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Quick Facts about Me

• Main Faculty Appointments: Mechanical Engineering, Control & Dynamical Systems
• Faculty Affiliate: Computation & Neural Systems, Medical Engineering, BioEngineering|

• Address: Mail Code 104-44, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125
• Phone: +01 (626) 395-4139; FAX: +01 (626) 583-4963
• Email: jwb at robotics dot caltech dot edu
• Admin: Ms. Sonya Lincoln; (626) 395-3385, lincolns at caltech dot edu

Current Research Projects & Interests

My research is divided between traditional robotics research, and collaborations with neuroscientists to develop technology for paralyzed nervous systems. More information can be found at the Burdick Research Group Homepage

Robotics Research

• We competed in the DARPA Robotic Challenge as part of Team RoboSimian
• With JPL, we are part of The Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance (RCTA).
  • Robust Caging Graphs
  • Mobile Manipulation
• Moball
• Axel; a minimalist rover for extreme planetary terrains (Axel Internal Wiki Page);
• We competed as part of the JPL team in the DARPA-ARMS program.

NeuroEngineering

• High density epidural spinal stimulation (joint work with V.R. Edgerton)

Quick Links

• My Google Calendar Page;
• Reading Groups: CDS 270: Verification of Hybrid Systems; Caging; Neuro;
• Caltech;ME; CMS; CDS; MedE; CNS; BE; IST; CNSE;
• CIT Research Admin;

Teaching

• ME 115(a,b): Intro to Kinematics and Robotics. (older):
• CDS 110(b): Intro to Control
• Old ME/CS 131,132;ME 132 (2011); Robotic Navigation
• CDS 270: Manipulation & Grasping;

On-Line Publications/Catalogs

• Caltech Library: CIT Library; WebCLAS; New Matrials; CIT Theses;
• On-Line: arXiv; CiteSeer; DOE EPrint; MathSciNet (math pub. data base); AMS Preprints; Robotics Publication Data Base;
• Library of Congress; Bibliofind (new/used/rare book search engine);

Handy References

• Table of Laplace Transforms; Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List; Planet Math; Tortoise SVN Doc.s;

Conferences, Workshops, Proposals

• ICRA 2016
• Microsoft Conf. Management Software;

• Navigation: Google, Bing, AnyWho;
• News: CNN; NY Times; Yahoo News;
• Online TV: NHK; Al Jazeera;
• Financial News: CNBC; MarketWatch; Yahoo;
• Financial Data: FinViz; CFTC graphs;
• My Old Links Page; YT;

• Weather: CNN; Intellicast; Weather.com; Weather Underground; LAX Radar;
• Maps: Google; Bing Maps; Mapquest;
• Travel: Hotel.com; FlightAware; AirFareWatchDog;CheapTickets; Expedia; Travelocity; Kayak;
• MetaLevel: WhichBudget; FlyLowCostAirlines; SkyScanner; MoMondo; WeGo;
• Travel: GORP; RoughGuides; HistoryChannel; BeachHouse; HomeAway Rentals; VacationHomeRentals;
• Local: Pasadena Weekly;

Robotics Projects & Sites

• Public Data Sets: Raw Seeds; Willow Garage; 3D Laser Data sets; TUM Kitchen Data Set; Aass-Loop dataset; Freiburg Metallic Sphere RGBD data
• Online Conf. Materials: 4th SLAM Summer School; ICRA 2010 Wkshop on Safe Navigation in Dynamics Environments; Formal Methods for Robotics;
• Online Courses/Tutorials: Locomotion Seminar Course;
• Mechanisms: ParalleMIC; McCarthy\'s Software/Textbook; Zhong You\'s \'\'Motion Structures\'\'; Catalog of Symmetric Tensegrities; Hoberman Assoc.s; Cornell Reuleaux Collection;
• Manipulation: IEEE/RAS MobileManipulation; J. Hopkins (elastic mechanisms);
• Hyper-Redundant: Peristaltic Crawler;
• Aerial/MAV: IEEE MAV; Prioria Maverick; (Festo Smartbird: Festo; IEEE Spectrum; TED Talk); Japanese Flying Sphere (Another Sphere video); U. Maryland Cyclocopter;
• Quadrotors: MikroKopter Project; XUfo; XUfo shop; AR Drone (cheap hobby quad); DroneHacks (open source for AR drone); AR Drone Flyers;
• Underwater/marine: AUV links; Harbor Wing Technologies (robotic sailboat); AirHacks.Org;
• Bio: Argo Medical Technologies (Rehab. Exoskeleton), Berkeley Bionics (TedX presentation); SnakeRobots;
• Agricultural: Spider Robot Lawn Mower; Agricultrral Robotics Portal; Harvest Automation; Robotic Harvesting; Agrobot; Wikipedial AgRobot Page; FieldRobot.dk (Hortibot);Ag FieldRobot Contest; Hortibot;
• Personal Robotics: Intel HERB;
• Intelligent Transportation: Save U project (pedestrian safety);
• AndroidWorld\n* Dan Roe Sculptural Robotics

