Brown
9:42 AM
Message of the Day
Friday, Nov 20, 2009
Results from Nov 18 planning soccer competition
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Nov 15 (Subsumption)
Brooks' orignal Subsumption Architecture paper
Braitenberg vehicle (tinkerlog)
NOVA: The Great Robot Race
DARPA Grand Challenge (wikipedia)
Dickmann's VaMP driverless car (wikipedia)
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009
Localization soccer competition schedule for Nov 18
Monday, Nov 9, 2009
Robotic Manipulation Videos
Remaking Manufacturing With Robotics (Brooks)
Oliver Brock Humboldt Professorship - Film Portraits
Dustpan Create robot (Kemp)
STAIR unloading a dishwasher (Ng)
Whole body Grasping through Nullspace Subsumption (Grupen)
Teleoperation of Justin humanoid robot (DLR)
Intel robotics commercial (Joshua Smith)
Autonomous Kitchen Cleanup (Intel)
iCub grasping
Domo cleaning up (Edsinger)
Domo making a drink
Affordance learning (Stoytchev)
Simon Robot (Thomaz)
Monday, Nov 28, 2009
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Oct 28-Nov 2 (Range/Bearing Likelihoods)
Matlab range function approximation example
Little Border Protector Guard (youtube)
MINERVA robot tour guide (youtube)
Friday, Oct 30, 2009
Localization Likelihood with Range and Bearing (Schwertfeger)
Results from Oct 23 planning soccer competition
Thursday, Oct 22, 2009
Soccer competition schedule for Oct 23
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Oct 21 (Particle Filter)
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Oct 14 (Robot Localization)
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Oct 7 (Coordinates; complete)
Condensation algorithm (Isard and Blake)
Matlab hallway particle filter example
CIT 5th floor MCL example slides
Little Border Protector Guard (youtube)
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009
Matlab odometry coordinate transform example
MINERVA robot tour guide (youtube)
HMT SLAM from ICRA 2007 (youtube)
Particle Filter Animations (Fox)
Helicopter-based mapping (Thrun)
Robotic Mapping (wikipedia)
Bayes rule (wikipedia)
Probabilistic localization: hallway example (Thrun)
Bayes Filter (wikipedia)
Recursive Bayesian estimation (wikipedia)
Friday, Oct 9, 2009
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Oct 7 (Coordinates; truncated)
Geometric Modeling Ch2: Motions and Projections (Requicha)"
Potential Fields Tutorial (Goodrich)
Dot product (wikipedia)
Matrix muliplication (wikipedia)
Transformation matrix (wikipedia)
RRT-Connect
Replanning with RRTs
Forward Chaining for Robot and Agent Navigation using Potential Fields
Forward Chaining for Potential Field Based Navigation (PhD thesis, so comprehensive)
Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Sep 30 (Path Planning)
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Oct 5 (Roadmap Planning)
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Oct 5 (Potential Fields)
Spiral wishing well (youtube)
Marble in funnel (youtube)
Gradient Descent optimization (wikipedia)
Motion Planning with Potential Fields (Kuipers/Stone)
Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009
ASIMO footstep planning (CMU)
Motion planning (Wikipedia)
A-star search (Wikipedia)
Probabilistic Roadmap (wikipedia)
Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (Kuffner)
Matlab path planning example
Matlab potential field example
Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Sep 28 (Finite State Machines)
Monday, Sep 28, 2009
Dancing Sony QRIO Robots (youtube)
HRP2 humanoid dancing (youtube)
Nao humanoid tai chi (Texas Tech)
Cha Cha Slide
Finite state machine (Wikipedia)
Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Sep 23 (Visual Servoing)
Robot following solid colored ball (gdn, todean; youtube)
CMVision (used by Player's blobfinder)
Player blobfinder proxy
Object Recognition (wikipedia)
Feature detection (wikipedia)
SIFT features (wikipedia)
Control Theory (wikipedia)
Proportional-Derivative Control (wikipedia)
Mass-spring-damper (wikipedia)
Visual Servoing (wikipedia)
Matlab 1D PD-servo example
Wednesday, Sep 23, 2009
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Sep 21 (Architectures)
Basics of robot control (Mataric)
Shakey: the original autonomous mobile robot (SRI)
Stanley Grand Challenge slides (Thrun)
Ghengis hexapod (Brooks)
Brooks' Ghengis hexapod with reactive control
Bug Navigation Algorithms (Prin. Robot Motion)
Bug Algorithm on Create (youtube)
Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Sep 16 (Robot Middleware)
Teleoperation of Justin humanoid robot (DLR)
Physically Based Modeling, Witkin and Baraff
Matlab particle simulator example
Ragdoll we can believe in
Biped flip (MIT Leg Lab)
"On The Run" short (MIT Leg Lab)
Java Ski Stunt Simulator (van de Panne)
Flash ragdoll games of varying coarseness
Ragdoll cannon
Ragdoll volleyball
Ragdoll tennis
Ragdoll goalkeeper
Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Sep 14 (What is a robot?)
