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Albert Costa
Robotics Engineer

Associated centers: CFR and NREC

Email address: acosta@andrew.cmu.edu

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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• Biorobotics - Conducting motion planning research for snake robots, mobile robots, and actuator arrays, mainly geared for scenarios where the robot does not have a priori knowledge of the world.

• Robotic Demining - We are developing an autonomous robot to find landmines.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Bearing-only landmark initialization with unknown data association
  A. Costa, G.A. Kantor, and H. Choset
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '04), Vol. 2, April, 2004, pp. 1764 - 1770. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [526 KB] copyrighted

• A mobile hyper redundant mechanism for search and rescue tasks
  A. Wolf, H. Brown, R. Casciola, A. Costa, M. Schwerin, E. Shamas, and H. Choset
  Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, October, 2003, pp. 2889 - 2895. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [612 KB] copyrighted

• Path Planning for Robotic Demining and Development of a Test Platform
  E. Acar, Y. Zhang, H. Choset, M. Schervish, A. Costa, R. Melamud, D. Lean, and A. Graveline
  Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, 2001, pp. 161 - 168. [Abstract]
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