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PRADEEP KHOSLA
Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of ECE and Robotics
Co-Director, Cylab
CIT Dean
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The goal of research in the Advanced Mechatronics Laboratory (affiliated
with the Robotics Institute and the Institute for Complex Engineered
Systems) is developing the enabling technologies for "Rapidly
Deployable Systems" through composition (using hardware and software
building blocks) and collaboration (amongst autonomous robots and software
agents).
Professor Khosla's vision of an intelligent system involves several
specialized components (hardware or software) that can be composed
rapidly to create a system, and that collaborate with each other to
achieve the desired behavior. To accomplish these goals and demonstrate
this vision, technologies are being developed for distributed design
and manufacturing, and utilization of the next generation of distributed
robot systems (macroscopic and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based)
that will include hardware, software and man-machine interfaces.
Achieving this goal requires the pursuit of research in seemingly
diverse but philosophically connected areas. These research goals are
being achieved under the umbrella of the following projects: Agent-Based
Control of Distributed Intelligent Systems, Agent-Based Methods for
Distributed Design and Manufacture, Assuring Quality of Service in
Heterogeneous Networks, Reconfigurable Robots, Composable Simulations
for Intelligent CAD, Gesture-Based Programming and Design of Real-Time
Software Systems.
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