http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~rsl/
Research in our laboratory focuses on underwater robotic vehicles, real-time autonomous systems, modular robotics, co-operative robot systems, mobile robot navigation, active vision, robot learning, human-robot interaction, friction-based robot-environment interaction, and autonomous formation control. The main research areas in the department of systems engineering are robust control systems, hybrid control, systems optimization, vision systems, robotic manipulation, signal processing, and autonomous robotics.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mlab/www/home.html
The Manipulation Lab focuses on autonomous robotic manipulation in the presence of uncertainty with research in manipulation mechanics, modeling physical processes, planning and sensors. The Lab has a variety of projects including desktop robotics, tactile sensing, and dynamics manipulation.
A Distributed Computational/physical System for Micromanufacturing – This project is creating a novel modular, distributed, and highly scalable computational/physical system for multi-disciplinary research and applications in micro-manufacturing. The approach is a robotic-agent-based distributed information architecture of a type not found in industry today. The distributed nature of the agent-based system requires neither centralized control nor a centralized database for its operation, thereby avoiding communication and code complexity bottlenecks. The goals are to i) dramatically reduce design, program, and deployment times compared with state-of-the-art systems, ii) greatly increase mechanical precision over existing methods, and iii) greatly reduce floor space requirements. The architecture is highly generic, and is applicable to multi-step flow-through production systems for domains such as micro-fabrication of small parts, assembly of meso- and micro-scale products, synthesis of discrete amounts of chemicals, and analysis of biological materials. The system addresses several difficult human-computer interface issues making the system more accessible to researchers and students and much easier to use compared with conventional approaches. In this work, collections of computational/physical agents are designed and programmed through a virtual 3D representation that is registered in space and synchronized in time with the actual micromanufacturing system. The system includes several automatic procedures such as calibration and multi-agent coordination which reduces programming tedium. We expect the developed system to be a suitable research platform where multiple, concurrent experiments can be run by faculty and students. The intention is also to provide a working system which can serve as an example for industry.
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects/mars/
The Carnegie Mellon Field Robotics Center is working with NASA's Intelligent Robotics Program to transfer research in autonomous navigation to Mars rover prototypes developed at JPL. Working with Constellation will make the transition of software to JPL easier.
http://www.mae.cornell.edu/campbell/
Research in ASL focuses on networked systems of humans and robots interacting with an environment in the form of perception and acting. Our lab includes many types of robots (driving, walking, flying) and sensors (laser, vision, thermal). Human operators can act from computer terminals, laptops, or GPS equipped handheld computers. We are using RTI as part of our networking infrastructure in order to enable the sharing of information in a scalable manner, for our research experiments.
PIXHAWK is an award winning student-run team that is using RTI Data Distribution Service for message passing on the Quadrotor project. The objective for this project is to create an autonomous vision-based micro aerial vehicle that is capable of navigating large indoor and outdoor environments.
The UAV Research Facility focuses on adaptive control and extreme maneuvering of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Current projects include the use of adaptive control in low-level attitude and trajectory control of an autonomous helicopter and the cooperation of UAVs with other vehicles.
IMDL will be using Constellation for several research projects including: active and passive damping, adaptive control, automated manufacturing, fuzzy and neural networks, precision engineering and motion control, multimedia technology, intelligent sensors and actuators, vision-based motion control and teleoperation.
http://www.automation.hut.fi/projects/agrix/index_en.html
The Automation Technology laboratory at Helsinki University of Technology is working in the field of robotics, mechatronics and control of industrial processes. The Agri & Forestry group concentrates on new technologies and control methods for semiautonomous heavy duty machines; modular design with open networked automation systems, embedded software, navigation and positioning, machine perception and intelligence.
http://www.irit.fr/-ASTRE-team
The Astre Research Team (English: Real-Time and Embedded Systems) works to resolve challenges posed by new applications and software architecture in real-time. They consider various constraint levels in their research, including: application, system, middleware, platforms, and network execution. The Astre Team's research expertise includes self-administration, pervasive grids, platform for data storage, management protocols replica, and QoS in networks and embedded systems.
