Personal Pages

Kleeman, L. - Associate Professor, Department Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Australia. List of online publications.
http://www.ecse.monash.edu.au/centres/IRRC/LKPubs/index.html

1337 Robotics - Descriptions and photos of robotics projects created by MrZebra, Mandark and Graz. Site also includes a resource listing and a tutorial on ultrasonics.
http://www.1337robotics.com/

Birk, Andreas - Professor heading robotics research at the International University Bremen (IUB).
http://robotics.iu-bremen.de/people/birk/

Kuipers, B. - Professor and Chairman, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Research interests include the representation of commonsense and expert knowledge, with an emphasis on the effective use of incomplete knowledge. Recent accomplishments include a robot exploration and mapping strategy based on qualitative recognition of distinctive places.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kuipers/

Chladny, Ryan - Describes Ryan's work on a large, hydraulic, autonomous, robotic vehicle. Includes related pictures and links.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~rchladny/

Hirzinger, Gerd - Director, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR German Aerospace Center.
http://www.op.dlr.de/FF-DR/gerd_hirzinger.html

Thrun, S. - Professor of Computer Science and director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford University. Thrun pursues research in robotics, probabilistic techniques and machine learning.
http://robots.stanford.edu/

Astolfi, Alessandro - Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College, London. Interests in Control Theory.
http://cap.ee.imperial.ac.uk/~astolfi/

Long, Matthew T. - Researcher at CRASAR. Links to research papers and new work in artificial intelligence, the semantic web and robotics.
http://www.robothor.com

Weymouth, Terry E. - Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan.
http://www.si.umich.edu/~weymouth/

Koenig, S. - Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. Research centers around techniques for decision making that enable situated agents to act intelligently in their environments, under realistic conditions.
http://idm-lab.org/

Robomarsh78 - Student robotic projects at Semnan University in Iran. Papers, a photo gallery, a list of projects, and information about the members.
http://www.robomarsh78.20m.com/

VCAR - Drive a toy car via the web with realtime streaming video.
http://www.hellspark.com

Davison, Andrew J. - Lecturer in Computing at Imperial College London, carrying out research in real-time computer vision, robotics and SLAM.
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ajd/

HexWorks - A site about Hamlet, an hexapod autonomous robot.
http://utenti.lycos.it/hexworks/index_en.html

Irobotics India - Gerard Sequeira's robots. Includes information on his fire fighting robot, a golf playing robot based on the PIC16F84A, and a line following robot.
http://www.geocities.com/gear996/

Reconn's World: SmallBot Project - Information on an attempt to build the SmallBot robot.
http://www.reconnsworld.com/smallbot.html

Spero, Dorian J. - Research engineer at Ford Motor Company in Michigan working on the DARPA Grand Challenge. Research interests include mobile robot navigation in natural environments, SLAM, sensing and path planning.
http://www.dorianspero.com

O'Sullivan, Shane - Contains his Masters thesis on Map Building with Mobile Robots, and a map editing application.
http://www.skynet.ie/~sos

Brooks, Rodney - Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/

Fox, D. - Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington. His research interests lie in artificial intelligence and its application to mobile robotics, believing that building systems is an important part of research, especially in robotics.
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/fox/

Burgard, Wolfram - Professor of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg and head of the research lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. Areas of interest lie in Artificial Intelligence and mobile robots.
http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~burgard/

PSU Robotics - Tony Muilenburg is a Electrical Engineering student at Portland State University, and a member of the PSU Robotics club.
http://web.pdx.edu/~muilenta/

Scott's Bots - Details about Scott Preston's robot projects, including photos, descriptions, how-to guides and reviews.
http://www.scottsbots.com/

Dudek , G. - Professor at the School of Computer Science and Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM). Research areas include navigation, shape, mobile robotics, computer vision, vision, visualization, and recognition.
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~dudek/

von Stryk, Oscar - Simulation and Systems Optimization Group (SIM), Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt.
http://www.sim.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/pers/card/stryk.html.en

Milios, E. E. - Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, York University, Ontario. Interests include computer vision, mobile robotics, and multiagent robotics.
http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~eem/Welcome.html

Littman, M. - Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham.
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~mlittman/

MHEX - An autonomous six legged walking robot controlled by a Motorola 68HC11F1. Includes photos and videos related to the project.
http://www.geocities.com/viasc/mhex/mhex.html

Harvey, Inman - Course directory for Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom.
http://www.cogs.sussex.ac.uk/users/inmanh/

Sweet Line Following Robot - Details the construction of a line following robot. Includes video clips of the vehicle.
http://www.robotroom.com/Sweet.html

