CS4610: Lecture 0 - Course Overview, Common Types of Robots

Basic Parameters

instructor: Marsette Vona vona@ccs.neu.edu
lecture, office hours, TA info on website
website http://www.ccs.neu.edu/course/cs4610
- includes course schedule
- also defines course policies, including academic honesty
most course materials will be distributed only via the course website
- assignment 0 is to visit the course website and to send me an email

manipulator robots (arms)
- early hazmat arms
- manufacturing arms - PUMA, SCARA
- Kamen’s “Luke” arm
torso robots
- MIT Cog, DOMO
- Meka T2
walking robots
- quadrupeds
  - early quadrupeds
  - Boston Dynamics Big Dog and Little Dog at USC
- bipeds
  - early bipeds and Raibert hoppers
  - Boston Dynamics PETMAN
  - honda humanoid and HRP2
  - robo-one mini humanoids
  - passive-dynamic walkers
wheeled and tracked robots
- many wheeled research robots
  - RWI pioneer and B12
- DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge
- iRobot Packbot
- iRobot Roomba, many other cleaning robots
flying robots
- helicopters and quadrotors
  - asctec quadrotor at Penn
- planes
- blimps
snake robots
- CMU snakebot
self-reconfiguring and modular robots
- AIST MTRAN3
mobile manipulators
- Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
- DLR Justin
- Meka M1
- PR2
- Open Hardware Mobile Manipulator OHMM
difficult to categorize robots
- NASA/JPL ATHLETE