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Featured ProjectsAlex Krause2020-04-09T10:30:18-04:00

Featured Projects

A View-Invariant Internal World Representation for Predictive Cognitive Human Activity Understanding
Agile and Dynamic Interactions for Mobile Manipulation
Lab Head: Ralph Hollis
Assistive Manipulation Through Intent Recognition
Assistive Robots for Blind Travelers

As robotics technology evolves to a stage where co-robots, or robots that can work with humans, beco...

Lab Head: M. Bernardine Dias
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Autonomous Driving Motion Planning

The goal of this project is to develop efficient, high-performance motion planning methodologies for...

Autonomous Needle Insertion for Vessel Access

The most important component in case of high-tempo, traumatic scenarios on the battlefield is insert...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Biotracking

We are developing algorithms for automatically tracking and modeling the behavior of multiagent syst...

Lab Head: Maria Manuela Veloso
Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer

We are developing the Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer (CAMEO) - a sensory system designed to...

Lab Head: Maria Manuela Veloso
Chefbot
CoBot Mobile Service Robots

Our CoBot robots follow a novel symbiotic autonomy, in which the robots are aware of their perceptua...

Lab Head: Maria Manuela Veloso
Confined Space Robotics - Edge Sensing and Embedded Sensors

Blaser is a compact ultra-short range 3D scanner for confined space robotic applications.

Lab Head: Lu Li
Confined Space Robotics - Force Perception
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Confined Space Robotics - In-situ Pipe Repair

Robot solution for old pipes. Robots go inside the pipes to repair leakage by extruding epoxy pipe i...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Confined Space Robotics - Mobile Manipulator for Confined Spaces
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Confined Space Robotics - Pipeline SLAM - Robust Mapping in Confined Spaces

CMU in-pipe mapping system is a self-sufficient payload consisting of sensors and computation device...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Confined-Space Robotic Manipulator and Mobile System

Design robotic arm, manipulator, mobile base, and its control hardware/software for confined space a...

Lab Head: Lu Li
Controlled Coverage for Auto-Body Painting

Speeding up of the paint spray-gun path programming by automation, achieving uniform coverage.

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Coverage Path Planning in the Plane: Exact Cellular Decompositions

Incremental construction of exact cellular decompositions that are formulated in terms of critical p...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Daml-S

We are developing DAML as part of the Semantic Web initiative.

Lab Head: Katia Sycara
DARPA RACER Challenge

An autonomy system that can handle tough terrain while moving fast.

Lab Head: Matthew J. Travers
DARPA Subterranean Challenge - Team Explorer

The DARPA Subterranean or “SubT” Challenge seeks novel approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and...

Lab Head: Matthew J. Travers
Deformation Modeling

Predict deformation in ultrasound images and use it to create synthetic data to train other machine...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Design and Analysis of low-cost educational haptic devices
DRRP on Robotics and Automation for Inclusive Transportation
Electronic Waste Recycling

Recycling Robotics

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Electronics waste recycling: Deep learning strategies
Lab Head: FNU Abhimanyu
Electronics waste recycling: Novel manipulation strategies
Lab Head: Matthew J. Travers
Expeditionary Robotics - Deploy Structures Anywhere Anytime
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Expeditionary Robotics - Modular Mobile Robots for Manufacturing
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Formal Models of Human Control and Interaction with Cyber-Physical Systems

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) encompass a large variety of systems including example future energy sy...

Lab Head: Katia Sycara
Geometric Mechanics: The Dynamics and Control of Multi-robot Systems in Ambient Media

Investigating the different and rich ways in which agents interact in their environment, especially...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Haptic Guidance Robot
HeartLander

A miniature mobile robot for minimally invasive therapy on the beating heart through a single perc...

Lab Head: Cameron Riviere
Hetero-Agent, Multi-Objective, Traveling Salesman Problems
Highly-Articulated Robotic Probe

We developed and tested a prototype based on an innovative approach of a highly articulated robotic...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Human Control of Robotic Swarms

Robotic Swarms are distributed systems whose members interact via local control laws to achieve diff...