More specifically, the team is using RTI DDS for the TUNE project; an autonomic management system based on high-level languages of abstraction to facilitate the definition of political administration (deployment, reconfiguration). Through their research efforts they have discovered that treating new facets of administration or new applications required them to define new languages more suited to these areas. Currently, they are exploring the design of a system for integrating new languages based on the fields.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/mm/research/manufacturing-systems/
Over more than a decade the MSI Research Institute has been a major contributor to international developments in Enterprise Modelling and Enterprise Integration. Its systems modelling and integration concepts, methods and software tools have been applied with respect to many large-scale manufacturing, engineering, logistical and business systems. Currently MSI has around 25 research staff and students whose work is funded jointly by government and industry. The Institute's researchers have leading edge expertise in areas of: systems engineering and change; business process modelling visualisation and analysis; human systems design and enactment; machine and software component design and implementation; workflow management; and internet-enabled distribution of design, engineering and monitoring services.
http://mers.csail.mit.edu/mers-projects.htm
New generations of sensor rich, massively distributed, embedded systems are being developed that have the potential for profound social, environmental, and economic change. These systems include networked automobiles that never fail, cooperating vehicle teams that perform search and rescue, and humanoid robots that will assist astronauts in space, or the elderly back on earth. The objective of the MERS group is to revolutionize the way in which we create and control these new artifacts. Research in the MERS group concentrates on model-based autonomy -- the creation of long-lived autonomous systems that are able to explore, command, diagnose and repair them selves using fast, commonsense reasoning.
http://lims.mech.northwestern.edu
The Laboratory for Intelligent Mechanical Systems specializes in the fields of robotics and controls. They have a focus in haptics, human/robot interaction, robot-assisted surgery, sensors, and general robotics issues.
http://whale.fe.up.pt/seaware/
Porto University uses RTI Data Distribution Service in Seaware, a publish-subscribe middleware for multi-vehicle networked systems composed of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles and systems. Seaware provides a high level interface to network communications and may be deployed with a combination of heterogeneous components within a dynamic network. Seaware supports the RTPS (Real Time Publish Subscribe) protocol, underwater acoustic modems and other forms of network transport.
http://www.ie.psu.edu/Facilities/Facilities.html
The VTR Lab focuses on research in robotics, manufacturing automation, and man-machine systems. They have projects in experimental robotics, cable array robots, modeling robotic systems, adaptive and nonlinear control, machine vision and telerobotics.
The Center for Automation Technologies specializes in micro and nano manufacturing. Their emphasis is on microsystem design, assembly and packaging. Current projects include microfluidics, microphotonics, micropackaging, and parallel micro & nano assembly.
Robonaut is a humanoid robot designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA's Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA. The Robonaut project seeks to develop and demonstrate a robotic system that can function as an EVA astronaut equivalent. Robonaut jumps generations ahead by eliminating the robotic scars (e.g., special robotic grapples and targets) and specialized robotic tools of traditional on-orbit robotics. However, it still keeps the human operator in the control loop through its telepresence control system. Robonaut is designed to be used for "EVA" tasks, i.e., those which were not specifically designed for robots.
Research in the ARL focuses on improving robotic performance through the application of feedback control, integrated sensing systems, and task-level autonomy. All of the research is developed and validated on experimental hardware systems. These systems include both mobile robots (land, sea, sky, and space) and a variety of fixed anipulators for space and factory applications.
Researchers at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain are working on the Energos project. They are working to develop knowledge and technologies that advance the implementation of smart grid distribution of electricity (Smart-Grid). The main characteristic of such networks is their ability to integrate and manage, in real time, the actions of users who are connected to it - generators, consumers and those are both things at once-to get a power efficient, safe and sustainable. The main goal is to integrate RTI DDS to evolve the TOPEN (Test and Operation Environment) for managing messages through DDS buses and encapsulate them into a OSGi container. They are also using IMPONET (Intelligent Monitoring of POwer NETwork) for tools supporting the test and operation of remote systems.
http://wwwvs.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/forschung/
The goal of the project is to develop real-time capable (assured, not just probablisitc) middleware, based on RTI Data Distribution Service, thus adding determinism to RTI Data Distribution Service implementation. Duration: about 2years. Results of the thesis, such as installed RTI Data Distribution Service implementation, will be used in education in "Distributed embedded systems" courses.
http://www-lia.deis.unibo.it/Courses/RetiLM/Lucidi.html
The Computer Engineering Department in University of Bologna is teaching DDS in its Computer Networks class. The course covers in depth the issues raised by design of typical distributed system services and those supported by the underlying infrastructure, specifically in for heterogeneous distributed systems even those consisting of many nodes.
