Joel Burdick's Wiki

From Joel Burdick's Wiki

Welcome to my personal wiki. I use this wiki to store links to sites of research/techical/academic interest, and to keep files relevant to my personal research and my research collaborations. This wiki is still very much under construction, and likely to stay that way permanently.

Current Research Projects & Interests

My research is divided between traditional robotics research, and collaborations with neuroscientists to develop technology for paralyzed nervous systems.

Robotics Research

Axel; a minimalist rover for extreme planetary terrains
Robot Motion Planning in dynamic cluttered environments
Ultra-Wide Band Radar tracking of humans
Activity Recognition
Grasping and Mobile Manipulation (DARPA Study Group)

NeuroEngineering

High density epidural spinal stimulation (joint work with Y.C. Tai and V.R. Edgerton)
Neural Prosthetics: Autonomously positioned electrode arrays (joint work with R.A. Andersen and Y.C. Tai)

Quick Links

Teaching

ME 72(a,b): Engineering Design Laboratory
ME 115(a,b): Introduction to Kinematics and Robotics
ME/CS 131: Advanced Robotics--Navigation
ME 132

General Research Links

On-Line Publications/Catalogs

Library: CIT Library; New Matrials; WebCLAS;
CiteSeer; DOE EPrint; MathSciNet (math pub. data base); AMS Preprints;
Library of Congress; Bibliofind (new/used/rare book search engine);

Conferences, Workshops, Proposals

Mobiligence 2009;
- hotel: Access Map;
ICRA 2010;

Robotics Links

Robotics Projects & Sites

Public Data Sets: Raw Seeds; Willow Garage; 3D Laser Data sets; TUM Kitchen Data Set;
Online Conf. Materials: 4th SLAM Summer School;
OpenSource: 6D Slam@sourceforge; Fast Appearance Based mapping; Robotics MATLAB Toolbox; Chai3D (haptics);
Mechanisms: ParalleMIC; McCarthy's Software/Textbook; Zhong You's Motion Structures; Catalog of Symmetric Tensegrities; Hoberman Assoc.s;
Aerial/MAV: IEEE MAV;
Underwater: AUV links;
Argo Medical Technologies (Rehab. Exoskeleton), Berkeley Bionics
Intelligent Transportation: Save U project (pedestrian safety);
AndroidWorld
Dan Roe Sculptural Robotics

Robotics Events, News, Community

Basic Mechanical Engineering/Design Resources

Low Cost/Used/Hobby Machine Tools

Find-A-Machine; TechSpex (compares machines); SouthernTool;
Lathemaster (small mills/lathes) Hobby Shop Machinist; American Machine Tools; Roland Mills; MachineToolsWarehouse;
IH CNC (nice small mill); TownLabs (table top 3,4 axis); CNC Masters; FlashCut CNC; TorMach; Mini-Lathe; Mini-Mill; Sherline; Micro-Mark; KT Marketing; Hobby CNC; Torchmate; MaxNC; MikiMech; Enco(small machines);
'Routers: CNC Router Source (good CNC controller tutorials, links); SolSylva (router plans, guides); ProBotix; BuildYourCNC; Joe's CNC; IMWsrv (cheap CNC router); MarchantDice (Router parts);
MetalWorking: TinMan Technologies'
Wood: PennStateInd.; Rockler Woodworking
Tools: DiscountTools; Tools-n-gizmos; CuttingToolSource; Glacern (mill tools); The Engineers Shop; Wholesale Tools For Less; AnyTime Tools;
EMachineShop (online machining service);

Electronics: HomeShopCNC Inc.; PMDX (CNC/Motion Control Boards); MotionTek (motors/servos); CampbellDesigns; MachMotion
CAD/CAM: Mach3; Online G,M code tutorial; DolphinSystems; GSimple(CAM); MultiCam Mill; CNC Shop Software;SimpleNC; NC-Plot (simulates CNC build); 3D Model Club (3D decorative models); VizArtOnLine; Easy DNC;
OnLine Tutorials: Virtual Machine Shop; OnLine GCode course;
Forums: HomeGrown CNC; CNC Forum; HomeMachinest; Practical Machinest; CNC Info.; Yahoo CAD/CAM/EDM forum; CNC Cookbook; MachineToolHelp;
- DIY CNC blog (lots of good links); CNC-CI Links page (good software links);
- Comparison of Hobby CNC Mills; Hobbyist 3D Printing/Milling;
Ebay: ReliableTools(Irwindale);Wheeler Machine Sales; PM Machine Sales; Rohner Machinery; American Machinery Liquidators; QualityMachineTools;
Auctions: AAG; GreatAmerican; BidSpotter; Tauber-Arons; Ostrin & Ostrin; Thomas Auction;Go-Dove; SurplusRecord;