Lab Head: Katia Sycara
Hybrid Robot Exploration

This project seeks novel approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search environments.

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Integrated Planning and Learning

The Pillar project explores synergies between planning and learning to create a fundamental framewor...

Lab Head: Maxim Likhachev
Integrating Intelligent Assistants into Human Teams (Joccasta)

A multi-disciplinary research project designed to increase the effectiveness of team decision makin...

Lab Head: Katia Sycara
Learning Manipulation Modes
Locomoting Systems - Biologically Inspired Robots
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Locomoting Systems - Geometric Mechanics
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Locomoting Systems - Magnetically Controlled Micro Locomotion
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Locomoting Systems - Series Elastic Actuation
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Locomoting Systems - Shakey Perception
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Locomoting Systems - Snake Robot Systems
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Locomoting Systems - Titan 6 - Large Size Six-Legged Robot

Two-meter tall hexapod for various terrain usage. It is also an exploration of building a set of sel...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Locomoting Systems - Vertical Robot Transport (VeRT)
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Manufacturing - Airplane Ink-Jetting
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Manufacturing - Semi-Supervised Learning for Defect Detection in Additive Manufacturing
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Material Tracking on Moving Conveyor Belts

Recycling Robotics

Mechanical and Reflexive Intelligence for the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS)
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Medical AI: BodySLAM

This project aims to find novel ways of navigating and mapping the inside of the body

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Medical AI: Ultrasound Segmentation

This project aims to allow ultrasound image segmentation to generalize across real-world patient div...

Lab Head: Edward Chen
Medical Robotics: Autonomous Ultrasound Scanning
Lab Head: FNU Abhimanyu
Medical Robotics: ENT surgical augmentation

This project is exploring methods of performing specialized bone surgery around the ear to make surg...

Lab Head: Nicolas Mateo Zevallos-Roberts
Medical Robotics: Medical Sensation Reduction

This project aims to create a device that reduces pain from needles.

Lab Head: Nicolas Mateo Zevallos-Roberts
Medical Robotics: Needle Insertion
Lab Head: Raghavv Goel
MMPUG: Multi-Model Perception Uber Good

This research seeks to develop the state of the art in fast moving autonomy while also exploring met...

Lab Head: Matthew J. Travers
Mobile Autonomous Robot Software

Develop complete, effective and scalable software for autonomous robot teams. Demonstrate robot team...

Lab Head: Maria Manuela Veloso
Modeling Cultural Factors in Collaboration and Negotiation

This multi-university cooperation project concentrates on Modeling Cultural Factors in Collaboration...

Lab Head: Katia Sycara
Modelling Synergies in Large Human-Machine Networked Systems

This multi-university cooperation project concentrates on modeling synergies in large Human-Machine...

Lab Head: Katia Sycara
Modular Distributed Manipulator System

An array of cells, each of which can induce a vectored force to an object resting on the cell. The c...

Modular Robots

Modular robots offer the potential to build customized robots from a small set of core components ca...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Modular Robots: EigenBots System Design

Self-contained sensing, computing, and a motor driver printed circuit board design provides onboard...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Modular Robots: Mechanism and Control Design

Modular robotic systems have a core set of modules that can be combined and recombined to quickly fo...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Modular Snake Robots
Lab Head: Howie Choset
MoonRanger

Robotic microrover being developed by Carnegie Mellon University and its spinoff Astrobotic

Lab Head: William (Red) L. Whittaker
Multi-Agent Heterogeneous Ergodic Search
Multi-Agent Path Planning: Subdimensional Expansion and Operations

We seek to obtain the benefits of both coupled and decoupled approaches by bypassing the curse of d...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Multi-Agent Planning - Communication Learning on Discrete Bandwidth-Constrained Networks
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Multi-Agent Planning - Multi-Agent 2D/3D Exploration
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Multi-Agent Planning - Partial Reward Decoupling for Efficient Large-Scale Multi-Agent Learning
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning: Distributed Learning for Collaborative Policies

We developed decentralized multi-agent RL to construct a structure out of blocks. Each agent vies fo...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Multi-Agent: Communication Learning

Gradient-based inter-agent communication learning on bandwidth-limited communication networks.

