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From: kube@cs.UAlberta.CA (Ron Kube)
Subject: Grad Student Who's Who in Robotics
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Summary: Grad Student Who's Who
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 14:48:50 GMT
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Have you ever wondered what grad students are doing in robotics?
At trip to your local research library allows you to see Who's Who
in robotics at the post-doc level, i.e. Professor SoNso, and SuchNsuch,
but what about the graduate students working on their MSc. or PhD?

I would be interested in compiling a list, a graduate students Who's Who in 
Robotics.  I'll compile the material and post a summary in comp.robotics.
So, to make things easier, if you would like to appear in the Grad Students
Who's Who in Robotics send me a note using the following format:

1. Name:		C. Ronald Kube	email: kube@cs.ualberta.ca
2. Supervisor:		H. Zhang	email: zhang@cs.ualberta.ca
3. Institution: 	University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.
4. Research Area:	Collective Robotics
5. Summary:
	This research examines the question:  Can autonomous mobile robots
	achieve tasks collectively?  The work begins with the study of social
	insects--Nature's example of a decentralized control 
	system--simulating those mechanisms that could prove useful in
	controlling teams of robots.  Our research methodology requires all
	proposed theories be tested on situated physical robots.  To date,
	a system consisting of 5 mobile micro-robots have been built and used
	in a box-pushing task.  Currently, a new system of 10 micro-robots are
	being constructed.

Cheers!

Ron

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C. Ronald Kube                                       Collective Robotic
University of Alberta                               Intelligence Project
Robotics Research Laboratory                        >>>>>> (CRIP) <<<<<<
Department of Computing Science                                     
615 General Services Building            vv          kube@cs.ualberta.ca     
Edmonton, Alberta                       @,@          Tel: (403) 492-5113
CANADA  T6G 2H1                        ( * )         Fax: (403) 492-1071
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