I.R.BOT - A six wheeled insect inspired robot based on the AVR microcontrollers. Photos, diagrams, and software and brief notes on the use of neural nets and fuzzy logic with the robot.
http://www.fictoor.nl/irbot/

Arkin, Ronald - Regents' Professor and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. Interests include behavior-based reactive control, robot survivability, multi-agent systems, biorobotics, human-robot interaction and learning.
http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/faculty/arkin/

Barlas, Omar - A hobby robot that can pick up and move small objects.
http://www.peridotec.com/robot/

Christensen, Henrik I. - Professor of computer science at Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm. Areas of interest include mobile robotics, autonomous systems, computer vision and biologically inspired robot systems.
http://www.nada.kth.se/~hic/

Ackermann, Jürgen - Former director of the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center.
http://www.robotic.dlr.de/control/staff/ackermann/

DaVinci Robotics Educational Foundation - Learn about the group's various robot projects. Also includes advice for those who wish to build robots.
http://www.teamdavinci.com

Röfer, Thomas - Assistant professor doing research on cognitive robotics in the Krieg-Brückner group, Bremen Institute of Safe Systems (BISS), University of Bremen, Germany. Interests include control of autonomous mobile robotics, image processing, and simulation.
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~roefer/index_e.htm

Robo innovations by Savvas Afantenos - Lego Mindstorms robots built by Savvas, including biped and tracked robots. Photos and descriptions of each robot are included.
http://www.geocities.com/savvas_afant/

Anders' Mindstorms page - Showcases a variety of Ander's Mindstorms projects including a Yatzymatic, a Pinball machine and a cooler. Site also include information on Mindstorms programming and sensors.
http://www.norgesgade14.dk/index.php

Kumar, Vinodh - Showcase of his robots, Micromouse, Carrom Playing Robot and Fire Fighter, and robotics tutorials.
http://www.vinodh.150m.com/

Ristow, Christian - A builder of robotic kinetic art. Biography, photos, and information on shows.
http://www.christianristow.com/

Wesleys Bots - Photos of several robots made from electronic scrap.
http://home.ix.netcom.com/~wmills1/

Zimmer, U. R. - Australian National University, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, and the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering. Current research interests include spatio-temporal modelling in autonomous systems.
http://transit-port.net/Uwe.Zimmer/

Robby, a Household Robot - Proposal to build a $10000, 4 ft high, pneumatic, humanoid robot.
http://www.intelligent-systems.com.ar/intsyst/robby.htm

QRIS Robotics - Michiel van Turnhout's QRIS autonomous robot project.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/qris/

The Smile Project - Experiments in human behavior and emotional responses through human-scale robots.
http://www.smileproject.com

Simmons, R. - Senior Research Computer Scientist, CMU Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh. Research interests focus on developing reliable, highly autonomous systems (especially mobile robots) that operate in rich, uncertain environments.
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/simmons_reid.html

St. Lawrence College Web Robot Arm - Control a robot arm and cameras in a college classroom remotely over the web.
http://www.ati.sl.on.ca/robot/

Byrne, Jeffrey - Jeff Byrne is a robotics and computer vision professional, working on image segmentation, image aided navigation and visual collision obstacle detection for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs).
http://www.jeffreybyrne.com

Corky'z Robotz - A small, remote-controlled robot made from a BASIC Stamp and common parts. Includes instructions, schematic and code listing.
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/park/1302/robotz.htm

Snake Robots - Features several robotic snakes. Includes photos and video clips.
http://www.snakerobots.com/

John's Robotics Page - Information on robotics in general and the author's own robot projects.
http://blizzard.rwic.und.edu/~nordlie/robotics

Rainwater, R. Steven - Dallas Personal Robotics Group member who builds autonomous mobile robots, operates the robots.net website, and maintains the Usenet Robot Competition FAQ.
http://www.ncc.com/humans/srainwater/

Duckett, T. - Researcher in Autonomous Sensor Systems. Assistant Professor at the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems at Örebro University in Sweden. Research interests include autonomous robots, machine learning and neural networks, artificial intelligence, navigation systems, and biologically inspired sensor systems.
http://aass.oru.se/~tdt/

Aquaticus ROV - Description of a homebuilt underwater robot.
http://aquaticus.info

Mbah, Stephen I. - Robotics projects, including a robot head and KHR-1.
http://www.mbah.net/

Elners, Tom - BEAM robots, hexapods, mini sumo, light seekers and circuits.
http://www.tombot.net