The objective of this class is to give the ability to analyze the common solutions to problems in distributed systems, and provide the tools to follow the rapid evolution of Information and Communication Technologies, with particular attention to the realities of new developments of Internet services, specifically:
Course material covering DDS can be found at: http://www-lia.deis.unibo.it/Courses/RetiLM/lucidi/ddsx2.pdf
The Computers and Real-Time Group (CTR) in University of Cantabria has been working in basic and applied research in the area of real-time technology since 1987.
Our research with DDS aims to develop the appropriate methodologies to build distributed real-time systems amenable to timing analysis. In particular, this research will evaluate different strategies in terms of concurrency, communication mechanisms, QoS support and network protocols to enable the schedulability analysis in distributed systems based on DDS.
The Systems and Control group has designed and built several prototypes of service and mobile robots such for inspections of industrial plants, and surface inspections. Currently, they are building two kinds of mobile robots for exploration in hazardous environments like volcanoes. They are using Constellation to develop the real-time motion control, telemetry and teleoperation algorithms for these mobile robots.
http://avatar.colorado.edu/~siewerts/research/phd.html
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has developed a certificate program in Embedded Systems. The Real-Time Embedded Systems course requires students to develop embedded subsystems typically used in robotics and multi-media applications including: mobile computer vision platforms for target peak-up/tracking, ranging, and navigation; robotic arm/manipulator control; and digital video/audio encode/decode and network transport. RTI tools are used by students in these courses to design, implement, and analyze real-time embedded systems.
The NES Group are working on a project called, Estimation and Control for Safe Wireless High Mobility Cooperative Industrial Systems, which is focused on analyzing the interactions of robotic UAVs.
University of Granada is conducting a number of research projects that incorporate RTI Data Distribution Service, such as: Bloom-filter-based Discovery protocols for DDS; XML-based approach to the configuration and deployment of DDS applications; and QoS policies for Audio and Video distribution using DDS middleware.
Human exploration and development of space will demand a heavy extravehicular activity (EVA) workload from a small number of crew members. In order to alleviate the astronaut workload robots remotely working with teleoperated control are currently being developed at NASA - Johnson Space Center. One such telerobot is the ROBONAUT (ROBOtic astroNAUT), which is an anthropomorphic robot with two arms, two hands, a head, a torso and a stabilizing leg. One more intuitive way to teleoperate the ROBONAUT than just using a joystick is to estimate the three-dimensional motion of the teleoperator's body parts (e.g., head, arms, torso, and legs) and then use the estimated motion to control the ROBONAUT. In such a system, the robot imitates the movements made by a teleoperator. As the teleoperator reaches out an arm, so does the ROBONAUT. And if the teleoperator starts twisting a screwdriver, the ROBONAUT should copy the action down to the slightest movement. Currently, the off-the-shelf systems for human motion estimation are very obtrusive and encumbering because they attached devices such as skeletons, electromagnetic sensors or markers to the operator. Our goal is to develop a non obtrusive system for human motion estimation from a monocular image sequence for teleoperation of ROBONAUT. In this stage of our project we would like to command the ROBONAUT with the output of our human motion estimation algorithm.
This project focuses on the fundamental research in nonlinear control of mechanical systems. The motivation for this work comes from two application areas: autonomous navigation of underwater and aerospace vehicles, and locomotion for hybrid robotic mechanisms.
This department is working on the National Advanced Driving Simulator, which will be the most advanced driving simulator in the world. Funded by the National Highway and Safety Administration, the mission of NADS-SC is to support safety research and conduct R&D work in the areas of traffic safety, and a virtual proving ground.
http://www-sensorimotor.cs.umass.edu
This department is working on the National Advanced Driving Simulator, which will be the most advanced driving simulator in the world. Funded by the National Highway and Safety Administration, the mission of NADS-SC is to support safety research and conduct R&D work in the areas of traffic safety, and a virtual proving ground.