Towards a Robot App Store (Gerkey)
Robot Operating System middleware (Willow Garage)
Player robot middleware overview
Player/Stage Demo (run script locally)
Player C example
Player C++ example
Player drivers list
Player proxies list
Monday, Sep 14, 2009
NOVA: The Great Robot Race
CS 148 Slides (PDF) from Sep 9 (Introduction)
So, Where's My Robot blog (Thomaz)
Player/Stage project (Sourceforge)
Robot Operating System wiki
New Scientist article on robot operating sytems
Monday, Sep 14, 2009
If you haven't done so yet, sign up for the mailing list (cs148 AT list.cs.brown.edu).
Otherwise, keep your eyes open for an announcement about the C/C++ primer. Also, the syllabus should now fully
agree with the Google calendar.
Spring 2009
Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009
If you haven't done so yet, sign up for the mailing list (cs148 AT list.cs.brown.edu).
Otherwise, keep your eyes open for an announcement about the C/C++ primer. Also, the syllabus should now fully
agree with the Google calendar.
Friday, Jan 23, 2009
NOVA: The Great Robot Race
Monday, Jan 26, 2009
Physics/Teleoperation Lecture Resources
Decider Ragdoll
Video: IMU Teleoperated NASA Segwaynaut
Matlab Particle Example
Physically Based Modeling, Witkin and Baraff
Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009
Video: Shakey the Robot (1969)
Player robot middleware overview
Player/Stage Demo (run script locally)
Player C example
Player C++ example
Player drivers list
Player proxies list
Monday, Feb 2, 2009
Mars Rover video
Arkin's Slides on Autonomous Control Architectures
Bug Navigation Algorithms (Prin. Robot Motion)
Brooks' Ghengis hexapod with reactive control
Bug Algorithm on Create (youtube)
Wednesday, Feb 4, 2009
Cartoon Network coverage of RoboCup 2006 US Open
Robot following solid colored ball (gdn, todean; youtube)
CMVision (used by Player's blobfinder)
Player blobfinder proxy
Object Recognition (wikipedia)
Proportional-Derivative Control (wikipedia)
Visual Servoing (wikipedia)
Matlab 1D PD-servo example
Monday, Feb 9, 2009
Dancing Sony QRIO Robots (youtube)
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge 2008 (U. Maryland)
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge 2007 (youtube)
Finite state machine (Wikipedia)
Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009
ASIMO footstep planning (CMU)
Motion planning (Wikipedia)
A-star search (Wikipedia)
Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (Kuffner)
Matlab path planning example
Matlab potential field example
Friday, Feb 20, 2009
Keepon dancing (Kozima and Michalowski)
Spiral wishing well (youtube)
Marble in funnel (youtube)
Gradient Descent optimization (wikipedia)
Monday, Feb 23, 2009
MINERVA robot tour guide (youtube)
HMT SLAM from ICRA 2007 (youtube)
Particle Filter Animations (Fox)
Helicopter-based mapping (Thrun)
Robotic Mapping (wikipedia)
Bayes rule (wikipedia)
Probabilistic localization: hallway example (Thrun)
Bayes Filter (wikipedia)
Recursive Bayesian estimation (wikipedia)
Thrun's slides on particle filtering
Condensation algorithm (Isard and Blake)
Matlab hallway particle filter example
Monday, Mar 2, 2009
Albert Hubo (KAIST, Hanson Robotics)
CIT 5th floor MCL example slides
Little Border Protector Guard (youtube)
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2009
Samsung visual SLAM vacuum
Kalman Filter (wikipedia)
Welch's Kalman Filter page
Rybski's slides on Kalman Filter robot localization
Friday, Apr 10, 2009
Aldebaran Nao humanoid (I am getting one!)
Willow Garage ROS
PR2 opening doors
PR2 tour guide
Wednesday, Apr 15, 2009
Rodney Brooks and Robotics
How Robots Will Invade Our Lives (Brooks)
Mataric's Robotics Primer (my advisor!)
Cynthia's elevator pitch
NOVA Profile: Cynthia Breazeal
Create shooting baskets
Friday, Apr 17, 2009
Kinder, Gentler Robots (Mataric)
El-E Socially Assistive Robot (Kemp)
Donoghue on Brain-Computer Interfaces (60 Minutes)
"Brain Power" (60 Minutes)
DEKA Robotic Prosthetic Arm (60 Minutes)
Monday, Apr 20, 2009
36 iRobot Creates clustering boxes (Simon Fraser)
CMDragons RoboCup SSL 2008
Collective stigmergic robot construction (Nagpal)
Distributed manipulation (Kumar)
Distributed robotic garden (Rus)
Optimal Assignment Problem (wikipedia)
Hungarian Algorithm (wikipedia)
Auction Algorithm (wikipedia)
Stigmergy (wikipedia)
Publish/subscribe messaging (wikipedia)
Friday, Apr 24, 2009
Centibots 100 Robots Project (SRI)
Centibots seeking objects
McLurkin's elevator pitch
Swarmbots in action
NOVA Profile: James McLurkin
Why we have Institutional Review Boards (Swarmbots)
Claytronics
Self-reconfigurable robotic molecule (Rus)
Monday, Apr 27, 2009
Whole body Grasping through Nullspace Subsumption (Grupen)
Justin humanoid robot (DLR)
STAIR unloading a dishwasher (Ng)
Autonomous Kitchen Cleanup (Intel)
iCub grasping
Domo cleaning up (Edsinger)
Domo making a drink
Military Use of Robots (NewsHour)
Governing Lethal Behavior (Arkin)
