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If you want to skip the technical details, visit our Video Page (bring your own popcorn). You can also take a free-form tour of the lab, or you can start with the local map of the lab. In addition, we maintain an internet resources page for robotics.
We also have a Web Chart linking other Web pages here at UMass, and we have a copyright.
The Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics (LPR), under the direction of Professors Rod Grupen and Robin Popplestone, and the Center for Automated, Real-Time Systems (CARTS) at the University of Massachusetts is focused on new technologies to control robots in uncertain and unstructured environments. These efforts include techniques for acquiring geometric information on-line, sensor-based systems for robot manipulator control and mobile platform navigation, methods for reacting to sensor information during assembly operations, geometric reasoning for automated assembly planning, and adaptive controllers which acquire skill in assembly tasks.
P50 robot equipped
with the Utah/MIT hand (click to enlarge). This robot is used for coarse reaching and grasping research (see those pages for mpeg
movies).
Zebra Zero robot with force sensor. This robot is used for contact assembly planning and learning.
Thing is a four legged twelve degree of freedom walking robot.
Our stereohead has four mechanical degrees of freedom
and each lens has three optical degrees of freedom. We are
investigating the use of the head to acquire course object models and
to assist in assembly tasks.
Would you care to sign our Guest Book? Thanks for your comments.
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