Monica Nicolescu

	General Information
	Ph.D. Students
	Master Students
	Robots
	Alumni

General Information
The UNR Robotics Research Lab was founded in Fall 2003. We are located in room SEM 246. The current members of our lab are listed below. Details about our research projects can be found here.
If you are interested in robotics research and joining our group I encourage you to enroll in the Autonomous Mobile Robots class.

Ph.D. Students

Alina Solovyova-Vincent (currently on leave)

Brad Towle

Christopher King

Jirakhom Ruttanvakul

Master Students

Richard Kelley

Sebastian Smith

Austin Stanhope

Konda Jayashree

Jigarkumar Patel

Robots
Our lab is equipped with a wide range of robots:

Mobile robots:

We have 11 Pioneer 3DX mobile robots and 1 Pioneer AT. In addition to the standard on-board computer, all the robots are equipped with a dual-processor box used for visual processing and computational intensive algorithms. The robots have Sony PTZ cameras, grippers and laser rangefinders.
The robots are currently used for our projects on intent understanding, learning by demonstration, multi-robot control, and human-robot interaction.

We recently purchased 10 Create robots, which are all equipped with a 1.2GHz CPU.
Our goal is to use these robots to extend our research heterogeneous multi-robot control and also for educational purposes on our Autonomous Mobile Robots class.

Legged robots:

Our Sony Aibo is currently used for our research in human-robot interaction. We plan to extend using the robot on our intent understanding and learning by demonstration projects.

Humanoid robots:

In 2007 we purchased 10 Robosapien robots to be used for both research and education. In particular, they will be used on the projects on human-robot interaction and intent understanding and as a platform for an advanced seminar on robotics.

Alumni

Christopher King, (Master of Science), "Vision and Laser-Based Perception for Real-Time Autonomous Robotic Applications", graduated 12/03/2007 (co-advised with Mircea Nicolescu).

Bradford Towle, (Master of Science), "Combining Role Playing Game Constructs Toward Real Time Strategy Games", graduated 11/28/2007.

Asya Nikitina, (Master of Science), "Design and Implementation of Pattern Recognition Algorithms for the Detection of Chemicals with a Microcantilever Sensor Array", graduated 11/07/2007.

Adam Olenderski, (Master of Science), "Aspects of Behavior Design for Learning by Demonstration", graduated 08/08/2007.

Pablo Rivera, (Master of Science), "Development of an Autonomous Rover for the Nevada Student Satellite Program", graduated 08/08/2007.

Xavier Palathingal, (Master of Science), "A Framework for Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction", graduated 04/18/2007.

Christian Rayburn, (Master of Science), "Field Demonstrated Autonomous Robot Control for CanSat Rocket Payload Retrieval", graduated Fall 2005.

Created by: Monica NICOLESCU (e-mail: monica@cse.unr.edu)
Last update: 07/02/2008.