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Head: Tom Mitchell
Contact: Greg Armstrong (roboman@andrew.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Science Department
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Lab Location:
WEH 5310
Lab Phone:
(142) 268 3837

For more information, see this lab's homepage.

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Lab Description

Our research focuses on making robots learn and making learning robots succeed in the real world. Research aspects range from theoretical considerations over algorithmic design to practical implementations and demonstrations.

Past members

Name Title Email Address
Greg's personal homepage Greg Armstrong Senior Research Technician, CS roboman@andrew.cmu.edu
Michael W Bode Senior Robotics Engineer bode@rec.ri.cmu.edu
David's personal homepage David Cohn Research Scientist (Adjunct)
Frank Dellaert PhD Student, CS
David's personal homepage David Ferguson Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) dif@cmu.edu
Dieter's personal homepage Dieter Fox Research Associate, CS dfox@cs.cmu.edu
David Hershberger PhD Student, RI
John Langford PhD Student, CS jcl3@andrew.cmu.edu
Dimitris Margaritis PhD Student, CS dm2@andrew.cmu.edu
Tom's personal homepage Tom Mitchell Director-Mld/Fredkin Prof. of Comp.Sci., CS tom.mitchell@cmu.edu
Michael's personal homepage Michael Montemerlo PhD Student, RI
Daniel Nikovski PhD Student, RI
Joseph O'Sullivan PhD Student, CS jo24@andrew.cmu.edu
Joelle's personal homepage Joelle Pineau PhD Student, RI
Chuck's personal homepage Chuck Rosenberg Research Scientist, Google, Inc. mail2chuck@gmail.com
Nicholas's personal homepage Nicholas Roy PhD Student, RI
Jamieson Schulte Senior Research Programmer jschulte@cs.cmu.edu
Reid's personal homepage Reid Simmons Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair reids@cs.cmu.edu
Sebastian's personal homepage Sebastian Thrun Adjunct Associate Professor, MLD/CSD/RI (Adjunct) thrun@stanford.edu
David's personal homepage David S Touretzky Research Professor, CS dst@cs.cmu.edu
Vandi's personal homepage Vandi Verma PhD Student, RI

Past projects

Amelia - An improved Xavier
BORG - Framework for the development of distributed, secure, reliable, robust and scalable systems
Formal Verification of Autonomous Systems - We are developing tools and techniques to support formal verification of autonomous systems.
Inter-Process Communication Package - We are developing a high-level support package for connecting and sending data among processes using TCP / IP sockets.
Mercator - Cooperative Multi-Robot Mapping and Planning
Minerva - Minerva is an autonomous robot that daily moves through crowds at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Personal Robotic Assistants For The Elderly - Pearl will help researchers explore the ways autonomous mobile robots can help the elderly live independently in their own homes.
Statistical Methods For Learning Maps with Mobile Robots
Super-Resolved Texture Tracking - Video-stream object motion estimation and tracking.
The Lifelong Learning Project

Recent publications [View all 20 publications]

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