Kalyan, Bharath - Research interests include mobile robotics, specializing in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle navigation. Also has an interest in Nature Photography.
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/pa9027400

Anderson, David P. - Director of the SMU Geophysical Imaging Lab. Member of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group. Descriptions and photos of his autonomous robots including nBot, a two-wheeled balancing robot.
http://www.geology.smu.edu/~dpa-www/dpa.html

Markatronic's Computers and Robotics - Pages with various inventions using old computer components and circuit boards made by the author.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/3482/

Robot Pages of Jaap Havinga - Complete descriptions for several projects including robots, a battery charger, and a CNC machine.
http://www.havingasoftware.nl/robots/robots.htm

Kaelbling, L. P. - Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT. Also associate director of the MIT AI Lab and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/lpk/

Borenstein, J. - Research Scientist and Head of the Mobile Robotics Lab within the University of Michigan's Department of Mechanical Engineering. Interests in mobile robots, obstacle avoidance, odometry, positioning, and the GuideCane for the Blind.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~johannb/

Murray, D. - Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. Interests include stereo vision for mobile robot navigation.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/donm/

Westerdale Autonomous Robot Vision Project - Simon Westerdale's project to create a vision guided robot using adaptive algorithms. Virtual maps are made of the learned environment providing an accurate guidance mechanism.
http://www.westerdale.ch/

Robotic Lawnmower - The development of an autonomous robot designed to mow the lawn.
http://www.geocities.com/zs6bne/myrobotlawnmower.htm

Wenzel Electronics - Contains information and circuits for steppermotor control, dc motor pwm, robotics and micro-controllers.
http://freenet-homepage.de/WenzelElectronics/indexeng.html

Mason, Matthew T. - Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Conducts research on the mechanics of robots manipulation.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mason/

Kartoun, Uri - PhD student at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, with an interest in machine learning. He has publications and videos of robots such as ER-1, Motoman-UP6, Scorpion and CRS-255.
http://www.compactech.com/kartoun/

Four Legged Walker - Walking robot using a BASIC Stamp 2SX and two Mini SSC servo controllers to control 12 servos.
http://www.geocities.com/scott98103/

von Puttkamer, E. - Head of the AG Robotik und Prozeßrechentechnik, Universität Kaiserslautern, Fachbereich Informatik, Germany.
http://ag-vp-www.informatik.uni-kl.de/Leute/vP/vP.html

RHA robotic team - The Amir Kabir University of Technology's robotic projects including a line tracker robot and a ball gatherer.
http://www.kambiz-robotics.4t.com

Cricket the Robot - Information on building an autonomous, walking robot. Includes schematics and code.
http://home.earthlink.net/~henryarnold/

Dillmann, Rüdiger - Professor at the Universität Karlsruhe with research interests in mobile systems, medical applications, interactive learning and humanoids.
http://sfb414.ira.uka.de/mitarbeiter/dillmann.htm

Balancing Robot - A biped robot capable of standing up on its own from a fallen position.
http://geocities.com/cmiguel/

Williamson, David - Includes descriptions and photos of a variety of robot-related projects including robot arms, walking machines, and flying vehicles.
http://www.geocities.com/davidvwilliamson/

Hotze, M. - A 3-servo hexapod with obstacle avoidance capability. Details the design, building process and programming, and shows movies.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.hotze/robotproject/

Hudson, Trammell - Provides information on his work with the Autopilot UAV flight control project and links to other robotics sites.
http://www.swcp.com/~hudson/

Nourbakhsh , I. R. - Assistant Professor of Robotics, The Robotics Institute, CMU. Interests include: formal representations of perception and action; planning with incomplete information; interleaving planning and execution; mobile robot architectures; real-time visual obstacle avoidance and navigation; robot team communication and cooperation.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~illah/

Nickols, Frank - Associate Professor of Robotics and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Dhofar University, Oman. He has built beetle, centipede, cuttlefish, underwater eel, spider, tricycle and omni-directional robots.
http://www.franknickolsrobots.com/

Vogler, Alexander - Descriptions, pictures, 3D-models and videos of robots V-3 (BiPed) and HR-V1 (Humanoid upper body). HR-V1 is designed to combine with a revised version of V-3.
http://www.austrobots.com/

Konstantinos Akalestos' Lego Biped Robot - Shows the research and programming done for creating a walking robot that exhibits obstacle avoidance behaviour. The robot is constructed using Lego's Mindstorms and programming in C language using the BrickOS kernel.
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/3258

Christoph's Rug Warrior Page - Tips and schematics to build your own Rug Warrior Robot.
http://seekay.eidoloskop.com/Rugwarrior.html