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IRIS

Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS)  In August 2003, I began working toward my doctorate degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich working with Professor Brad Nelson.  Some of my initial work is with future development of the Mechatronics and Robotics courses at the Institute.  I am still exploring various possibilities for my thesis work.  [Read More...]
DISTR

 

Center for Distributed Robotics  I just finished my Masters degree at the University of Minnesota working mainly on the Scout Robot project under Dr. Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos. I have done extensive work on the MegaScout, COTS Scout, and Scout 2000 platforms, and have focused on the electronics portion of these systems. [Read More...]

 

MinDART

 

Minnesota Distributed Autonomous Robotics Team The fall of 2001, worked with Dr. Maria Gini and the MinDART team to develop radio communications for their robots.  My initial work was adapting RFM radios to suit our communication needs.  The early prototypes have been completed, and future work will be done on a more complete model. [Read More...]

 

WinCE

 

 

Windows CE Robotics Ever since I first heard of a Palm Pilot being used as a robotics controller at Carnegie Mellon University, I wanted to use Windows CE as a robotics controller. At the time, Windows CE devices tend to be an order of magnitude more powerful and have some extremely nice built in features, such as the ability to add CF and PCMCIA devices. So, my senior year at UNL I started working with Dr. Stephen Scott and Acroname to build a Windows CE powered robot. [Read more...]

Here's a link to an article I wrote for Pocket PC magazine about the project entitled Going "Robile"

Projects

 
Dual H-Bridge 10 A Continuous dual channel h-bridge with current limiting and back EMF sensing  ZIP .zip file
Masters Design and Implementation of an Adaptive Heterogeneous Robotic Sensing Team PDF paper

PDF presentation

Artificial Intelligence II Implementation of Scout Behaviors Using Analog Sensing Methods PDF report
Computer Vision Implementation of a Video Processing Pipeline for the
MegaScout Platform
PDF report
 

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