Opensource

• Yocto (open source embedded dev. environment);
• ROS; CMU Personal Robotics ROS; CHOMP Motion Planner;
• USNA MATLAB kit for iRobot Create;
• 6D Slam@sourceforge; Fast Appearance Based mapping; Robotics MATLAB Toolbox; Chai3D (haptics); KiteLab; Peter Corke\'s tool boxes; GATMO (moving object SLAM); 3D scale space;
• OpenRave (main); OpenRAVE; OpenGrasp;
• ASTER high-res digital earth maps;
• LaValle Book: Dubins Curves; Reeds-Shepp; Balkcom-Mason Curves;

Robotics Events, News, Community

• Arrick Robot News Page;
• IEEE-RAS; LabRobotics;
• Robotics On-line; Robotics Trends;
• ICORR Home
• RobotsEvents.com, TheRobotReport.com
• Robot-Dreams, GoRobotics.Net;
• Yahoo Robotics Page; RoboCentral;
• AndroidWorld;
• Intercontinental Driving Challenge;
• Autonomous Robots Blog;
• Let\'s Make Robots;

Robotics Competitions

• IGCV

Robots in Fiction & Cinema

• Cinematic Robots @DavidZondy;
• Robot Film Festival;

Robot Hardware/Mechanisms Links

• Robot Manufacturers: OC Robotics (video of their snake in action); Schunk;
• Research Bots: HiBot (Hirose lab spin-off); Adept Mobile Robots;
• RobotShop;
• Hobby/Education Robots: Robot Market Place; FingerTech (wheels); LynxMotion, VexRobotics; RoboWorld; SGBotic; ActiveRobots; LegoMindstorm;
  • VCS Hobbies, RoboBrothers, RoboPhilo; Innovative Experiments (Thai); Images Sci. Instrument (parts);
  • Robotics Connection,AcroName Robotics; RoboticsGroup; Trossen; WrightHobbies; Pololu; HVW Tech; RobotStoreHK; RoboKits.com.in; Innovati;
• RC Technology: Hitec RCD; EnduranceRC; Tamayi USA, Mecoa(lots of RC engines);Airborne Models; SpeedKom; HobbyPartz; RC Boyz;
• RobotWorx (used robots); SuperDroidRobots;
• Plastic Pals Robots;

Mechanisms

• Mechanizmalar (mechanism animations);

Servos/Controllers/Electronics

• Sparkfun (many cool items);
• GoogolTech; OceanControls (quite extensive); RobotPower (high power speed control);p QKits; RobotCraft; WatterOtt Elec. (Ger.); VanTec (Motor Controller), GoTronic; Lawicel (sweden); ThaiEasyElec;
• NuBotics(encoders/controllers); NanoCore 12 (microcontrollers); MaximumRobotics
• VFD: DealersElectric (var. freq. drives/motors);

Embedded Computing/Interface Hardware

• MicroControllerShop; CoolComponentsUK; SunSpot;\n* Parallax (Stamp/Propeller chips); BasicX
• Aduino; CharmedLabs (Qwerk mini-PC); FusionControl;
• Mbed Microcontroller (ARM processor); Pachube (networked sensors)

Sensing

• Metria Innovations (3D optical tracking sensor)
• CH Robotics(mini IMU/orientation);
• Sensors Portal;
• Probyte.Fi sensors; IDM store (Taiwan); GigaPan Systems (pan/tilt for Digital cameras)
• SunRise Auto(Force/Torque sensors);
• Microstrain intertial sensors;

Motors/Actuators

• Castle (brushless & ESCs); Firgelli (linear servos);
• EOL Surplus motors; NewScale (squiggle motors); SurplusCenter; BaneBots;
• PlayRobot (Taiwan) Tank Treads;

Software Resources

• Karto Robotics (SRI motion planner/SLAM)
• Robot Basic, RobotC

GPU Computing

• Hardware: Nvidia TESLA; SuperMicro 4Tesla Case;
• Software: Nvidia GPU software dev.; Nvidia CUDA Zone;CUDA for GPU;
  • Jacket MATLAB Plug-In; CUDA MATLAB FFT plug-in
  • GPU Sig. Proc.;GPULib; GPU-MAT
  • OpenCL Tutorial Slides;
  • GPU Molecular Computation;
• GPU convolutional Network;

• Product Design Notebook;

• Linear Components: PBC Linear; 80/20; LM 76;