| Obstacle Avoidance for a Mobile Robot |
Mobile robots
continually suffer from obstacles, both stationary and moving. We attempt
to provide a robust architecture for avoiding such obstacles given the
minimal amount of information about the environment itself and relatively
inaccurate and unreliable sensing devices. |
| Water Recovery System Automation Project |
The Water Recovery System Automation Project is a collaborative effort between the Civil Engineering (CE) Department and the Computer Science (CS) Department at Texas Tech University. The goal of the project is to extend the existing water recovery system (WRS), developed in the CE department as a joint venture with NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Texas Tech University (TTU), with an artificially intelligent control system developed by the CS department.
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| Autonomous Vehicles Actively Touring Academic Regions (AVATAR) |
Outdoor robotics pose several grand challenges in the area of mobile robotics. To encapsulate these issues into a single problem, a campus tour guide robot is being developed.
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| Learning Sub-cognitive Behaviors |
The behaviors that humans perform are quite often either completely reflexive or were learned at an early age and have since become reflexive in nature. Higher level behaviors are ordered sets of these sub-cognitive behaviors. We are developing solutions for learning these low-level, sub-cognitive, behaviors in order to provide them to intelligent agents for ordering in high-level behaviors. |
| Robot Mapping and Navigation |
Robot Navigation is at the very heart of the lab. Problems to solve under this group include occupancy grids for mapping, Monte Carlo localization, and Markov localization. |
| Decision Tree Function Approximation |
Decision Tree function approximation shows much promise in many areas of AI including reinforcement learning. |
| Partial Observability in Computation |
Processing information that is partially observable is an important aspect of many AI applications. |
| ALBERT
(Autonomous Large Beowulf for Exploring Rough Terrain) |
Large robot for research in outdoor mapping and navigation. Under construction. |
| simon |
Nomadics SuperScout II mobile robot for research in indoor mapping and navigation. |
| Johnny |
SRI Small Vision System on pan/tilt head. Can be mounted on either robot. |
| Thing |
Eshed Robotec Scorbot ER-VII robotic manipulator. |
| dijkstra |
Sun Ultra 60, 2 CPU's, 1 Gb RAM, Creator 3D graphics,SUNPCI |
| norvig |
Sun Ultra 10, 256 Mb RAM |
| bellman |
Sun Ultra 10, 256 Mb RAM |
| turing |
Sun Ultra 10, 256 Mb RAM, SUNPCI |
| markov |
Sun Ultra 5, 256 Mb RAM |
| satriani |
Sun Ultra 5, 256 Mb RAM |
| nebula |
Sun Ultra 5, 256 Mb RAM |
| earth |
Sun Ultra 1, 128 Mb RAM |
| magoo |
Dual Pentium III 500 Mhz Running RedHat Linux, 512Mb RAM (for vision system) |
| other |
Construction and test equipment: oscilliscope, digital analyzer, soldering iron, etc. |
