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Head: Illah Nourbakhsh

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

Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: CREATE: Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment

For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

The goal is to produce a robot wheelchair capable of navigating Carnegie Mellon's campus, traveling from my office to the Campus Bookstore to fetch a book autonomously. To this end, this project encompasses challenges in vision, navigation, learning, obstacle avoidance in a dynamic world and planning with incomplete information. The project uses a robot chassis that is actually an electric wheelchair! Localization and sidewalk-following will be performed exclusively using passive vision. For an informal discussion of vision and navigation, see the Monologue on Navigation.

Past members

Name Title Email Address
Illah's personal homepage Illah Nourbakhsh Associate Professor illah@ri.cmu.edu
Iwan Ulrich PhD Student, RI

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.

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