Researchers in the RTCL are investigating basic research issues in the areas listed below, and apply the basic research results to real-life applications.
http://www.precisionmanufacturing.co.uk
The Precision Manufacturing Centre (PMC) is a world-class centre of research that delivers high quality technology solutions in a wide range of areas including precision manufacture, adaptive fixturing, micro fabrication and assembly automation. In particular, our group concentrates on the development of reconfigurable assembly platforms and the integration of manufacturing systems according to the plug & produce concept. The research is applied in a large number of projects in aerospace, automotive, pharmaceutical and microelectronics industries.
The School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering's Intelligent Robotics Lab explores a variety of aspects in robotics and intelligent systems. In this lab we concentrate on embodied physical agents from both the software and hardware point of view.
The Applied Electronics Laboratory (APEL) is one of the main laboratories in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras. It was founded in 1975 and it is responsible for courses in the area of Electronics, Microelectronics, Microprocessors and Microcomputers, Embedded Systems, Telecommunication Electronics and Real Time Networks. Over 200 Masters and over 40 Ph.D. theses have been completed in the past twenty years. Many more are, currently, in the stage of execution or completion.
The Smart Machines Laboratory has three complementary research themes: (i) machine control focusing on the application of model predictive control methods and techniques to large mechanical systems; (ii) perception, focusing on the mapping and segmentation of terrain; and (iii) mission planning focusing on the development of algorithms for decision planning on receding horizons for automation systems. Much of the work conducted is in close association mining equipment manufacturers and mining companies leading to automation of mining equipment through the Cooperative Research Centre for Mining (CRCMining).
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~midlab/
Middleware has emerged as a critical second level of the enterprise IT infrastructure. Even though this software is not visible to users, it enables resource management and systems interoperabilty across a distributed system in either a peer-to-peer or a client/server fashion despite differences in OS platforms, networks and data schemas.
The primary goal of MIDLAB is to support leading-edge research and development on middleware bridging the gap between the latest research results and the current technologies. In particular main MIDLAB targets are the study, the design and analysis of novel middleware platforms able to increase the robustness of information exchanging with respect to reliability, consistency, predictability and security."
http://www.mecatronica.eesc.usp.br/meca
We at the Mechatronics Laboratory are focusing our efforts on the update of the educational program and on the development of new training concepts that explore and enhance the ability to create competitive mechatronic products using real-time development environments. The Mechatronics Laboratory research activities are distributed in three main groups: Robotics, Automation & Systems Engineering The Automation group is concerned with Industrial Network Protocols and Security, Industrial and Automation and Data Integration. The Constellation Framework and the ScopeTools will be used by this group for research and development towards the creation of a generic and distributed controller.
http://www.his.se/templates/ClearStartPage.aspx?id=43046
This group focuses on the control of manufacturing machine systems with the aid of 3-D robotic simulation systems. They are setting up a Mechatronic Systems Platform to study problems characterized by the need for an integrated approach of product and production development and the need for agility in manufacturing environments. RTI's RTI Data Distribution Service is used to integrate robotic simulation systems with other simulators and hardware devices.
This laboratory will focus on sensor-based intelligent systems applied to applications in space, nuclear environments and biological systems.
http://mil.engr.utk.edu/nmil/research
The Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL) focuses on theory and practice of novel machine learning technologies that are applicable to a broad range of domains. In particular, we investigate biologically-inspired deep machine learning architectures that are combined with reinforcement learning algorithms to yield high-performance decision making systems.
http://www.engr.utk.edu/mabe/rsrch-ram.html
The focus of the research is in the broad areas of robotics and automation as they apply to manufacturing automation, industrial controls, remote operations in hazardous environments, military operations, and space applications. They have capabilities in telerobotics, advanced teleoperations, redundant and flexible manipulators and unmanned vehicles. They are using Constellation to implement a human-interactive telerobot controller.
http://www3.uta.edu/faculty/reyes/AVL/
The Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory (AVL) is concerned with answering a host of research questions related to engineering remotely-controlled, autonomous, and cooperatively-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), as well as numerous supporting technologies.
