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Heads: Takeo Kanade, Chris Atkeson, James Kuffner, David Ferguson, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Contact: Siddhartha Srinivasa (ss5@andrew.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated centers: VASC, MRTC, CFR, and FRC
Associated labs/groups: CREATE: Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment, NavLab, People Image Analysis Consortium, Face Group, Human Sensing, TechBridgeWorld, Human Identification at a Distance, and Planning and Autonomy Lab

For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

The goal of this project is to create a robot to assist people in the home. The robot consists of a WAM arm and Barrett hand with a Segway-RMP mobile base. The project focuses on developing vision, planning, and control algorithms to enable the robot to perform complex tasks autonomously.

Personnel

Name Title Email Address
Chris's personal homepage Chris Atkeson Professor, RI/HCII cga@cs.cmu.edu
Dmitry Berenson PhD Student, RI dberenso+@cs.cmu.edu
Alvaro Collet Romea Masters Student, RI alvarocr@andrew.cmu.edu
Rosen Diankov Graduate Student, CS rdiankov@cmu.edu
David's personal homepage David Ferguson Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) dif@cmu.edu
Garratt Gallagher Masters Student, RI ggallagh(at)andrew.cmu.edu
Geoffrey's personal homepage Geoffrey Hollinger PhD Student, RI gholling@andrew.cmu.edu
Takeo's personal homepage Takeo Kanade U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS tk@cs.cmu.edu
James's personal homepage James Kuffner Associate Professor kuffner@cs.cmu.edu
Nathan's personal homepage Nathan Ratliff PhD Student, RI ndr@andrew.cmu.edu
Siddhartha Srinivasa Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) ss5@andrew.cmu.edu
Michael Vande Weghe Senior Research Engineer, ICES vandeweg@cmu.edu

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

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