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Rigelsford, J. (2000), "Internet page", Industrial Robot, Vol. 27 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2000.04927fag.001

Internet page

http://www-robotics.usc.edu/robots.htmlThe USC Robotics Research Laboratory

Keywords Robotics, Research

The Robotics Research Laboratories at the University of Southern California (USC) are part of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS). The site contains information about current and past research, education opportunities, publications, related Web sites and lots of information about their different robots. Information can be found about robot helicopters, Laika the Sony dog, Pioneers, R2s, the R1-Nerd Herd, Kheperas, soccer robots and a robot called YODA.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/rll/overview/jpineau_01/Concurrent Mapping and Navigation with Mobile Robots

Keywords Mapping, Robots

This Web page contains an article written by Joelle Pineau, Sebastian Thrun and Dieter Fox. It is located on the Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science Web site.

http://www.frog.nl/eng/FROG Navigation Systems

Keywords Navigation, AGV

Frog Navigation Systems is an international company who specialise in the control and navigation of automatically guided vehicles (AGVs). The patented FROG navigation concept finds its application not only in the traditional AGV market for automated manufacturing and logistics but also for non traditional AGV markets such as heavy duty cargo transportation and people transportation.

This is a well presented site which is easy to navigate and is available in three languages: English, German and Dutch.

http://church.computer.org/proceedings/m2vip/8025/80250175abs.htm

Keywords Machine vision, Mechatronics

Located on the IEEE Computer Society Web site, this page contains an abstract from the 4th Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice which was held on 23-25 September, 1997 in Toowoomba, Australia. The abstract "Initial calibration and alignment of an inertial navigation" was written by E. Nebot and H. Durrant-Whyte from the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Sydney University, NSW, Australia. Their work presents an efficient initial calibration and alignment algorithm for a 68 of freedom inertial navigation unit.

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/mobile/main.htmlAutonomous Mobile Robotics at The University of Rochester – Computer Science

Keyword Robotics

This site contains information about the faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, the mobile wheelchair robot, navigation and control, tracking and following, co-operation in multiple robots, research publications and miscellaneous information.

There is plenty of interesting information available and it is all relatively easy to find. Overall, this site is worth visiting as it contains detailed technical information.

http://labrob.ing.uniroma1.it/Welcome.htmlDIS Robotics Laboratory

Keyword Robotics

The DIS Robotics Laboratory was established in 1987 and is part of the Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica (DIS) at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza". The site contains information about the laboratory, people, research, projects, publications, robots, links and events. Not all of the links lead to pages which have any content.

http://www-lar.deis.unibo.it/ernet/ernetbook/node18.htmlERNET – European Robotics Network

Keyword Robotics

ERNET was launched during a meeting in Nice, May 1992 and officially started on 1 December 1993. The project aims to design navigation algorithms for a mobile robot with motion autonomy in an unknown indoor environment.

Unfortunately this site contains little technical information.

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/robotics/navigation.htmlRobotics Research Group

Keywords Robotics, Research

The Robotics Research Group is part of the Department of Computer Science at Manchester University, UK. The robot navigation page contains a list of publications, some of which can be downloaded. The robotics pages http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/robotics/ contain some interesting information but are a bit sparse on content.

HOT SITES

http://www.syseng.anu.edu.au/rsl/rsl_home.htmlRobotic Systems Lab (RSL)

Keyword Robotics

The Robotic Systems Laboratory was established in October 1996 and is part of the Department of Systems Engineering of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering. The main research fields are Real-robots working in the Real-world in Real-time (R3), specifically co-operative robot systems, mobile robot navigation, active vision, robot learning and human-robot/computer interaction.

Research projects include: a behaviour architecture for co-operating mobile robots, stereo tracking for head pose and gaze point estimation, visual interface for human-robot interaction, a dextrous manipulator, a stereo camera platform for active vision, autonomous submersible robots, a gesture interface to virtual environments, vision-based qualitative navigation for mobile robots and Web teleoperation of a mobile robot.

This Web site is clearly presented and contains information about the different projects, the people involved and a number of research papers are available in PDF or PS format.

http://robotics.stanford.edu/Stanford Robotics Laboratory

Keyword Robotics

At the Stanford Robotics Laboratory, research is aimed at making robots more autonomous and dextrous. It concentrates on a number of core topics, including robot design, dynamic control, force-based control, manipulation, machine learning, navigation, vision, tactile sensing and reasoning. This aims to increase the self-sufficiency of existing robots, and to enable robots to accomplish very delicate tasks.

This is another interesting site which is both easy to navigate and well presented.

Jon Rigelsford