http://www.uthouston.edu/index/about.htm
The research program includes software and hardware issues involved in real-time control, robot path planning, cooperative manipulation, flexible-link robot control, robotic system visualization, and haptic interfaces for telemanipulation. Other research activity includes the design and control of a macro-micro manipulator system and haptic interfaces for robotic task planning and teleoperation.
http://bme.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_e.html
Our Laboratory is the first laboratory which specializes in Bio-Medical Engineering in Japan. There are 2 professors, an associate professor, an assistant professor, 2 research assistants and 25 students in our lab. Since 1980, we have studied about "Computer-aided Surgery (CAS)", "Measuring physiological phenomenon," and "Rehabilitation Engineering." Most of our research are joint studies with medical departments and companies.
The Laboratory of Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS) is a CNRS research unit associated with the six founding members of the University of Toulouse: Université Paul Sabatier (UPS), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse (INSA), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INP), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE), Université du Mirail (UTM) and Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1).
LAAS' research activities fall within the domain of Information Sciences and Technologies and address complex systems (artificial and sometimes natural) generally heterogeneous, and at different scales, to devise theories, methodologies and tools for modeling, designing and controlling them.
Research, innovation and transfer are tied. The lab has a history of strong relationships with industry and works in a large number of collaborative projects with international, national and regional industries of all size. LAAS was one of the 20 first "Carnot Institutes" labeled in 2006.
The VETO Lab has research project in haptic interfaces, locomotion interfaces, teleoperation, rapid virtual prototyping, scientific visualization, and human operator dynamics.
http://www.aa.washington.edu/controls/
The Control Systems Laboratory teaches students about the components of feedback control systems (sensors, actuators, dynamics systems) through classes and experimental projects that use contemporary software tools for controller design and implementation. In cooperation with The Boeing Company, the lab is using Constellation to develop precision control of large, flexible robotic systems for aircraft part manufacturing.
The WAMBOT Team competed in the DSTO MAGIC 2010 Competition which was aimed at building a fleet of unmanned vehicles which must complete a series of challenges. The team from the University of Western Australia was selected as a finalist and ended up placing fourth in the competition. The WAMBOT UGV system is largely complete (having been created for the MAGIC 2010 event in November 2010) however they team is going to continue their research with RTI Data Distribution Service.
http://www.engga.uwo.ca/research/robo/
The research program includes software and hardware issues involved in real-time control, robot path planning, cooperative manipulation, flexible-link robot control, robotic system visualization, and haptic interfaces for telemanipulation. Other research activity include the design and control of a macro-micro manipulator system and haptic interfaces for robotic task planning and teleoperation.
http://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/
A key focus of ISIS is to develop high-assurance and high-performance DRE system technologies by building prototype systems and deploying them in testbed and production settings. Since its inception in 1998, ISIS has conducted research on foundational technologies and experimental methods related to model-based software and quality of service (QoS)-enabled middleware to enhance the quality and performance of next-generation DRE systems.
The DOC Group is a distributed research consortium led by Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt and consisting of the DOC group in ISIS at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, the Center for Distributed Object Computing in the Computer Science department at Washington University and the Laboratory for Distributed Object Computing in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of California, Irvine. The purpose of the DOC group is to support advanced R&D on middleware and modeling tools for distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems.
Washington State University uses RTI Data Distribution Service in its Distributed Systems Concepts and Programming class. With the help of RTI, they designed three projects for use in the class. The first one is a "hello world" project, letting the students write a basic program that publishes information over the network. The purpose of this project is to give the students an idea of how middleware actually works and get them familiar with RTI DDS. The second project lets the students create a distributed system "Top" functionality using RTI DDS. The publisher sends CPU and memory usage data periodically, and the subscriber uses ContentFilteredTopic to get a subset of the messages. Additionally, the students use some QoS Policies to control the behavior of their program. In the third project, the students create a simplified public transport system using RTI DDS.
Nano Manufacturing and Mechatronics Lab of Yonsei University focuses on the research of manufacturing process and control design, especially at micro/nano scale. Real-time dynamic simulation and measurement utilizing computer network is applied to the development and operation of reconfigurable micro-sized automation systems.
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