Lab Head: Benjamin (Ben) Freed
Multi-agent: Decentralized Assembly System
Multi-Agent: Improving Modern Machine Learning Using Control Theory
Lab Head: Raghavv Goel
PERSUADER

A framework for intelligent computer-supported conflict resolution through negotiation/mediation.

Lab Head: Katia Sycara
Point Cloud Registration (PCR)
Lab Head: Rahul Chakwate Uday
Punctate Pressure

A novel device that allows us to perform psychophysical experiments.

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Recognizing and Reacting to Human Needs Determined by Social Signals
Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning

The focus of the RADAR project is to build a cognitive as...

Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation
Retract-like structures for SE(2) and SE(3)

Motion planning algorithm for thr rod-shaped robots, based on distance measurements.

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Reusable Environment for Task Structured Intelligent Network Agents

An architecture for developing distributed intelligent software agents that cooperate asynchronousl...

Lab Head: Katia Sycara
RoboLoom
Lab Head: Samantha Speer
Robot Self-Assesment (MURI)
Robot Soccer

The RoboSoccer project develops collaboration among multiple autonomous agents.

Lab Head: Maria Manuela Veloso
Robot-Mediated Haptics for Blind Student STEM Education
Lab Head: Abena Boadi-Agyemang
Robotic Force Sensor and Perception

Giving the robots the sense of touch by developing compact, robust, and intelligent force/torque/tac...

Lab Head: Lu Li
Robovent

Research in ventilation control systems, tele-critical data collection, machine learning, and respir...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Robust Autonomy
Lab Head: Reid Simmons
Satellite Inspection and Servicing
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Search and Rescue

Giving Urban Search and Rescue workers more technological tools to help find and save victims of nat...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Sensor Based Coverage of Unknown Planar Environments

Sensor based coverage of unknown environments using exact cellular decompositions.

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Skill Learning - Learning Skills and Temporally Abstract World Models from Offline Demonstration
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Snake Robot Design

Analyzing the factors that are of importance in designing a snake robot, and imple...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Soft Magnetic Actuators
Space Robotics: Dexterous On-Orbit Maintenance

Dexterous On-Orbit Maintenance is used to perform repairs and replacements for satellites whose enab...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Surgical Snake Robot

A tool for minimally invasive robotic surgery.

The Minnow Robot

We are interested in building and studying teams of robots operating in dynamic and uncertain enviro...

Lab Head: Maria Manuela Veloso
Toward Practical Ultrasound AI Across Real-World Patient Diversity

This work proposes a method for enhancing deep learning models’ capabilities by generating synthet...

Lab Head: Howie Choset
Tracker systems for handheld surgical robotics

We are developing highly accurate surgical tracking systems for handheld microsurgical robotics.

Lab Head: Cameron Riviere
Treasure Hunt: Pickup Teams

We are developing a single heterogeneous human-robot team capable of effectively locating objects of...

Lab Head: Maria Manuela Veloso
Understanding the connection between finger sense training and math learning
Understanding the role of Haptics in STEM learning
Underwater Confined Space Navigation and Inspection
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Underwater Confined Space Navigation and Inspection
Lab Head: Howie Choset
Urban Search and Rescue

We are developing Hybrid Teams of Autonomous Agents: Cyber Agents, Robots and People (CARPs) to addr...

Lab Head: Katia Sycara
Vanderbot

Path-planning for a hyperredundant robot with low torque limits. Because the robot can't cantilever...

WebMate

A personal agent for World-Wide Web browsing that enhances searches and learns user interests.

Lab Head: Katia Sycara
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