Other Numerical Machine Tools

Water Jets: WaterJets.Org; Yahoo WaterJets Group;

Pneumatics/Hydraulics

Festo;

Fixtures/Clamps/Vises

DestaCo(clamps, grippers);
SeaCatch (under load release);

Basic Mechanical Componenents

Raw Material

Industrial Metal Sales; Metal-By-The-Foot;

Engineering MarketPlaces

Global Spec; Zycon;

Systems Engineering/Signal Processing

Vision/Graphics

OpenCV: SourceForge; Docs Wiki; Yahoo Forum;
VisionBib.com; Aravind's Links(graphics/image); Stylized Depiction in Computer Graphics; Laurence Maloney (visual perception);

Spectral Graph Theory

Signal Processing

Compressive Sensing: Compressive Sensing 2.0; Duke Comp. Sens. Wkshp;
Spectral Processing: Multi-Taper Tutorial;
Clustering: Clustering & multivariate analysis software; Murtagh's Multivariate Analysis Software Page; Correspondence Analysis Software;
People: Don Johnson; Collected Works, Claude Shannon; Robert Nowak;
review of projection pursuit; speech analysis tutorial;

Wavelets

Resources: searchable wavelet bibliography; multi-wavelet paper links Wavelet NetCare; WaveThresh biblio;Xwavelet Package;
Tutorials: Wavelet overview (based on Mallat book);
People: Dave Donoho; Donald Percival; Brani Vidakovic;

Diffusion Wavelets

Maggioni's publication page; ">[more diffusion wavelets; Diffusion Wavelet @Yale; Sridhar Mahadevan's pub.s;

Machine Learning

Code: HMM Matlab Toolbox;
Machine Learning Workshop 2009; Andrew Moore's Data Mining Tutorials; Machine Learning Blog;
Mikhail Belkin; Glenn Shafer;
Caltech CS 101.2 (Active Learning); Maggioni MDP Page;
AutonLab@CMU;

Probability/Statistics

Tutorials: Virtual Lab in Prob./Stats.; Monte Carlo Methods; HMM tutorial;
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (on-line book);
Resources: Gauss resources(on-line statistical software);

Control

On-line LMI course; Multiple Hypothesis Testing Code;

UWB Radar Links

Urban RF Sensing

Stuff goes here

BioEngineering/NeuroEngineering Links

Spinal Cord

human motion/amputees; > Sretavan lab (UCSF )(neural injury repair); ETH Sensory-Motor Systems Lab (Lokomat, etc.);

Neural Coding/Processing

Salk Abstractrs on Neural Coding; Tony Zador Publications on Neural Coding;

BioMechanics/BioBehavior

Locomotion Anatomy; Encyclopedia Brittanica Locomotion Page;
Boids (links to Boids-like flocking);

Temporary Links

These are links that have not yet been organized, or that are needed only on a temporary basis.

Machine Auctions

11/17/09: Great American (Monarch EE lathes, saws);
GoDove Auction (HP Power Supplies);
11/19/09: (closing) Go-Dove on-line Machine Auction (Fadals);
12/03/09: (closing) GoDove on-line (lots of new CNC);
12/03/09: (closing) GoDove Visteon on-line (Monarch, Hardinge, Adept, Power supplies);

YouTube video on OpenSource CNC;
HeliosRay (solar water heaters);
Hardinge HLV: @lathes.co.uk; Yahoo Hardinge Group; On-Line HLV-H Manual; OnLine HLVH Schematics;
Hardinge HLV: UK Rebuild Story; Rebuild Story; Spindle Replacement;
Hardinge HLV Parts: Centroid CNC Retrofit; Babin HLV Rebuild;
Useful Thread on PracticalMachinist
Clever minimilast "penguin" robot YouTube video; The Penguin Robot Kit;
blimp: Airship Simon; hybrid blimp project; Blimp Control Paper; Ostrowski Blimp Paper; BlimpGuys Projects Page; StanfordBlimp paper; ICRA07 Blimp; Blimp Control Thesis; Blimp Paper;
ME 72 Switches: Pal Pad Switches; Joggle Switch; Joggle Switch Seller; Amazon Jelly Bean Switch;
Books to buy?: Machine Shop Trade Secrets;

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