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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This project is no longer active.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.

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.

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

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