Dismount Control Project - We are deveopling Dismount, a system used to track position of an individual and programming a robot to follow it.
• Distributed Robot Architectures - The primary objective of this project is to develop fundamental capabilities that enable multiple, distributed, heterogeneous robots to coordinate tasks that cannot be accomplished by the robots individually.
• EMBER - The Ember project uses multi-agent teams, comprised of autonomous and human agents, to achieve effective results under emergency situations.
• EventScope - EventScope's goal is to develop a teaching tool that lets students actively explore 3D representations of NASA mission sites while participating in a cross-disciplinary curriculum that illustrates scientific theories and principles with real-world data from the site.
• Expeditionary Target Identification and Exchange System - we are developing ETIES, a modular software system that provides for target identification, handoff, and engagement.
• Ferret - We have developed a mine mapping robot.
• Google Lunar X Prize - We are part of a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send images and data back to the Earth.
• Grace - The Grace project is a collaboration among several schools and research labs to design a robot capable of fully performing the AAAI Grand Challenge.
• Human Odometer - We are developing the Human Odometer - a system designed for situational awareness for firefighter tracking.
• LORAX: Life on Ice, Robotic Antarctic Explorer - The LORAX: Life on Ice, Robotic Antarctic Explorer project is preparing technology for a robotic investigation of microorganisms surviving within the near-surface ice of the Antarctic plateau.
• Land Mine Detection and Neutralization
• Life in the Atacama - Robotic field investigation will bring new scientific understanding of the Atacama as a habitat for life with distinct analogies to Mars.
• Lunar Ice Discovery Initiative - Icebreaker is a proposed mission to explore the south pole of the Moon.
• Lunar Rover for Polar Crater Exploration - The Scarab lunar rover has been designed to carry a 1-meter coring drill and a payload of science instruments that can analyze the abundance of hydrogen, oxygen and other materials.
• Mars Autonomy - Long-distance marsrover navigation with minimal human intervention.
• Motion Free Scanning Radar - We incorporate the current state of the art in non-mechanical scanning antenna technology with advanced millimeter-wave ranging technology to enable a small, reliable, and affordable imaging-radar sensor with no moving parts. Sensors will be demonstrated on the sponsor's equipment in typical operating scenarios and environments.
• Pioneer - Robots for Chornobyl Stabilization
• Quality of Life Technology Center - QoLT is a unique partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh that brings together a cross-disciplinary team of technologists, clinicians, industry partners, end users, and other stakeholders to create revolutionary technologies that will improve and sustain the quality of life for all people.
• Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning - The focus of the RADAR project is to build a cognitive assistant that embodies machine learning technology that is able to function without requiring expert tuning or specially trained users.
• Roboceptionist - In collaboration with the Drama Department, we are developing technology for long-term social interaction.
• Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search - Developing robots to search for meteorites in Antarctica, as an analog of a planetary exploration robot.
• Science Autonomy - The Science Autonomy project seeks to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of robotic planetary investigations by enabling automatic detection of relevant science features, classification of feature properties, and exploration planning that responds on-the-fly.
• Skinnerbots - Trainable robots using operant conditioning.
• Social Robots - We are developing robots with personality.
• Sonic Flashlight^TM - We are developing a method of medical visualization that merges real time ultrasound images with direct human vision.
• TRESTLE: Autonomous Assembly by Teams of Coordinated Robots - The TRESTLE project is developing the architectural framework necessary to coordinate robots performing complex assembly projects.
• Tartan Racing - Carnegie Mellon University is teaming with General Motors to compete in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
• Telepresence Robot Kit - To design, create, and disseminate robotics curricula and technologies that motivate young women and men to actively explore science and technology.
• Temporal Segmentation of Human Motion - Temporal segmentation of human motion
• Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Security - We are developing autonomous ATVs to secure borders and facility perimeters.
• Urban Challenge
• VISTA - On the Vista project we are developing devices that image upto a full 360 degrees in azimuth. The imagery we are getting is ideal for estimation of egomotion (localization) as well as for extracting shape from a sequence of images.
• Vikia - We are developing a robot who has personality and with whom it is easy to communicate.