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Company Name: Vanderbilt University Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Company Type: Research & Development
Company Category:
Robotics Instruments
Company Profile
Research topics include human-robot teams, human-robot interface, mobile robot navigation, range-free perception-based navigation, sensory egospheres, and vision/image processing systems.
About Company
Research on mobile robotics is conducted within the Intelligent Robotics Lab (IRL). There are several operational robots including an ATRV-Jr (Scooter), a Pioneer2-AT (Skeeter), and a track-driven Matilda robot (Rocky) currently used in research. The ATRV-Jr is equipped with sonar, lidar, compass and DGPS sensors, plus a pan-tilt vision system. The Pioneer2-AT is equipped with sonar and a 360-degree camera array. The Matilda robot has an omni-directional camera, sonar sensors, and inclinometers.
In mobile robot research, the human user is often located at a remote site. The challenge here is for the robot to understand what the user is trying to communicate, particularly to understand the details of its task. Similarly, the robot should be able to communicate to the user any information regarding the state of the robot and the task that might have some influence on what the user wants the robot to do. In particular, it is important for the robot to be able to determine that it is having difficulty in making progress in the task, and needs to ask the user for help.
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