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Houdini This project is no longer active. Head: Hagen Schempf Contact: Hagen Schempf (hagen@rec.ri.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: FRC For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

The FRC has developed a capable mobile robot to gain access to, and move around inside a tank, deploying capable waste movement and handling tools such as a backhoe and plow, to help extricate the waste from the tank by moving waste to a central waste extrication system.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Todd Camill	Research Engineer
	Brian Chemel	Senior Research Engineer
	Anthony Nolla	Technician III, RI/ECE
	Hagen Schempf	Principal Systems Scientist	hagen@rec.ri.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)

Publications

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

• HOUDINI: Site and Locomotion Analysis-driven Design of an In-Tank Mobile Cleanup Robot
  H. Schempf
  American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting Transactions, October, 1995. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1279 KB], ps.gz [1958 KB] copyrighted