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Subject: Informal Survey (updated)   Part 1/2
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Organization   	Robot		Development		Languages &		
               	Type		HW Environment		SW Enviroment		
=============   ====		==============		=============		
Alcatel Alsthom Indoor robot	SPARC II, VME proc	VxWorks, MOTIF		
Recherche (AAR) Outdoor	robot							
                										
                										
Brown U.        Mobile robots	SPARC I & II,		OS/9, GNU Emacs, Xlib,	
                		VME 68030		MOTIF, Forth, C, C++	
                										
CMU             a) SM^2(walker)	VME 68020 & 68030,	Chimera II RTOS, C,	
                				Sun			Sun tools		
                b) AMBLER	VME 68020 & 68030,	MOTIF, VxWorks,			
                   		SPARC II, Iris		X windows, C		
                c) Mobile Mani-	Z8088s, Sun IPC & ELC,	X Window, Lisp, C, Hero		
                   pulator	NeXT			Basic			

                d) Mobile robot	SPARC, Iris, Mac,	X windows, Openwindows,	
                		VME, Maspar, Titan	VxWorks, Chimera RTOS,
                					TCA, GIL, LISP
                e) Navlab	Sun-4			X windows, C		


Colorado Sch.   Denning MRV-3	Sparc IIs, IPXs,	C, X11, Khoros, potential fields
of Mines        		IBM RS/6000s           	X11 visualization tool (homemade)


Colorado St.    6-legged robot	68HC11EVM, AT		C			

Cornell U.	2 mobile robots	Gespak 68000, Intel	Scheme, Lucid Lisp
		(robot with	80c196, Sun(?)
		tank-tread
		base coming)

Cray Research(?)Mobile robot	MC68HC16EBV, 386	Assembler		

Georgia Tech	Denning	DRV-1	SUN IPC, Decstation,	X windows, C,		
            	& MRV-II	Microvax II		Lisp

Grumman CRC     SmartyCat	Mac II's/IIci's,	C, CLOS, LISP, SAL		
            	(Cybermotion	uExplorer, SGI(soon)	VxWorks(soon)
		 K2A)		68030 VME board(soon)

IBM TJ Watson	TJ, TJ2		Symbolics, RS/6000,	LISP, CLOS, CLIM,	
(1989?-1992)           		286, 386, Suns		C, X-windows, MOTIF,
                					GNU Emacs
                							
ISX Corp        Subsumption	Mac II cx's/ci's	C(?)		
                							
JPL             7 robots	Suns to 6811		RCCL, ALFA	

McGill U	Mobile robot	Sparcs, mc68hc11, PC	GNU, X, Small-C 
							C, C++
		QUADRIS		SUNs, Macs, C-40, 68K	C, X-windows, IRIS GL

MIT		20 robots	Mac II & IIsi, HC6811	Behavior Language
		GOPHER (ISR R2)	68332, Mac, Sun		GCC, Behavior Language,
							Lisp, X-windows
		Polly		VME, 6811, Mac		Senselisp(Scheme)
		SOZZY(homemade)	6811, Mac		Lisp, Behavior Language
                									
MITRE           Denning MRV-1	MacQuadra, uExplorer	Lisp, REX/GAPPS, C, C++	

Northeastern U.	Lobster Robot	HC11, Mac		C, Pascal, Assembly
		Phaeton		Sun 4/330, Mac		C, epsilon (Cognex), 
		(Denning MRV3)				X-windows

NRC of Canada	EAVE		Mac II's, 68020's	C, HARMONY OS, MacAPP
		(Cybermotion)                									

NC State        Mobile robot	VME 68020 & 68040,	OS/9, P/NET	

Osaka U.	Homemade	VME 68030, SUN IPX,	C, X-windows
				Sparc 2

Purdue U.	PETER		Sun4, 68030		C, VxWorks
		(Cybermotion)

SRI		FLAKEY		Sparc10/30, Z80		Lucid Lisp, C, X-windows

Stanford        Landmark based	Mac IIci		C, LISP		
                Navigation
		(Nomadic)								
                									
Swiss FIT       Mobile robot	Mac			MacMETH, Modula-2	
                							
U of Central    a) 6-leg walker	Commodore 64		SuperC,	C	
                b) 6-leg walker Amiga 500		C		

U of Edinburgh	a) ALDER	8052, SUN, PC		Basic
		(Fischertecknik)
		b) CAIRNGORM	68000, SUN		C
		(Fischertecknik)
                									
U of Mass.,	Denning		DECstation 5000,	C, LISP
Amherst				Sparcstation

U of New	Underwater	Sparcstation,		VxWorks, C(?)
Hampshire	robots		CMOS VME boards


U Wash.		Denning		HP 9000 series 300's,	Gensym G2, OS/9	
				68000			LLAMA (Forth), Lisp, C 

Worcester Poly-	James		NEC 76310, 68HC11,	Assembly, Small-C (DOS) 
technic Inst.	(RWI B12)	Gateway 2000 PC

Wright Lab,	Hero 2000	Intel 286		MS C (DOS), Assembly
Wright-Pat. Air
Force Base

VTT (Technical	Akseli		HP-1100, 386		MS-DOS, LynxOS (soon)
Research Center						C
of Finland)




Organization    			Submitted by
=============				===========
Alcatel Alsthom Recherche (AAR)		noreils@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr

Brown University		        kjb@cs.brown.edu

CMU					a) dstewart@IUS4.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU
					b) Reid_Simmons@FREESIA.LEARNING.CS.CMU.EDU
					c) Reid_Simmons@FREESIA.LEARNING.CS.CMU.EDU
					d) nivek@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu
					e) Chuck_Thorpe@IUS4.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU

Colorado School of Mines		rmurphy@mines.colorado.edu

Colorado State University		jn163051@longs.lance.colostate.edu

Cornell University			jar@cs.cornell.edu

Cray Research				kilian@palm.cray.com

Georgia Tech				arkin@cc.gatech.edu

Grumman CRC				wlim@gdstech.grumman.com

IBM TJ Watson				nhaas@watson.ibm.com

ISX Corp				cfriedla@isx.com

JPL					gat@robotics.Jpl.Nasa.Gov

McGill University			dudek@mcrcim.mcgill.ca

MIT					ian@ai.mit.edu
					maja@ai.mit.edu
					masaki@ai.mit.edu

MITRE					slack@starbase.MITRE.ORG

NRC of Canada				Liscano@IIT.NRC.CA

Northeastern University			jdc@meceng.coe.neu.edu

North Colorado State University		aras@eceris.ece.ncsu.edu

Osaka University			ishiguro@sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

Purdue University			kak@ecn.purdue.edu

SRI					konolige@ai.sri.com

Stanford				eno@leland.stanford.edu

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	vestli@ifr.ethz.ch

University of Central Florida		rbc@engr.ucf.edu

University of Edinburgh			ulrich@aifh.edinburgh.ac.uk

University of Massachusetts, Amherst	connolly%rabbit@cs.umass.edu

University of New Hampshire		rg@nymph.msel.unh.edu

University of Washington		bob@robocop.ee.washington.edu

Worcester Polytechnic Institute		tyson@WPI.EDU

Wright Lab, Wright-Patterson AFB	bartha@corsair.aa.wpafb.af.mil

VTT (Machine Automation Lab.,		vjs@kau.vtt.fi
Tech. Res. Ctr. of Findland)



