WTEC Workshop: Review of U.S. Research in Robotics

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY TALKS

• The National Science Foundation (Junku Yuh)
• International Assessment of Research and Development in Robotics (Y.T. Chien)

RESEARCH AREA: NETWORK ROBOTICS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS, ENVIRONMENTAL

• Area Summary (Arthur Sanderson)
• Networked Robots: An Enabling Technology for Remote and Coordinated Operations (Ken Goldberg, Daniela Rus, Ning Xi)
• Multi-robot Systems (Lynne Parker, Maja Mataric, Manuela Veloso, Tucker Balch
  • Related paper: Advances in Multi-Robot Systems (Tamio Arai, Enrico Pagello, Lynne E. Parker
• Sensor/actuator networks (Gaurav Sukhatme, Vijay Kumar)
• Environmental Robotics (Dan Stilwell, Art Sanderson)

RESEARCH AREA: MEDICAL ROBOTICS; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; BIO/PHARMACEUTICAL; ASSISTIVE/REHABILITATIVE

• Area Summary (Yuan F. Zheng)
• Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Surgery (Russ Taylor)
  • Related paper: Medical Robotics in Computer-Integrated Surgery. Russell H. Taylor, and Dan Stoianovici
• Robotics and Robotics-inspired Algorithms for Molecular and Cellular Biology: Diagnostics, Genomics, Proteomics (Deirdre Meldrum, Lydia Kavraki)
  • Related paper: Microfluidic devices for DNA sequencing: sample preparation and electrophoretic analysis (Brian M. Paegel, Robert G. Blazej, Richard A. Mathies
  • Related paper: Automation for Genomics, Part One: Preparation for Sequencing (Deirdre Meldrum)
  • Related paper: Automation for Genomics, Part Two: Sequencers, Microarrays, and Future Trends (Deirdre Meldrum)
  • Related paper: Microfluidic devices fabricated in poly(dimethylsiloxane) for biological studies (Samuel K. Sia, George M. Whitesides)
• Bio/Pharmaceutical Applications (Brad Nelson, Yuan Zheng)
• Rehabilitation Robotics and Assistive Robots (Vijay Kumar, George Bekey, Corinna E. Lathan)
  • Related paper: Assistive Devices For People With Motor Disabilities (Vijay Kumar)

RESEARCH AREA: COGNITIVE HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION (CHRI); PHYSICAL HRI (PHRI); HUMANOIDS; ENTERTAINMENT; PERSONAL/SERVICE; EDUCATIONAL

• Area Summary (Rob Ambrose; pending)
• Humanoid robots (Rob Ambrose, Una-May O'Reilly)
• Physical Human-Robot Interaction (Oussama Khatib, Michael Peshkin, Yoky Matsuoka
• Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction (Cynthia Breazeal, Robin Murphy)
  • Related paper: Final Report for the DARPA/NSF Interdisciplinary Study on Human-Robot Interaction (Jennifer L. Burke, Robin R. Murphy, Erika Rogers, Vladimir J. Lumelsky, and Jean Scholtz)
• Entertainment (Dan Kara)
• Personal & Service Robotics (Robin Murphy, Helen Greiner, Dan Kara, Paolo Pirjanian)
• Educational Robotics (Illah Nourbakhsh, David Miller, Corinna Lathan, and Maja Mataric)

RESEARCH AREA: SPACE; FIELD; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; UNDERWATER; UAV

• Area Summary (Brian H. Wilcox)
• Space robotics (Dave Akin, Paul Schenker, Brian Wilcox)
  • Related paper: Space Teleoperation Through Time Delay: Review and Progress (Thomas B. Sheridan)
• Field robotics (Sanjiv Singh, Scott Thayer, David Wettergreen)
• Military applications (Doug Gage, Helen Greiner)
• Underwater robotics (Junku Yuh, Louis Whitcomb)
• Aerial Robots: Airframes, Sensing and Navigation (Paul Y. Oh)

RESEARCH AREA: ACTUATORS/MECHANISMS; BIO/NANO/MEMS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

• Area Summary (George Bekey)
• Actuators and Mechanisms (Henry Asada)
• Nanorobotics and Microrobotics (Ari Requicha, Ron Fearing)
  • Related paper: Nanorobots, NEMS, and Nanoassembly (Aristides A. G. Requicha)
  • Related paper: Micro and Meso Scale Robotic Assembly (Dan O. Popa and Harry E. Stephanou)
• Industrial applications (Jason Tsai, Maynard Holliday)

RESEARCH AREA: PERCEPTION (SENSING, VISION, IMAGING); CONTROL, ARCHITECTURE, AND LEARNING; NAVIGATION/MAPPING

• Area Summary (Pending)
• Computer Vision (Gregory Hager, Shree Nayar)
• Robots, Vision, and Animal Behavior (Tucker Balch)
• Control, Software, Architectures (Tony Maciejewski, John Wen)
  • Related paper: Control of Robots and Manipulators (Mark W. Spong, Joris De Schutter, Herman Bruyninckx, John Ting-Yung Wen)
• The World of Mapping (Howie Choset, Dieter Fox)